K?chi, a Chinese student in his 20s, has been swindled out of 1.94 million yen (96,000 Yuan) in a telecommunications scam targeting Chinese citizens.
According to Kyodo News and other media on June 9, K?chi Prefecture police said that in late March this year, the victim received a call from a self-described “Staff member of the Chinese embassy in Japan”, “It is a crime for a Chinese citizen to use your credit card during immigration clearance,” it said. Since then, fraudsters posing as Shanghai police have used chat software to conduct remote interrogations, threatening to pay RMB100,000 bail. The victim purchased 20 grams of gold bars, sent them to a designated Chinese address, and conducted six international remittances, with a total loss of about 1.94 million yen.
As recently as May, a Chinese student in Yamanashi Prefecture suffered losses of Y2M in a fraud involving fake police, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. The victim was a college student in his 20s who received a call from a self-described Chinese police, “A large number of airline tickets purchased in your name were involved in an international fraud case and caused the frightened death of an old Chinese woman, requiring a deposit of 10 million yen,” the victim claimed, hand over to the door withdrawal of“Chinese police” 200 million yen in cash. A week later, the other side again asked for 100 million yen, the victim noticed the anomaly immediately after the police. In order to avoid Stomp the grass to scare the snake, the victim pretended to cooperate with the suspect. When the other party came to withdraw money again, the police arrested him on the spot for attempted fraud.
Due to the frequent occurrence of such cases, the Japan national police agency called on Chinese citizens living in Japan to be vigilant and produced anti-fraud posters to be posted in such administrative agencies as the national entry administration and the regional police station. Many Japanese universities are also using their official websites to urge foreign students to be more vigilant. The website of the Association of Private Universities of Japan has collated common means of wire fraud, for example, “A bank account or cell phone in your name has been used for a crime,”“There is a package sent to you in the country for a crime,”“An arrest warrant has been issued for you,”“A deposit is required for the appearance of a victim because of you,” and so on, and demanded high sums of money.
The Chinese embassy in Japan also issued a reminder in late May of the case of wire fraud, saying that fraudsters often pretend to be employees of government agencies such as the“Embassy,”“Public security,”“Procuratorate,” and Japan’s“Bureau of Immigration,” to commit fraud, however, Chinese embassies and consulates abroad will not inform the parties involved by phone, nor will they ask for money transfer or download communication software. Any request for“Confidentiality” and“Money transfer to prove innocence” is considered fraud When you receive a suspicious phone call, you should hang up immediately, keep calm and check with regular channels.