"Civil lawsuit filed" lies postcard 100 million yen deceived January 28 19:08
A woman in her 80s in Seto, Aichi, Japan, who received a postcard saying that a civil action had been filed, was tricked into removing over 150 million yen in cash for the cost of withdrawing the trial. Police are calling attention to similar postcards, the highest ever for special fraud in Aichi Prefecture.
According to the police, in October of last year, a postcard stating "Announcement of the final notification of a lawsuit concerning consumption charges" was sent to the home of a woman living in her 80s living alone in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture.
When the woman calls the number on the postcard, a man who calls himself a lawyer comes out and says, "I need a deposit to pay the court to withdraw the lawsuit" or "I will send the young people if I do not pay 3 million yen That's right. "
When the woman who believed the story sent cash by courier to the indicated address, more cash was required, and about 154 million yen in a total of 154 million yen over 10 times in about 3 months until around 9th of this month I was sent in and deceived.
The woman was unable to contact her, and she contacted the Ministry of Justice directly and found that it was a scam.
According to the police, women often send tens of millions of cash at a time, and were instructed to write "documents" on courier slips.
Police are calling attention to similar postcards, the highest ever for special fraud in Aichi Prefecture.