A company employee in his 50s in Yokohama was scammed out of approximately 137 million yen by men claiming to be police officers. The police are investigating this as a special case of fraud, and are urging people to be wary of calls demanding cash.
A man was actually sending a package to his home country, and a man who answered the phone on his behalf, claimed to be a Japanese police officer. The man who believed the story was defrauded by transferring approximately137 million yen to the specified account 24 times until February this year.