An international scam group aiming for marriage
A woman in her 50s who met on a matching site with a man who named an American soldier dispatched to Syria was deceived with over 20 million yen in cash. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that an international group is repeating scams aimed at Japanese women who want to marry.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, a woman in her 50s who lives in Tokyo, in March, said a man named an American soldier dispatched to Syria that she met on a matching site. I wanted it. "
After that, a woman named a delivery company told me that “customs costs etc. are necessary for diamond transportation” and that she transferred 23.20 million yen in cash to a designated account.
Women have never met American soldiers or men who claim delivery companies, and exchanges were made via smartphone apps and emails.
After that, contact was lost and the woman reported damage to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested three men of Cameroon nationality on suspicion of receiving criminal proceeds, all of which lived in Tokyo Katsushika Ward, etc., which was the account holder of the bank account.
There were over 187 million yen in transfers from accounts that seemed to be multiple Japanese women, but most of them had already been withdrawn.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the flow of funds, assuming that international groups are repeatedly fraudulently aiming for Japanese women who want to marry.