Do you interact with "recipient" on "disappearing SNS"? Special fraud group July 10 18:32

It was discovered in an interview with investigators that a man who had dispatched "recipients" to get a cash card to the home of an elderly person who had been tricked by a fraudulent phone call was arrested. Approximately 20 facial photographs taken with a driver's license in hand are left on the man's smartphone, and the Metropolitan Police Department is examining it as recruited recipients.

According to a person involved in the investigation, the person arrested was Daiki Ishimori (25), an unemployed person living in Kita-ku, Tokyo, who withdraws money using a cash card deceived from an elderly person on a fraudulent phone call in January this year. There is a suspicion that he dispatched a "child" to steal millions of yen in cash.

Ishimori was arrested for repeatedly dispatching a “recipient” to receive a cash card to an elderly person who pretended to be an employee of the Financial Services Agency.

According to the research conducted so far, when recruiting “recipient” applicants via the Internet and dispatching them to the home of an elderly person, a message is deleted after a certain period of time. It is supposed to be.

According to investigators, boys in their teens and men in their 20s dispatched as "children" have been arrested.

Furthermore, about 20 face photographs taken with Ishimori's smartphone with a driver's license etc in hand are left on the smartphone, and the Metropolitan Police Department investigated that there was a suspicion of the recruited ``receiver'' etc. I am.

"Disappearing SNS" Telegram

According to a person involved in the investigation, the man who had dispatched the "Receiver" interacted with the "Kakeko" group making a fraudulent phone call and instructing the "Receiver" to dispatch to the deceived elderly's home. It seems that they used different SNS properly. It means that we used the SNS called "WeChat" which is often used in China in the exchange with the "Kakeko" group.

Then, when sending the "receiver" to the home of an elderly person fooled by a lie, an SNS called "Telegram" was used, which has the function of deleting the exchanged messages after a certain period of time. about it. So-called "disappearing SNS", the police point out that there are many cases of crimes.

Through “Telegram”, members of the scam group will be informed of the home address of senior citizens and the timing of visits, and exchange detailed information such as bank account PINs, the number of family members, and “impersonation” given by themselves. was doing. In addition, when using a taxi, specific precautions were given, such as intentionally telling a different address, such as a hospital near home, to get off.

Take a photo of your face with your "certificate of identity".

According to a person involved in the investigation, when he analyzed the smartphone of the man who had dispatched the "Receiver", he was able to see a facial photograph taken with a "certificate of identity" such as a driver's license in his hand. It means that about 20 people were left.

In the special fraud group, there are cases where the “recipient” who received cash or cash card at home of the elderly person runs away as it is, so when applying for “recipient”, the name, address, date of birth, etc. It is believed that he was trying to prevent his escape by having him submit a facial photograph taken with the stated “certificate of identity” in his hand.

The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that about 20 people, who had left their facial photographs, are suspected of being "receivers" recruited by the group.