This month, a man in his 80s living in Itabashi-ku, Tokyo was deceived by a fraudulent phone call pretending to be his son for about 30 million yen in cash.
In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating as a fraud case and calling attention to the fact that there have been five cases of fraud in which more than 30 million yen has been deceived by special fraud since entering this year.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, on the 25th of this month, a man in his 80s living in Itabashi Ward said, "I have invested in my company's money without permission. It may be a criminal case or a trial. There was a phone call.
In addition, the man who was told that he had to fill in the money he had spent was deceived by believing this story and handing him about 30 million yen in cash to a man in his thirties who visited his house.
That evening, the Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the case as a man contacting his son and discovering the damage.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, in Tokyo, there have been five cases of deception of more than 30 million yen by special fraud such as oleore fraud since entering this year, and the total damage amounted to about 1.7 billion yen. It means that there is.
The Metropolitan Police Department suspects fraud when talking about money over the phone, even if it claims to be a family member, and calls on them to hang up and consult with someone close to them.