A woman in her 70s living in Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, received a false call from a man claiming to be a police officer saying that her bank account was being used for money laundering. Interviews with people involved in the investigation revealed that the scam was misused and more than 200 million yen was defrauded.
Police are investigating this as a special case of fraud.
According to investigators, last year a woman in her 70s in Matsudo received a false phone call from a man claiming to be a police officer saying, ``My bank account was being used for money laundering and I needed to transfer the money.'' there was.
The woman, who believed her story, opened a new internet banking account at the man's request, had him transfer money from his bank account to that account, and was also forced to purchase crypto assets.
Afterwards, it was discovered that the crypto assets were missing, and the woman was defrauded of more than 200 million yen.
It is believed that the ID and password needed to handle crypto assets were given during a telephone conversation.
The woman contacted the police this month.
This is the worst amount of damage from a special scam known in Chiba Prefecture in the past five years, and the police are proceeding with the investigation, suspecting that the call about money is a scam, not following the caller's instructions, and consulting with the police or family. I am calling on you to do so.