Ibaraki Police warn against fake warnings by the police soranews24.com

At about 4 p.m. on 19 September, the doorbell of an 85-year-old woman in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture rang.
Standing at the entrance was a man claiming to be a police officer who was canvassing the neighborhood and warning residences of an ore ore sagi going around.
He gave the woman a card with a phone number to call in the event she receive a suspicious phone call, and left.
She agreed and sent 2.5 million yen (US$23,000) to an account in Tokyo expecting it to be used as bait then returned.
It was then that the crushing reality came down on her and she went to the real police to file a report, with losses totaling 32.5 million yen ($299,000).