Ibaraki issues warnings against fake police officers after elderly woman conned out of money japantoday.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 4 years, 4 months ago

At about 4 p.m. on Sept 19, 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.
She agreed and sent 2.5 million yen to an account in Tokyo expecting it to be used as bait then returned.
They remained in contact and the “officer” withdrew a total of about 28 million yen from her bank accounts using the cards she sent.
Readers of the news online were filled with amazement and disgust over this bold cheating of an elderly woman out of her money.