3 May, 2014
Amount of money stolen via phone fraud soaring | The Japan Times
The number of reported cases in which fraudsters use the phone to trick people into parting with cash continues to increase.
According to National Police Agency sources, the amount of cash swindled this way in the first three months of the year soared 41 percent from a year earlier to roughly ¥13 billion. That outstripped the pace seen in 2013, when the annual total came to a record high ¥48.7 billion.
As such phone scams tend to gain momentum in and after April, the agency is calling on potential victims to talk with their family members about prevention measures during the current Golden Week holiday period.
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