Police warn public about surge in scam calls using police station number on caller ID

Law enforcement officials currently do not know how the phone numbers are being faked on caller IDs or where the calls are originating from.

Seriously? How can the police not understand how phone systems work. Many VoIP systems allow you to set your phone number. A simple google search could tell you this.

These are the people that are suppose to stop the scam, but they don't even understand how it is happening.

Things are becoming more and more broken by the day. Look out for even more restrictions and requirements on using anything and everything on your phone. It was not supposed to be this way.

A police department official is urging people to not continue talking, but to ask the caller, 'I would like to call you back, so please tell me your name, department and extension number,

Just say hi to increase phone bill later.

Scammers are more & more clever. Same stuffs happen in hk, (eek sewer). after ?? years all our gov calls/sms now all preceded by #no.. not perfect but smartphone scam % reduced. the solution is out there. But be careful gals and guys, the smarter the phone, the smarter the scammer.

So where, exactly, do the scammers tell victims to send their money? Maybe that would be easier to trace for the keystone cops than the fake caller ID!

If the scammers haven't been caught and are using a Tokyo police phone number, the scammers could very well be members of the police. It is,from what I've seen in based on true story movies, harder to catch corrupt cops than regular criminals. And, while it is nice for the police to offer futile advice, it does kind of make them seem like they don't want to work on catching anyone but just want the problem to go away.

Things in Japan is becoming more shaken everyday. The scams does not surprise me at all. There are a lot of gypsies running around now day doing a lot of scams. I was looking at the news the other day and saw how the Turks beat a Japanese guy in Saitama. It was a culture clash the Japanese guy tried to correct the Turk but the Turk was not having it, he wanted to do things as he learned in his country. There are 3,000 Turks living in Japan and more immigrants are arriving. Its going to be interesting to see how Japan responds with the influx of new arrivals who are hell bent on doing things the way they are use to doing them in the countries they came from.

There are 3,000 Turks living in Japan and more immigrants are arriving.

There are 3 million Turks living in Germany with a request from the government. hey are integrated and part of German society. Many of whom are descendants of "guest workers" who came to Germany in the 1960s and 70s.

Law enforcement officials currently do not know how the phone numbers are being faked on caller IDs or where the calls are originating from.

This could of course just be speculation on the part of the writer of the article as the source quoted is not being identified.

There are 3,000 Turks living in Japan and more immigrants are arriving. Its going to be interesting to see how Japan responds with the influx of new arrivals who are hell bent on doing things the way they are use to doing them in the countries they came from.

It remains to be seen, that there are a lot of tensions between Germans and Turks, and it has worsened over the years, it was already bad when I was a kid, the Turks that do well are often the ones that were born there, and identify as German-Turkish, the more difficult ones are the Turks who identify as Muslim first and are fanatics about their religion. Let's see how Japan can deal with this.

It's baffling how some people have tried turning this thread into an anti-foreign route and claiming it's being done by "Gypsies" (couldn't even bring himself to capitalize it) and Turkish immigrants.

I have had the same phone number for 25 years and the number of fake calls (not scams, probably, but just phone calls to see if you answer so that they can mark your number "active" on sales' lists, I think) has gone out of control over the past two years alone. It's actually to the point where I have not answered my phone once in more than a year, unless it's a Line call or similar video call through other apps under a name I know. I figure if it's something serious, they'll leave a message, and most messages I've gotten, few as they are, were from wrong numbers or Robocalls. When I see the red circle on my smartphone indicating I missed a call I look at the number and it's either Tokyo, some remote area of Japan, the police (twice), or it even says it's from other nations like Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, etc. Only once did I answer, about a year and a half ago, and there was some weird circus music for about 10 seconds and then the call was cut. From that day on I was getting several calls a day from all sorts of numbers.

So, just don't answer your phone.

Seriously? How can the police not understand how phone systems work. Many VoIP systems allow you to set your phone number. A simple google search could tell you this.

The VOIP provider have a duty to monitor and restrict CID number. And the VOIP provider has to go through either NTT or one of the NCC's (KDDI, Rakutun, Softbank, Colt, ARTERIA, etc.) to get connected to the phone network. That interconnect should be filtering obvious fake traffic.