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SandyBeachHeaven
Why go to the police after you hang up? You would be stuck for hours with questions about your birthday, why you are here etc.
Sven Asai
No problem. Not much money for me includes having no money at all for any scammers. lol
noriahojanen
The present-day economic crimes of this sort are highly organized and sophisticated. Many perpetrators are involved yet dispersed at different remote locations (across the country or even abroad) and separate tasks being done independently, without knowledge of other collaborators. Police find it harder to identify and catch them en masse.
Though rich seniors tend to be primary targets, those who think of themselves as being too smart to sucker can also be easy preys.
Yubaru
Sorry, but this is just young and dumb. With all the news and what not about scammers in the news, she has just got to have her head in the sand!
Mark
DoCoMo, Softbank, and AU bare responsibility for allowing scammers to use it's network and not being able or track them, plus ignoring the fact that people are being scammed by their customers.
snowymountainhell
You’re correct @noriahoanen, well-phrased and thought-provoking: “The present-day economic crimes of this sort are highly organized and sophisticated.” Many kinds of fraud in Japan: some petty; many on a grand-scale and their networks are extensive. Many times they involve government officials taking advantage of ‘loopholes’. COVID was an excuse for many to profit illegally; and “legally”(within ‘grey areas’ of the ambiguous laws, policies and guidelines.) Officials routinely are exposed and claim “I did nothing wrong.” until they are forced by the populace to apologize. Then, all is ‘swept aside’ and forgotten. Police can do little to follow up if prosecutors are unwilling to prosecute.
mmwkdw
Whats happened to Common Sense these days ?
ushosh123
The scam doesn't sound sophisticated at all . Just mass phone call / email baits to target market. Isn't that as simple it gets?
gogogo
Your friendly Yakuza at work.