Japanese police arrest 6 men over scam from Vietnam
The Japanese suspects allegedly conspired to defraud a woman in her 20s in Yamaguchi Prefecture of ¥1 million earlier this year.
Yokohama police have apprehended six Japanese men, ranging in age from 22 to 58, for their alleged participation in a telephone scam originating from a base in Vietnam. These individuals, including Shunji Seto, 55, and Seiya Abe, 28, were transferred from Vietnam where local authorities apprehended them in June. The suspects reportedly conspired with unidentified individuals to defraud a woman in her 20s from Yamaguchi Prefecture of ¥1 million on May 22.
The scammers posed as police officers, informing the victim that a check was necessary as she was suspected of being part of a fraud group. The six are believed to have entered Vietnam from Cambodia and are linked to over 150 fraud cases primarily in the Kanto and Chubu regions of Japan, where they allegedly stole a total of ¥500 million.
The scam operation was uncovered after a Japanese individual fled the base to the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi this year.
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