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Way is made clever, damage becomes aggravated
Amount of damage by gIt's me" frauds reached 1.5 billion yen, increased rapidly twice or more
By JCPRESS
1310 damage of the scams, which have been coined gOre ore" (gIt's me") frauds, in June occurred according to the summary of the National Police Agency, and the amount of damage exceeded 1.5 billion yen.
The amount of damage in June has increased to twice or more compared with 620 million yen in March this year.
Damage is gradually made large amount of money.
There are as usual a lot of swindles that pretend the private settlement money of traffic accident payment and the repayment of the consumer's loan.
Moreover, the way of the swindle is made clever further.
For instance, the criminal calls while camouflaging it to the policeman and the lawyer, and gets money by fraud.
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Way gPhishing Scam" that transmits mail that camouflages bank and net auction management company, tells a lie, "Our company changed system. Please register member information again", and cheats of individual information like address, name, credit card number, and password number.
Criminals order the commodity by the net mail order, and withdraw one's money by using swindled information in the online bank.
(Details are published in "question of the living" corner of the issue on the Japan consumer newspaper June 15. )
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