Niigata prefectural police roused watching out so that no cheat of a malignant trader who aimed at the earthquake victim for the inhabitants of the prefecture in the stricken area on October 24.
Prefectural police warned, "No do cheat of the telephone that took advantage of the earthquake".
In the Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) Earthquake that had occurred in 1995, various crimes occurred in refuges.