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Yomiuri Shimbun file photo Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
The Yomiuri Shimbun
12:32 JST, April 16, 2024
A man in his 70s in Tokyo was defrauded of about ¥140 million in a social media scam in which a person pretending to be a celebrity offered him investment opportunities, the Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.
The police are investigating this as a fraud case.
The man received messages on social media, such as “I will teach you investment techniques” and “You will definitely make a profit” in October, the police said. After he replied, a person claiming to be an assistant instructed him to download a smartphone application. He remitted a total of about ¥140 million in more than 10 transfers to the instructed account by early this month, the police said.
