An elderly Japanese woman who was conned out of 50 million yen (US$345,000) by a gang of fraudsters ended up joining the racketeers who fleeced her because they treated her “kindly”.
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On May 16, police in Fukuoka city, southwestern Japan, said that they had arrested 72-year-old Kumi Kawauchiyama on suspicion of fraud.
The police said she helped a scam gang to defraud 12 million yen out of an 85-year-old woman.
The unidentified victim received a phone call from a member of the gang posing as a police officer who told her she needed to deposit all her assets into a specified account to prove her innocence.
The scammers further instructed her to go to the bank with Kawauchiyama, and tell her bank that Kawauchiyama was her daughter and the owner of the account.
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