Beware the new Corona scam! March 9 13:33
I heard that a lie call was being made in Tokyo, saying, "A subsidy has been issued for countermeasures against the new coronavirus and a bank account must be registered." This is the first time that such a suspicious call has been confirmed in Tokyo, and the Metropolitan Police have called attention to this as a new fraud that took advantage of the fear of the new coronavirus.
On the 7th, a man calling himself an employee of the Labor Bureau at his home in his forties in Toshima-ku, Tokyo said, "A subsidy has been issued for measures against the new coronavirus. A mask will also be sent." .
The man who claims to be a staff member was told that he needed to register a bank account for the procedure, and was instructed to go to an ATM nearby and contact a phone number alleged to belong to a bank representative.
The man called, as instructed, a phone number that was alleged to belong to a bank official, but did not know how to operate the ATM, so he called a police officer on patrol and found that the phone was a scam. about it.
The Metropolitan Police Department has since attempted to have the men transfer cash.
This is the first time that such a suspicious call has been confirmed in Tokyo, and the Metropolitan Police have called attention to this as a new fraud that took advantage of the fear of the new coronavirus.