52 Million Yen Disappears! A Woman in Her 70s Receives Fraudulent Phone Calls From the "National Civil Servant Special Investigation Unit" and Others Claiming She Is a Suspect and that They Want to Investigate the Money in Her account... She Ends up Transferring Cash a Total of 56 Times over Nearly a Year. <Sapporo, Hokkaido>

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An elderly resident of Nagayo Town, Nagasaki Prefecture, was defrauded of 12 million yen in a fake police scam, where a man impersonating a police officer or prosecutor instructed the victim to have a large sum of cash stolen from his property. According to the prefectural police, in early September, an 80-year-old man living in Nagayo Town received a phone call from a woman claiming to be from the NTT Customer Center, who told him, "You are the…