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"There Are Accomplices in the Fukui Prefectural Police": A Woman in Her 50s From Echizen City Was Scammed Out of 13 Million Yen in a Fake Police Scam; She Opened a Cryptocurrency Account and Sent the Money as Instructed

A woman in her 50s living in Echizen City has been defrauded of 12.94 million yen worth of cryptocurrency by a man posing as a police officer. According to the police, on August 6th, the woman received a call on her home landline from a man claiming to be from a postal service company, asking if she had sent a package containing five credit cards and clothing to Asahikawa. When the woman replied that she did not remember sending such a package, …
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A woman in her 50s living in Echizen City has been defrauded of 12.94 million yen worth of cryptocurrency by a man posing as a police officer. According to the police, on August 6th, the woman received a call on her home landline from a man claiming to be from a postal service company, asking if she had sent a package containing five credit cards and clothing to Asahikawa. When the woman replied that she did not remember sending such a package, …

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FNN.jpプライムオンライン broke the news on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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