"It's me, send money." ore ore frauds

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 3:19 pm

'It's me' scammers dupe same woman twice
Mainichi/MDN, April 21, 2004
WAKAYAMA -- A woman fell victim to a pair of "it's me, send money" fraudsters twice after the scammers told her that the money she had deposited into their account was not enough,.... 54-year-old woman from Naga, Wakayama Prefecture, received a call ....from a young man who said he had been caught by a moneylender and was going to be taken away if he didn't pay..... the woman deposited about 1.4 million yen into the account. Later the same man called back and said the amount the woman had deposited was not enough, so the woman reportedly deposited a further 1.5 million yen into the account.

See also the FG's own Captain Japan on this "ore ore sagi" scam.

by **Snapped** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:32 pm

You really have to wonder about some people. :shake:

by **kurohinge1** » Wed May 26, 2004 11:54 am

See above about these "ore ore" ("it's me, it's me") scams, as well as Taro's post from last May - Slick Obachan Scam
The latest reported "victim" takes the cake ...

MDN wrote:Mother scammed by fake son while real son sleeps

KAWASAKI -- A woman fell victim to a 'Hi mom, it's me!' scam when a man called her and pretended to be her son even though the son was asleep upstairs at the time ...

The victimized woman, a 45-year-old real estate agent in Kawasaki, received a call at about 10 a.m., on Tuesday.

... During the conversation her eldest son, 25, was sleeping upstairs in their home.The son woke up later to find his mother was not on the first floor that serves as her real estate agency's office, so he contacted his mother on his mobile phone ... [too late - she'd deposited 1.2 million yen into the scammer's account] ...

by **devicenull** » Wed May 26, 2004 1:57 pm

hmmm... must resist temptation

by **Taro Toporific** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:37 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:'It's me' scammers dupe same woman twice
Mainichi/MDN, April 21, 2004

...See also the FG's own Captain Japan on this "ore ore sagi" scam.

Fraudsters target parents with kids overseas
Mainichi/MDN, Oct 17, 2004
A new type of "It's me, send money," telephone fraud in which the caller tells victims that their son or daughter has caused an accident overseas and must pay compensation is emerging in Japan.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received over 10 recent reports on such fraud in just one month, and is calling for people to take guard....
...A man claiming to be an American lawyer called the mother of the 24-year-old, and, speaking in Japanese, said, "Your daughter has caused a traffic accident in the United States and the other person has died. If you pay the bail of 4.015 million yen, your daughter can be repatriated without a criminal conviction while she is still of marriageable age

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:42 pm

Man duped of 47 mil. yen in largest ever 'It's me' scam
(Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Dec. 15, 2004)
YOKOHAMA -- A 60-year-old man was swindled out of 47 million yen in a so-called "It's me, send money" scam in which he was led to believe that his son had rammed his car into two people, police said Wednesday....
....Even though the victim became suspicious, he complied with their demand after one of them told him that they would not mediate an out-of-court settlement if he faltered...more... :wall:

by **Blah Pete** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:51 pm

I was drinking at the neighborhood bar a few weeks ago and for some reason I started talking to a banker. He had just gotten off 24 hour on call duty in charge of cash machines. Anyway, he had a call from the police in Yokohama requesting to stop a bank transfer because they suspected it was an ore fraud.
He told the police there was nothing he could legally do because the lady was making a lawful transaction from her account.
The police are trying but if the people are stupid enough to believe the scam what can you do...

by **Taro Toporific** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:40 pm

Ya gotta admire the scammers creativity.

FNN-NEWS.com wrote:
FNN Jan 12, 23:10 --- A Hokkaido housewife in her forties was defrauded of 1.3 million yen in cash after a caller pretending to be her son in the Self-Defense Force said he had crashed a tank into a gate and needed the money to pay for damages.

See the Japanese <yawn> news report </yawn> video here: http://www.fnn-news.com/realvideo/bs200501121201_300.ram

by **Mulboyne** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:25 pm

Mainichi: Original 'It's me, mom' conman collared in Osaka

A man crime fighters believe may have been the original perpetrator of the 'It's me, mom" crimes that plagued the country a couple of years ago has been arrested in Osaka, police said. Yasuji Tokuda, 59, unemployed of no fixed address, was arrested for fraud, the eighth time he has been up on the charge since 1974. He is accused of pretending to be the relative of elderly people and preying on their vague memories to dupe them into handing cash over to him. Similar crimes called the "It's me, it's me" frauds became extremely common across Japan from about 2003 onward. Tokuda is refusing to talk to the police, who said they are investigating about 20 cases in which they suspect he was involved...more...

by **Greji** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:37 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:Ya gotta admire the scammers creativity.

Ore mo! BTW Taro, can you loan me a couple of quid until me brother straightens up?
:cool:

by **Taro Toporific** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:34 pm

Missouri grandmother's curiosity squashes scam
Mon Oct 13, 8:15 PM ET - news.yahoo.com
CARTHAGE, Mo. - Delpha Speak has 13 grandchildren and she didn't think it was completely implausible that one of her grandsons-in-law would call her to say he was in trouble. The 72-year-old retiree could tell something was wrong, and she wanted to do whatever she could to help.
But it was that concern that almost caught her up in what the state attorney general's office said is a common scam targeting older folks.
"He said, `Grandma,' and I said, `Which grandson?" Speak said. "He said, `Guess,' and I said, `Oh, it's Jamie,' and he said, `Yeah, it's Jamie.'"...more...

Mod note - fixed links as the Yahoo ones went away. Just chose a random paper that had the story.

by **Mulboyne** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:09 am

A 66 year old woman in Sapporo has been defrauded out of 1.4 million yen. The twist here, though, is that bank employees spent an hour telling her "It's a scam!" and she still went ahead and transferred the money. A man pretending to be her son had called her saying he was in trouble. Staffers noted that her son lives in Tokyo but the transfer instructions were for an account in Mie prefecture.

Japanese story here.

by **Mulboyne** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:38 am

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