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31-Year-Old Woman and Others Arrested for "Fake Police Officer Scam"; Impersonated Osaka Prefectural Police Officers and Claimed to Be "in the Situation Just Before Arrest"; Suspected of Defrauding Victims of Cryptocurrency Worth 8,100
Saki Okayama (31), a woman with her face down in a police vehicle, was arrested along with Mitsuki Minamisawa (38) on suspicion of involvement in a "fake police officer scam." The two allegedly impersonated police officers and other officials and called a woman in her 40s at the time, defrauding her of approximately 81 million yen in cryptocurrency. The scam group's base of operations is believed to be in Cambodia, more than 4,000 km from Japan.…
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Saki Okayama (31), a woman with her face down in a police vehicle, was arrested along with Mitsuki Minamisawa (38) on suspicion of involvement in a "fake police officer scam." The two allegedly impersonated police officers and other officials and called a woman in her 40s at the time, defrauding her of approximately 81 million yen in cryptocurrency. The scam group's base of operations is believed to be in Cambodia, more than 4,000 km from Japan.…