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A Man in His 70s From Kuwana City Was Scammed Out of 138 Million Yen in Cash.

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[Kuwana] The Kuwana Police Station in Mie Prefecture announced on the 29th that a man in his 70s from Kuwana City, who was unemployed, was defrauded of 138 million yen in cash by men posing as police officers who told him he needed to transfer funds to avoid arrest. The case is being investigated as a fraud. According to the police station, around mid-February, the man received a call from someone claiming to be from the "NTT Customer Center" sa…
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[Kuwana] The Kuwana Police Station in Mie Prefecture announced on the 29th that a man in his 70s from Kuwana City, who was unemployed, was defrauded of 138 million yen in cash by men posing as police officers who told him he needed to transfer funds to avoid arrest. The case is being investigated as a fraud. According to the police station, around mid-February, the man received a call from someone claiming to be from the "NTT Customer Center" sa…

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伊勢新聞 broke the news on Tuesday, June 30, 2026.
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