Overview
- Prefectural police in Gifu announced that a Tajimi manufacturing company was defrauded after staff followed instructions from an email impersonating their executive.
- The spoofed message was sent to the firm's publicly listed address and told employees to create a LINE group that included accounting personnel for transfer directions.
- According to police, the email arrived on January 14 and an employee wired ¥100 million to a designated account on January 15.
- Scammers then sought an additional ¥48 million, prompting staff to check the sender’s address and discover it was not the executive’s.
- Investigators are probing the case as part of a rise in similar schemes, and the National Police Agency has issued warnings; no arrests or fund recovery have been announced.