Apan Scam News Today

A 25-year-old Japanese woman is given a nine-year prison sentence for defrauding three men out of a total of 155 million yen ($1 million) on a dating app and selling a manual on how to scam men out of their money.

A Japanese man accused of defrauding an individual in his homeland over the phone from his base on the outskirts of Bangkok has been extradited to Japan where he was arrested, investigative sources say.

Twenty-five Japanese nationals detained in September in Cambodia for allegedly running a phone scam operation out of a Phnom Penh apartment will soon be extradited to Japan for arrest, according to investigative sources.

Cambodian investigative sources say that mobile phones seized by local authorities after they raided an apartment in Phnom Penh used as a base by over 20 Japanese nationals for alleged fraud were destroyed before the raid.

A record 2,322 scams in Japan to steal internet banking IDs and passwords have resulted in unauthorized money transfers totaling a record of around 3 billion yen ($21 million) in the first half of this year, a report by the National Police Agency shows

A suspected senior member of a group that orchestrated scams across Japan from the Philippines was served a fresh arrest warrant on June 29 for allegedly ordering a robbery in Kyoto under the pseudonym "Luffy."