The Japan Company Trust
Organization (JCTO) is receiving countless fraud complaints from all
over the world, seeking JCTO's help to recover money. The combined
investigation held by Japan Company Trust Organization (JCTO) and other
agencies for various fraud cases shows following results:
* Regardless of nationality,
the fraudsters are busy 24 hours 365 days a year to find target for fraud.
* The majority of foreign
community in Japan are honest. But few criminal foreigners residing in Japan
are involved in frauds.
* The fraudster foreigners
residing in Japan are sometime using Japanese names to hide their actual
nationality.
* Japanese nationals are also
involved in committing fraud.
* Japanese nationals commit
fraud with foreigners and sometime alone.
* The fraudsters make
impressive website and use bogus address to gain victim's trust.
* The fraudsters use free
Email accounts like, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail etc.
* In many cases, the fake
website is controlled from the overseas country, pictures and data of product
is copy from other website, and the fraudster are not in Japan to avoid
possible arrest, but they are using Japanese Bank account.
* Fraudters are using cell
phones for easily runaway after comitting the fraud.
* The cell phone numbers start
like +81 90 or +81 80 or +81 70 etc. (firts tow digits "81" is the
country code for japan).
* Inmany cases, fraudsters use
Japanese phone number, but the call is forwarded to other countries.
