{"id":158513,"date":"2023-12-01T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=158513&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:37:15","slug":"saga-police-nab-officer-in-social-media-scam","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/saga-police-nab-officer-in-social-media-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Saga Police Nab Officer in Social Media Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yurina <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Otani, a 25-year-old police officer from Osaka Prefecture, was arrested by the Saga Prefectural Police for participating in a social media fraud scheme. Otani, along with accomplices, impersonated a Canadian doctor and a Japanese male model to deceive two women into sending money. In the first case, she targeted a woman in her 50s from Ogi City, Saga Prefecture, between July and August, posing as a Canadian doctor who needed 200,000 yen for airfare due to his mother&#8217;s hospitalization, resulting in a total fraud of 1,947,600 yen from this victim. In the second case, she posed as a Japanese male model to a woman in her 60s from Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, claiming to need 700,000 yen for shipping a 500 million yen prize from Thailand, defrauding a total of 11.4 million yen. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/rkb.jp\/contents\/202311\/202311288984\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RKB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fnn_police-photoac_2023_cl.jpg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Saga Police Nab Officer in Social Media Scam\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fnn_police-photoac_2023_cl.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fnn_police-photoac_2023_cl.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fnn_police-photoac_2023_cl.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fnn_police-photoac_2023_cl.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Photo from Photo AC\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay informed with the latest Fukuoka &amp; Kyushu news and events in English. Sign up for our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free weekly newsletter <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">today and never miss a beat. Opt out anytime, your privacy is our priority. Get the inside scoop with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/mailmagazine\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Now<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Summaries based on public content, errors may occur during translation. Images credited independently. Send feedback using <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/contact\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this <\/span><b>form<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yurina Otani, a 25-year-old police officer from Osaka Prefecture, was arrested by the Saga Prefectural Police for participating in a social media fraud scheme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":158507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-158513","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-saga-prefecture","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/158513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}