Scammers tricked Japanese victims out of billions

Police have arrested four men, two Taiwanese and two Japanese, for allegedly running a call scam that defrauded about 17,500 victims in Japan out of the equivalent 9.5 billion baht in less than two years.

Victims were told by callers posing as bank officials and police that their accounts were compromised by a data leak and they should transfer their money to “secure…