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Occurrence of Refund fraud

Yesterday, April 4th (Thursday), a man received a phone call from a person pretending to be from the tax office in Nagahama City saying, ``You have a tax refund. Today is the deadline for the procedure. Please call me when you arrive at the ATM.'' There have been two cases of refund fraud in which a person who believed the above operation operated an ATM as instructed over the phone by the man on the other end and ended up transferring cash.
This phone call pretends to be an employee of a tax office or financial institution, saying things like ``You have a refund'' and tricking the victim into going to an ATM and having them transfer money to the criminal's account.

[To avoid becoming a victim]
Tax office staff or financial institution staff will never call you and say, ``You have a refund.''
You cannot receive refunds at ATMs.

Let's practice the "3 rules + 1" to avoid being deceived.
〇 Set your home phone to answering machine
〇Do not use your cell phone at an ATM
〇Do not give your cash card + Do not tell your PIN number
＊Always set your home phone to answering machine.

Nagahama Police Station 0749-62-0110
Kinomoto Police Station 0749-82-3021
Shimin katsuyakuka 0749-65-8711

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Shimin katsuyakuka 0749-65-8711

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