It’s not the romance scam case.

I don’t know which site of SCARS/RSN to report this kind of update news from Japan, I’ll just write here as a case study and the sympathy to those financial victims in China.

According to the TBS morning news on 18 April 2019, 10 Chinese age about 19-44 men and women were arrested in Yamanashi prefecture, Japan. They sent various kinds of rich Chinese person’s phone and e-mail list according to the Chinese manual to scam the “virtual money’ in Chinese yuan.
Virtual money via smart phone is commonly used at every situation in China. The scam e-mail says there’s wrong log-in to your virtual money account, ask targets to change the password in the fishing web site and scam the money via virtual money system like Union Pay.

Those 10 suspects were arrested as the illegal overstay with wrong-status in Japanese criminal law, not as scammers.

Those callers’ victims are all in People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Macao and/or HongKong. The victims’ detail are not clear yet.

Hence the Japanese “Special Fraud Control Law” is under the “in-bound policy”, those 10 Chinese virtual money scam suspects won’t be punished as scammers according to Japanese law, for both susects and victims’s scamming case itself is NOT DONE BETWEEN THOSE IN JAPAN.

Criminal laws in Japan stands based on the “in-bound policy”, which means Japanese criminal laws are applicable if a victim is a domestic or foreign resident, a visitor or exist as a stateless, overstays and/or on-the-way to refugee application etc. in Japan.

There’s no extradition treaty of criminals between Japan and China /Taiwan as well. Those suspect probably will send to Tokyo Immigration detainee in Ushiku, not that long in local detainee’s jail nor the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Bureau detainee’s jail in Tokyo unless there’s some special request from the someone powerfull.

So those callers might be released without punishment nor face any jail term for their scam crime in both Japan and China, if all of them can afford a one-way ticket to their oriniginal destination of departure.

Tokyo Immigration may allow those overstay foreigners back to their own country if each of them can buy and show a one way ticket.

Unless police authority in China is willing to take an action against those scammers as suspects back in China to arrest them by Chinese government policy, Japan will stay as “the scammer’s heaven”, one of the comentator said on the news.

The picture below is the room of the house which was well-shaded with heavy curtain. Those suspects have claimed themselves as a Japanese language school students, a housewife or a housekeeper according to TBS “Asa-chan”news this morning.