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  kokuryu at 07:17 AM JST - 16th July

  Okay, and how is someone supposed to know if they have been a victim of billing fraud? Do people in Japan pay directly to bank accounts via electronic transfers? Or do they send checks or money orders like most people do?

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  Farmboy at 07:48 AM JST - 16th July

  kokuryu, Yes, people pay directly to bank accounts, or they pay cash. Checks are not used. As for what most people do, I have no idea.

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  Zybster at 09:04 AM JST - 16th July

  kokuryu, if you read carefully you'll notice "use in bank transfer scams". Here they are talking about the thousands of cases when people are duped to wire money to specific bank accounts, and now 6000 of bank accounts that are suspected of receiving those fraudulent transfers are being frozen. Yes, you'll know if you've been duped soon enough.

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  electric2004 at 01:08 PM JST - 16th July

  Zybster, yes.

  kokuryua: Transfering money:

  a) going to Post office or Bank, filling out the paper forms, and pay in cash or it is taken from your account. As there are security cameras in the bank/post office and you need to have an inkan, the chances for fraud are small. But it is time consuming.

  b) going to Post office or Bank, transfer by ATM You enter the bank and the account number where you want to send your money and your anschou-bangou. Be careful to keep the receipt.

  c) via Internet. It exists, but I don't trust this enough, therefore I did not try in Japan.

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  Zybster at 02:55 PM JST - 16th July

  electric2204, I use the internet bank transfer quite often, but I'm not an old lady who thinks she needs to help her teenage son. They usually would have enough problems with regular transfer, not to mention over the internet. The scams target people who believe for some reasons there is a need to quietly transfer the money to hush some things over, so often they don't want any help from others. And here is when they part with their money.

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