Metropolitan Police Department warns of a series of victims of special fraud behind the scenes of high-paying part-time jobs overseas

``I can go abroad'' and ``I can earn a high income at a resort area.'' In response to such invitations, there are many cases in which people travel overseas and are made to act as ``kakeko'' by making fraudulent phone calls from special local fraud bases.

The Metropolitan Police Department is working to uncover the actual situation at overseas fraud bases by obtaining information on the return of Japanese nationals who may have been involved in special fraud while traveling, and going to airports to interview them about their circumstances.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, there have been cases in which people have not only applied for jobs on social media, but also been introduced to ``hotel review jobs'' by acquaintances, or been approached while sightseeing overseas, and taken to fraudulent locations.

Once they enter the base, their freedom will be taken away and they will not be able to return home, potentially putting themselves in danger.

Some people said things like ``I pushed him off the 6th floor of the building,'' and ``The guard used a stun gun on the sleeping child,'' while another person reportedly tried to escape by removing the iron bars of a room on the third floor of the building on the third day of their stay.

Don't get involved, Hiroyuki

According to the National Police Agency, 37 people were arrested after fraud bases in overseas countries such as Cambodia and Indonesia were uncovered by local authorities and transferred to Japan between January and June 2016, an increase of 27 from the same period last year.

On the 18th, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department created a comic video based on these experiences in order to make the younger generation aware of these realities.

One of the videos, approximately 90 seconds long, depicts a woman applying for a part-time job on a social networking site that claims to have a "high income at an overseas resort," and then being forced to play with children at her destination, making it difficult for her to return home. It is published on the website of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Anonymous and Mobile Crime Group Countermeasures Headquarters (https://tokuryutai.jp/).

Tetsuya Ueda, strategic planning officer at the Hiroyu Headquarters, appealed to the public, saying, ``If you become complicit in the Hiroyuki, you risk harming yourself and your family.Your life will be ruined.Please don't get involved in the Hiroyuki.''