「ＰＣにウイルス」とうそ、３人逮捕　「サポート詐欺」を初摘発―警視庁

　「パソコンがウイルスに感染している」とうそをつき、対策をサポートすると持ち掛けて代金をだまし取ったとして、警視庁は１８日までに、詐欺容疑でフィリピン国籍の会社社長アライ・イメルダ・ナガ容疑者（５２）＝住所不詳＝ら３人を逮捕した。容疑を否認している。同様の手口は「サポート詐欺」と呼ばれ摘発は全国初という。
　同庁サイバー犯罪対策課はアライ容疑者らが２０１８年１０月から１９年７月までの間、全国の４００人以上から２０００万円以上を集めたとみて調べる。被害の約８割は６０代以上の高齢者という。（2022/01/18-14:00）

Tokyo police said Tuesday they have arrested three people over an alleged scam in which the suspects pretended to give technical support for virus-ridden computers.
   It is the first arrest involving so-called technical support scams in Japan.
   The Metropolitan Police Department arrested Imelda Naga Arai, a 52-year-old Filipino who is president of a company, and two others on suspicion of fraud. The suspects have denied the allegations.
   The suspects collected over 20 million yen from over 400 people around Japan through the scam between October 2018 and July 2019, the MPD's cybercrime unit said. Around 80 pct of the victims were in their 60s or older, it said.
   In the scam, victims received a false notification on their computers alerting them of a virus infection. The messages told the victims that they would not be able to access their computers, and that they needed to make a phone call within five minutes to fix the issue.