特殊詐欺をＧ７で初議論　内務・安全相会合が開幕―水戸

　先進７カ国（Ｇ７）内務・安全担当相会合が８日、水戸市で開幕した。Ｇ７で初めて特殊詐欺を議題として扱い、成果文書の取りまとめを目指す。１０日まで３日間の日程で行われる。
　警察庁によると、特殊詐欺は海外でも深刻な問題になっている。日本では電話を使って高齢者などをだます手口が多いが、海外ではインターネット上で相手をだます「オンライン詐欺」が主流という。（2023/12/08-17:12）

Internal affairs and security ministers of the Group of Seven major nations are going to take up the issue of "special fraud" for the first time ever at their meeting that began in Mito on Friday.
   The ministers from Japan, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United States aim to put together an outcome document during the three-day meeting in the capital of Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.
   According to Japan's National Police Agency, special fraud is becoming a serious issue outside Japan as well. Fraudsters usually use smartphones to swindle older people out of money in such cases in Japan, while online scams through websites are common abroad.
   Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock will deliver a lecture so the ministers can share views about online scam groups and other crime organizations active across borders and take effective countermeasures.
   Besides, the participants are set to discuss economic security, cybercrime, sexual exploitation and abuse of children, counterterrorism measures and aid to Russian invasion-battered Ukraine.