The 19 people are believed to be a special fraud group based in a hotel in Sihanoukville, a city in southern Cambodia. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department dispatched about 50 investigators to Cambodia on the 10th to transfer them to the Japan.

In January, a woman in her 1s living in Tokyo was suspected of fraud for defrauding about 60,25 yen worth of electronic money by sending a false message that she was paying for a paid site. In recent years, there have been a number of cases of fraudulent groups setting up bases overseas.