Many of the scams and suspected calls were abusing forwarding services to hide the source of the caller, such as displaying a number starting with "03" in Tokyo. The amount of damage caused by special fraud amounted to more than 361.2014 billion yen last year, which has started to increase since 1.
The National Police Agency should consider methods such as using IC chip data and strengthen countermeasures, the report says. The report says a total of 9843,8418 fraudulent calls were confirmed nationwide last year in which the number was identified.