<h3>A criminal innovation combining &#8220;furikome fraud&#8221; and &#8220;robbery&#8221;&#8230; </h3>
 Nobuo Komiya, a criminologist, says, &#8220;This series of incidents is an innovation in crime that combines &#8216;furikome fraud&#8217; and &#8216;robbery'&#8221;, declining to use an inappropriate metaphor. Nobuo Komiya, a criminologist.
 Since the end of the year, there have been a number of robberies in which multiple robbers have broken into a house. How do the criminals find their target homes?
 &#8220;I think there are two routes: One is the &#8216;reuse of failed lists&#8217; from &#8216;furikome scams. In the case of furikome scams, even if the scam is ultimately exposed in the process, while talking with the kakego, they may have mentioned how much money they keep at home, or that they recently bought an expensive watch. Such information will later turn into valuable data,&#8221; says Komiya. 
 The suspects escorted from the Philippines were also arrested on suspicion of bank transfer fraud. 
 The suspects who were escorted from the Philippines were also arrested on suspicion of bank transfer scamming. So, it is quicker to burglarize a house where you know there is money in it.
 In a series of incidents, a suspicious car was seen parked in the neighborhood before the robberies.
 Once you have a target in mind, you can monitor and investigate the comings and goings of people, their family members, and their life cycles, and then step in when they are alone.&#8221;
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 Another route is to narrow down the target by comparing various lists.
 They collect individually traded lists, such as lists of senior citizens (e.g., alumni association lists) and lists of purchasers of high-value merchandise, and then, under the guise of a questionnaire survey, they gather double or triple the information to see how the other party reacts, and then determine the target.
 Since both robbers target their targets before committing the robbery, I call this type of robbery &#8220;pinpoint robbery. (Ibid.)
 What concerns Dr. Komiya the most is the fact that robbers are taking the easy way out. 
 Robbery is supposed to be a high-risk activity, but the people who carry it out do not think so. 
 In schools and other institutions, we should teach the risk of what kind of life awaits them in the future if they commit a crime. For example, they should be told that they will be punished in this way, that they will face this kind of life in prison, and that society will be cold even after they are released from prison.
<figure id="attachment_296844" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-296844" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="55133468"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/aflo_210205178.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-296844" class="wp-caption-text"> Suspects Watanabe (left) and Kojima being transported from the Philippines, where they are also suspected in a wide-ranging serial robbery case (Photo: Afro)</figcaption></figure>
<h3> Provider addresses that are often used by people in their 50s and older are dangerous! Change to an email address with high security effect!</h3>
 While it is common sense not to send out private information unnecessarily on social networking services, we still need to be careful about phishing scams in which personal information is extracted. This is also on the list of targets mentioned above.
 One way to protect yourself from such spam is to use a secure e-mail address such as Gmail, although many people in their 50s and older continue to use the provider who first created their address.
 provider e-mail addresses are basically managed by you unless you subscribe to a paid virus check option , whereas Gmail is free but managed by Google, and almost all junk mail is automatically sorted into the junk mail folder , so you see less of it.&#8221; (IT) (Journalist Shuji Shinohara, )
<figure id="attachment_296846" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-296846" style="width: 3872px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="4d5e2edb"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/aflo_210082295.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-296846" class="wp-caption-text"> The real main culprit is the person who is selling and buying data, and Rufi may just be receiving instructions,&#8221; said Komiya. Suspects Watanabe and Kojima being transferred from the Philippines (Photo: Afro)</figcaption></figure>
<h3> The &#8220;Jigsaw Puzzle Approach&#8221; to Increasing Accuracy&#8230;Criminal Groups vs. Digital Agency!</h3>
 I hear that security cameras and the like are selling well these days.
 I hear that security cameras and the like are selling well these days. It can reduce the probability of being involved in a crime. If you have double locks, you can reduce it even more. However, these measures should be considered as an extension of the existing burglary countermeasures. 
 A series of pinpoint burglars already have a variety of information and have done their own research, so they pose as delivery companies and force the residents to open the door on their own at the target time. This means that neither security cameras nor double locks will help. Even if you have a contract with a security company, they will not be notified if you open the door yourself,&#8221; said Komiya. 
 I use a number display system and do not answer calls from unknown numbers. When you order a delivery, you should specify the time and check the screen on the door phone when you receive the delivery. Is this the only thing we can do? Mr. Komiya said, &#8220;Unfortunately, that is not the case at the moment.
 Unfortunately, that is the case at the moment. Moreover, crime is likely to continue to evolve. There will probably be a second or third Luffy. Also, the real main criminals may be those who are selling and buying data, and Luffy may just be receiving instructions. 
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 Criminal groups are increasingly digitally transforming themselves, and those who protect them, including the police, must respond to crime in an advanced information and communications society by promoting digital transformation. 
 The &#8220;jigsaw approach,&#8221; in which personal information and lists of names are overlaid to create a list for pinpoint robberies, is expected to become increasingly accurate in the future. Both governments and companies will have to pay more attention to the management of information. 
 Finally, they are starting to uncover websites that invite black market bytes, but the FBI is already going into the dark web and uncovering more and more of them. There are many things that need to be done, such as analyzing big data to narrow down criminal groups, creating a third-party organization to monitor customer data to ensure that it is not leaked, and using AI to infer crimes from the content of phone calls and play audio to warn people to be careful. 
 The Digital Agency will be the headquarters for these efforts. It all depends on how far we can go.
Nobuo Komiya Professor of Criminology at Rissho University. D. in sociology. He was the first Japanese to complete graduate studies in criminology at the University of Cambridge. Formerly worked at Honda Motor&#8217;s Information Systems Division, the United Nations Institute for Far East Crime Prevention in Asia, and the Ministry of Justice&#8217;s Legal Research Institute before assuming his current position. He is a second-class information processing engineer (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry). Inventor of the &#8220;Community Safety Map. He has served as the chairperson of the National Police Agency&#8217;s Research and Study Group on Safe and Secure Community Development and the chairperson of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government&#8217;s Delinquency Prevention and Victimization Prevention Education Committee.
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 His representative publications include &#8220;Crime Prevention in the World through Photographs: Ruins, Design, and Community Planning&#8221; (Shogakukan, selected book by the National School Library Association), &#8220;Crime Can Be Predicted&#8221; (Shincho Shinsho), NHK &#8220;Close-up Today,&#8221; Nippon Television &#8220;Sekaiichi uketai jugyo&#8221; (The Class I Want to Attend), etc. He has appeared on television, been interviewed by newspapers, and given numerous lectures throughout Japan.
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 Izumi Nakagawa

 Nobuo Komiya, a criminologist, says, "This series of incidents is an innovation of crime, combining 'furikome fraud' and 'burglary'. How do the criminals find their target houses?

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