{"id":7116,"date":"2010-09-17T23:13:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2010-09-17T23:13:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T14:13:05","slug":"police-notice-oreore-sagi-and-other-theft-crimes-with-nj-crime-placed-in-the-proper-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=7116","title":{"rendered":"Police notice: “Oreore Sagi” and other theft crimes with NJ crime placed in the proper context"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0In the same vein as a previous post putting Japanese and NJ crime in context<\/a>, we have the Hokkaido police issuing a warning (procured from a Sapporo post office ATM area last February)\u00a0about “Oreore Sagi” (“Hey Mom, it’s me, I need money fast” fraud) and other types of snatch and grab thefts. \u00a0As you can read below, we have 1) a shyster phoning some old mom claiming to be her son and asking for emergency funds to be sent to an account, 2) a cash card being used for theft because the owner uses his or her birthday as their PIN number (duh…), 3) people storing their inkans too close to their bankbooks, 4) mysterious people distracting marks so they can snatch their belongings, and 5) call the police immediately if they think they’ve been a victim of crime.<\/p>\n

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Item 4) below in particular is germane to Debito.org. \u00a0It mentions (in passing) that grabbers might say “you dropped some money” or “your clothes are dirty”, or speak to you in a foreign language. \u00a0After distracting you, then they run off with your cash or bag.<\/p>\n

Fine. \u00a0It’s in context of other crimes committed by Japanese. \u00a0Compare it with some past NPA posters making foreigners out to be the main culprits, including racist caricatures (which are fortunately avoided above), like this nasty one:<\/p>\n

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Darkies speaking katakana. \u00a0How nice. \u00a0More at https:\/\/www.debito.org\/TheCommunity\/communityissues.html#police<\/a><\/p>\n

I think this new one is a definite improvement. \u00a0Perhaps we’re getting listened to.<\/p>\n

One more thing: \u00a0About this “Oreore Sagi” fraud phenomenon. \u00a0One thing I’ve always wondered is, are parents so distant from their children nowadays that they can’t recognize their own child’s voice on the phone? \u00a0I don’t understand how they get duped. \u00a0Explain, somebody? \u00a0Arudou Debito in Calgary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the same vein as a previous post putting Japanese and NJ crime in context, we have the Hokkaido police issuing a warning (procured from a Sapporo post office ATM area last February) about “Oreore Sagi” (“Hey Mom, it’s me, I need money fast” fraud) and other types of snatch and grab thefts. As you can read below, we have 1) a shyster phoning some old mom claiming to be her son and asking for emergency funds to be sent to an account, 2) a cash card being used for theft because the owner uses his or her birthday as their PIN number, 3) people storing their inkans too close to their bankbooks, 4) mysterious people distracting marks so they can snatch their belongings, and 5) call the police immediately if they think they’ve been a victim of crime.<\/p>\n

Item 4) below in particular is germane to Debito.org. It mentions (in passing) that grabbers might say “you dropped some money” or “your clothes are dirty”, or speak to you in a foreign language. After distracting you, then they run off with your cash or bag.<\/p>\n

Fine. It’s in context of other crimes committed by Japanese. Compare it with some past NPA posters making foreigners out to be the main culprits, including racist caricatures (which are fortunately avoided above), like this nasty one with darkies speaking katakana: <\/p>\n

I think this new one is a definite improvement. Perhaps we’re getting listened to.<\/p>\n

One more thing: About this “Oreore Sagi” fraud phenomenon. One thing I’ve always wondered is, are parents so distant from their children nowadays that they can’t recognize their own child’s voice on the phone? I don’t understand how they get duped. Explain, somebody?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-news","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-media","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}