Mobile phone calls received in
The indiscriminate calls appear to be made by a bot program targeting Chinese residents in
Calls from numbers that start with non-existent country codes such as "+83" and "+422" were first identified around August and more than 5,000 were recorded one day in September among the spam phone numbers
A Chinese woman in her 40s in Akita, northeastern
During the call, a man and woman claiming to be from the Chinese embassy threatened the victim and accused her of illegally sending masks to
Most of the calls are believed to be automated and have recently started using numbers with fake area codes after initially using codes from countries in
==Kyodo
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