Ex-Employee Exposes Investment Scam in Sri Lanka Targeting Japanese

A Sri Lanka-based scam syndicate posing as an IT company was recruiting Japanese speakers to lure victims in Japan into an investment scam, Japanese media reported.

A Sri Lankan man now working in Japan, who briefly worked for the syndicate, told the media about the criminal organization.

The man said he found the job on Facebook and was offered a salary of 250,000 Sri Lankan rupees (about $855). The fraudulent organization had about a hundred members, but none of them were Japanese.

He received a list of phone numbers from the company and was told to promote investment products based on the list. Moreover, an application was used to hide where the company’s phone numbers belonged.

The man was unwilling to do such deceptive activities and quit the job.

Although it is not known how much loss the group caused to its victims, according to the man, some of the victims transferred about $192,000 to a bank account opened by the group in Japan.