When you first come to Japan, many of you are not familiar with life, how to live, and how to register for services. It is because it is strange that it is easy to become a potential object of scammers. If you accidentally become a victim of fraud, how should you handle it? In today’s article, we will give you a few ways to handle it. I hope the following tips are useful to you. 

1. Trick phone purchase information

    Many newcomers, because their Japanese is not good and they do not understand the problems related to procedures, they often ask acquaintances to take them to buy phones. When registering a phone in Japan, you need to provide relevant personal documents for registration (such as alien card, personal stamp, bank book, insurance card). Therefore, many components, despite having a reputation for helping you to register, actually stole your information to register with the network operator for other expensive products. Then next month you will have to pay via bank card because the registration information is yours!

    There are many newcomers who are easily deceived by this method. Panic when receiving notice to pay the first few tens of men, a few of you do not want to be involved in the visa later, so you will pay it off, or many of you have to ignore the payment slips sent in your name. 

    When this happens, you should immediately contact the network operator to verify the information and get direct help from the carrier to cancel the fraudulent service packages and find a way to fix the money that has been scammed. At the same time, if there is evidence that someone stole your personal information to sign up for service packages, you can report it to the police.

2. Rent transfer scam

    Housing is also an issue that many international students are interested in. There are many gullible friends who use Facebook to ask friends or strangers to help them find an inn before coming over. When asking to find a home, you will be asked to transfer the deposit first. When I arrived at the new place, I was “surprised” to know that I had been tricked into not having a house or was put in poor quality hostels that did not match the pictures and descriptions. Or in the case of international students who have to transfer rent for 6 months, but you find a house to help pay the owner for 1 month’s room. And when you stay until the 2nd month, you will know that you’ve been “bamboozled” when the landlord comes to ask for the 2nd month’s money.

    In case you have been deliberately cheated by someone like that, it is very difficult to sue or refuse to pay for damaged items in advance or have to pay extra rent. Therefore, to avoid falling into such a precarious situation, you need to be equipped with a knowledge base as follows: 

    Most DHS, once the school has approved the admission, they will prepare accommodation for you. In case you do not see the school mentioned, please boldly ask or ask for direct help from the teacher in charge. If you are already in Japan, before agreeing to rent a room, ask the other party to provide an address and take you to the place to verify and then write a rental contract. 

    Need to read the contract carefully, have to pay compensation, deposit, clean the house…how to leave. Before entering the inn, you need to take pictures of the full condition of the house and the condition of the equipment in the house. That will be the proof to keep you from paying ridiculous amounts. 

    In addition, absolutely do not ask a partner to transfer money for you, but meet the owner or Real Estate directly with the other party to give money and sign documents when all parties appear.

3. Job referral scam 

    The common psychology of international students and newcomers to Japan is to find a part-time job right away. Taking advantage of this point, many people have been tricked by previous friends or acquaintances to introduce them to the workplace and collect a referral fee of 2-4 man (equivalent to 4-6 million). Many of you, due to poor Japanese language skills, accept to lose money for job placement. And then when I worked for about 1-2 weeks, I was fired because of poor language, lazy work… 

    Please note that it is not too difficult to find a part-time job. If you have good Japanese language ability, there are many recruitment places. Or if not, you can look for part-time jobs on free recruitment sites like Townwork, hellowork… Please get the job summary books at the train station, pier and call the shop. . 

    In addition, you need to learn information from many people before making a decision whether to work at places recommended by others, to avoid the case of only listening to information communicated from one side and then becoming a victim of profit. Use.

4. Scam on buying plane tickets

    After the phone, the plane ticket is also the “locality” of many scammers. Many people use the social network Facebook to book airline tickets, provide personal information, buy and sell … Tapping into the mentality of Vietnamese people wanting to “hunt” cheap tickets in Japan in general, during the transaction process, these Facebook accounts will enthusiastically support them. However, after the transfer, you will be blocked immediately. There are also cases where tickets are issued, only when they arrive at the airport to know that it is a “virtual” ticket. Even issued a real ticket, but before the flight date, the ticket was canceled. Therefore, you need to prepare yourself mentally and need to consult official information sources before deciding to buy airline tickets. If you want to buy a ticket to Vietnam, you should refer to the price directly on the website of Vietnam Airlines, VietJet Airline, ANA, JAL, etc. airlines that have routes to Vietnam. If you are buying a ticket to move within Japan, at public places and basic facilities in Japan, most of the instructions are available in many languages, if you are not fluent in Japanese, you can use English or use other automatic translation tools to convey your wishes

5. Trick to transfer money back home

    The need to transfer money to the family of Vietnamese people in Japan is very large. However, some of you are afraid to transfer to banks because the fees are too high, the procedures are quite complicated, and there are many exchange rate differences. Since then, three-way money transfer services have appeared and are widely used by many people. This form means: You transfer Yen money in Japan to a third person who is in Japan and that person will transfer VND money to your family member’s account in Vietnam. Because the gullible did not pay attention, after transferring the yen money to that person, the family still has not received the money and then you realize that it has been “blown”. Or many cases of receiving fake money transfer receipts, or fake money transfer messages to relatives’ phone numbers… You have to pay special attention, it is illegal to transfer money to third parties. This is also the reason why, despite being deceived, many of you do not dare to report information to the Japanese police because you will also be investigated if you are involved in this illegal money transfer problem. There are many reputable money transfer services such as DCOM, SMILES, SBI, etc., with a cost of only 400 VND/time and completely transparent, secure and fast transfer. Don’t lose your savings for several months because of greed for free money or high exchange rates, be alert to the tricks of the scammers!

6. Visa Conversion Scam

    In fact, there are many DHS who come to Japan with a student visa but only spend time working part-time to earn a lot of money to send back to their family. Until you switch to other forms of Visa, but the possibility of being rejected is high because you have worked too much (breaking the law), you will frantically spend money up to 20-30 even 50 man thanks to a lawyer, organization of explanation and visa transfer. Many of you get a visa but don’t have a job, or the dangerous and hard work is different when introduced, or the salary is low… Leaving you in the dilemma of “The money has been paid but the work has not been done yet.” do not have”. Therefore, you need to be discerning before these types of scams and always remember that if your ability is not enough, you must try to improve your Japanese, professional qualifications… do not believe the temptations “Japan is in the middle of nowhere.” With the population aging, there is a great need for human resources who do not need a degree to still be able to study/work…”. In fact, even though the population is aging, their technology still develops and still needs talented people, so it really makes no sense to go to work, study and then receive a high salary even if you don’t have any qualifications or skills. 

    We hope that this article has provided you with useful information. Wishing you all good health and success!