Matter emerged after one of the customers was arrested by police
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Suspect told police, 'I have debt, and I wanted money'
One suspect told police, 'Since we used aliases, I didn't think the ruse would get out'
One suspect told police, 'I do not understand the meaning of the arrest'
Suspect believed to have recruited members to join fraud ring
Suspect is believed to have been a member of a fraud ring that operated in operated in Nara, Shimane, Tottori and Kochi prefectures
Local police plan to extradite the 15 suspects to Japan
Victim was told on the telephone by a person who posed as her son that he needed funds to cover an investment-related problem
Suspects targeted primarily elderly persons in Japan in money-transfer scams, police said
Upon her initial arrest in December, the defendant told police that she doubted that she had the means to cover a funeral