Suspect told police, 'Since Japanese women want to spend money, I targeted Japanese men'
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Last week, police publicly released photographs taken from security camera footage that showed the suspect wearing black glasses and a suit
Suspects traveled to rest areas and another places along highways in the Kanto and Tohoku areas to make telephone calls to swindle victims
Victim sent funds to addresses in Saitama and Ibaraki prefectures through takkyubin services
Victim was told on the telephone by someone impersonating her son that he needed money to pay off the husband of a woman whom he had gotten pregnant
Ring is believed to have swindled about 100 persons in the Tokyo metropolitan area, police said
Person falsely claiming to be a police officer told the victim that her bank cards were 'being used for criminal activity'
Woman was told on the telephone by someone impersonating her nephew that he needed the money to cover a company-related problem
Police seized high school alumni lists that included about 22,000 names from the ring's headquarters
Police seized mobile telephones, a computer, a paper shredder and registers of names