A note from the Kumamoto International Desk of Not Really Interesting News but a Good Chance to Improve your Japanese (our title plackards are so long there’s no room for our names): Kumanichi reports a drastic increase in Internet phishing (phishing sagi, フィッシング詐欺 - the ‘ph-’ is pronunced as an ‘f’ because English is weird) focused on NTT’s Docomo phones, with 80 cases in August alone netting some 5.8 million yen. The mails dangle their bait by appearing authentic, suggesting alarming (the word used for this - あおる - was new to me and has a wide range of uses - Weblio is your friend) topics, and asking the user to provide login credentials which were then used for online shopping (キャリア決済, carrier kessai) and then fenced.
If receiving any financial-related email with a link, do not open it. Log off and go straight to the main site. - William
