The Aomori Prefectural Police are currently calling for special fraud prevention using Tsugaru dialect and Nanbu dialect on their official Twitter account.

According to the Aomori Prefectural Police, there were 37 special fraud cases in Aomori Prefecture this year, and the amount of damage amounted to about 280 million yen, which is larger than last year. "I used the dialect because I wanted people to feel more familiar with the warning," said an official from the Public Relations Division.

The slogan used in the tweet, "If you don't understand 'na, dadaba' (who you are in Tsugaru dialect), fake son," was a dialect slogan recruited from police officers and prefectural police officers in 2018. one of. This work was selected as an excellent work for public relations to prevent damage caused by fraud, and there are other slogans that use Nanbu dialect and Shimokita dialect.

The T-shirt printed with the slogan introduced in the tweet was handmade by the staff of the Public Relations Division and was made for the event. It is said that the staff of the public relations department will wear it. We also produced a T-shirt printed with the Nanbu dialect, "Ngandon Umehanya Kadaranee." There are currently no plans to sell.

On the Internet, there were voices such as "Tsugaru dialect can be a deterrent to me scams" and "Your name is a movie", and the theme song of the French movie "Man and Woman" There was an indication that it sounded like "", and there were reactions such as "It only sounds like that".

The person in charge said, "Recently, there have been cases of fraudulent calls claiming that they won the right to move into a nursing home, etc., and even if they refused, they would rush the money by saying, 'You will need to pay a handling fee.' Please be sure to consult with those around you and try not to respond immediately."