
土地や建物の所有者になりすまして、他人の土地を無断で売却したり担保にして金をだまし取る「地面師」詐欺。
A “jimenshi” is a type of con artist who specializes in forging land ownership documents to fraudulently sell or transfer property they don’t actually own.
※con artist/con man 詐欺師
conはconfidence" (信頼) の略語。他人の信頼を悪用して騙し取る詐欺師、ペテン師。
地面師:land swindler, real estate scammer
※forge 捏造する、贋造する N:鍛冶場
※fraudulently 不正に、詐欺として
In a so-called “land fraud” case, a person pretends to be the owner, buys and sells a property without permission and winds up pocketing large amounts of money.
※fraud 詐欺 ➾scam
※pretend ふりをする ➾impersonate
※wind up doing 最終的に~することになる
※pocket(通例不正な方法で)自分のものにする、着服する、盗む、儲ける

8年前、積水ハウスが地面師詐欺で55億円の被害に遭いました。(ネットフリックスのドラマの元にもなった事件)
Eight years ago, a major housing manufacturer was defrauded of 5.5 billion yen in a bizarre case involving impostors and fakery.
※defraud詐欺行為をする、だまし取る
※bizarre 奇妙な、奇怪な
※imposter 他人の名前をかたる人 =impostor
※fakery いかさま(行為)、偽造(品)
大阪で起きた類似の事件の初公判で、被告は起訴内容を認めました。
Osaka swindlers: Companies lose ¥1.45 billion in land fraud case (タイトル)
In the first trials at the Osaka District Court, defendants pleaded guilty.
※defendant 被告(人)
※plead guilty 有罪[罪状]を認める


被告は、指示役の福田裕(53)と、実行役の粂陵平(25)。大阪ミナミの土地と建物の所有者になりすまし不動産会社と売買契約を結び、14億5000万円をだまし取った詐欺罪に問われています。
According to investigators, Fukuda is believed to have been the ringleader and given instructions to Kume to play the role of land owner.
※ring leader(特に不正な活動における)主犯, 首謀者➾mastermind 犯罪の黒幕、主謀者
※実行犯:一般的に使われるのは perpetrator
The pair are suspected of impersonating the owners of three land plots and buildings in Osaka’s downtown Minami area, signing sales contracts with two real estate companies and defrauding them out of a total of approximately 1.45 billion yen.
※impersonateふりをする、役を演じる
実際は70代女性が所有する物件。うその借用書を作成し、債権者を装い区役所で住民票の写しを取得。偽造免許証などで法人登記の代表を粂に変更。不動産会社には孫だと偽っていました。
The land and buildings were owned by a company whose president is a woman in her 70s. The suspects first created a fake I.O.U. stating that the owner had borrowed money from them.
※IOU 借用証書 【語源】 I owe you.
Then, they presented the I.O.U. to the ward office and obtained a copy of resident registration card of the owner while posing as a creditor.
※ward office 区役所
※resident registration card 住民票
※creditor 債権者 ⇔ debtor 債務者
The pair is suspected of applying for false corporate registrations using forged driver’s licenses of the woman to make it appear that the president had changed.
※corporate registration 法人登記
※forged 捏造した
別件で、司法書士に書類を確認した時に、不正が発覚しました。
The president of the company had noticed something strange as early as February of last year. When she had a judicial scrivener check the company’s registration for another reason, she discovered that the “CEO” column had been changed to a person named “Kume” without her knowledge.
※judicial scrivener司法書士
scrivener 〈古〉代書人、公証人、代筆屋、(軽蔑)物書き、二流・無名作家