The audio of Ippei Mizuhara’s phone call with the bank in which he impersonated Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to transfer himself $200,000 has been obtained and released by The Athletic.
In the nearly four-minute audio recording, Mizuhara identifies himself as “Shohei Ohtani,” and then says he needs to make a $200,000 transfer. In order to complete the two-factor authentication, Mizuhara read a six-digit code that was sent to a phone number that matches Mizuhara’s.
After asking to make the transfer, the agent ensures there’s no fraud involved. Here’s how the conversation went down (click here to listen to the full audio recording obtained by The Athletic):
Agent: “Now recently, we’ve come across a trend of fraud and scams, so we have been monitoring the online transactions closely to make sure our clients are not the victim of either.