HIROSHIMA. Oct 9: Japan's alert immigration officials have thwarted another mass attempt to use the Asian Games as a cover to illegally enter the country, reports Reuter.

This time 15 Burmese posing as a "cheering squad" for their football team made the attempt.

But it was nowhere near as elaborate as the scam tried last week by 50 .Filipinos who posed, uniforms and all. as their country's volleyball team.

The 15 Burmese —10 men and five women aged between 18 and 37— were caught on Saturday with fake visas in their passports at Naha Airport on Japan's southern Island of Okinawa. an immigration spok eswoman said today

The visas were top quality counterfeits, which only experts could tell from genuine ones

The spokeswoman said immigration officials became suspicious after one of the men was not able to give details about his accommodation in Japan

He told the officials he wanted "to go sightseeing after ■ cheering for the Myanmar (Burma) soccer team in its game against Japan at the Hiroshima Asian Games "

The group had arrived on a Japan airlines flight from Hong Kong.