Romance scams in Japan

Be mindful the next time someone slides into your DMs. Lots of money lost indeed.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250219_01/

Let me know your thoughts and experiences on this. Praying for those victims. People need to be careful on and offline, but playing games with someone’s feelings is just evil.

by BusinessBasic2041

3 comments
  1. There’s tons of scammers on the dating apps and what not. But they’re also fairly easy to suss out once you know what to look for.

  2. > using false identities such as a doctor and an astronaut. They are alleged to have defrauded 14 Japanese people of a total of 150 million yen, or roughly 990,000 dollars, under the guise of marriage expenses and investment

    who won’t trust when an astronaut want to marry you without having meet a single time

  3. That’s interesting. I’ve got one person in my DM recently who texted me in Japanese, just out of nowhere. The account is new.

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