TL;DR Tokyo police arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly making 258 fake hotel reservations, totaling 49,000 dollars, using false names and email addresses. The suspect, a former clinical laboratory technician, is suspected of fraudulent obstruction of business and has remained silent during questioning.
by SkyInJapan
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Sanseito supporter?
What a strange sort of economic terrorism. I wonder who he was even trying to punish.
Guy just wanted options smh
He was doing research
So what was the goal of this? Was he gonna cancel last minute and have all those rooms not filled or what? I don’t understand. He spent more than $100k on the bookings.
Was the guy from Saitama by any chance?
This sounds like sketchy dark baito stuff. Some operational thing for some crime? Make it so someone couldn’t book that particular hotel on that particular day?
Without any like, motive, it’s weird.
How does that work? Doesn’t he need a valid credit card to reserve the room?
It was 258 AT ONE HOTEL. In actuality, they found evidence of over 500 reservations.
Don’t you need cc for res?
A Japanese man did something similar to Odakyu’s Romancecar trains a few years ago.
[Sora News 24 – Saitama man arrested for making 9,313 false reservations on luxury trains](https://soranews24.com/2022/07/15/saitama-man-arrested-for-making-9313-false-reservations-on-luxury-trains/amp/)
My brain immediately went to, by making all those reservations he’s preventing foreigners from getting in.
Seems like 257 is the limit