80-year-old Japanese woman scammed of £5000 by ‘astronaut stranded in space who needed money for oxygen’
Police in Hokkaido, northern Japan, say an 80-year-old woman has been swindled out of one million yen (about £5,000) in an online romance scam.
The victim reportedly met the fraudster on social media in July and developed a virtual relationship with him. The scammer posed as an astronaut stranded in space who claimed he urgently needed money to buy oxygen.
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80-year-old Japanese woman scammed of £5000 by ‘astronaut stranded in space who needed money for oxygen’
Police in Hokkaido, northern Japan, say an 80-year-old woman has been swindled out of one million yen (about £5,000) in an online romance scam.
The victim reportedly met the fraudster on social media in July and developed a virtual relationship with him. The scammer posed as an astronaut stranded in space who claimed he urgently needed money to buy oxygen.
This scammers are always creative
I think that when I am 80 I am going to try to reverse the situation and scam young'n's!
you need to ensure you get updated the trends of that time
No. I will use the unknown old times against the new. Maybe handwritten notes or something! 🤣
This has nothing to do with IQ, but with the way you interpret the Order of Operations problem...
Luckily, this particular example isn't really bad, just do brackets, multiplication, then addition. But