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The_Face_of_Boo
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02 Sep 2025, 11:02 am
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woman-roma ... ess-japan/
Quote:
The hapless woman in Japan's northern Hokkaido island met the fraudster in July on social media who claimed to be a male astronaut, a local police officer told AFP, describing the case as a romance scam.
After some exchanges, the scammer one day told her he was "in space on a spaceship right now" but was "under attack and in need of oxygen," the official said.
The scammer then urged her to pay him online to help him buy oxygen, and successfully hoodwinked around 1 million yen ($6,700) out of her.
After some exchanges, the scammer one day told her he was "in space on a spaceship right now" but was "under attack and in need of oxygen," the official said.
The scammer then urged her to pay him online to help him buy oxygen, and successfully hoodwinked around 1 million yen ($6,700) out of her.
"Shields are at 20%, send me money immediately!"
nick007
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Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in capitalistic military dictatorship called USA
02 Sep 2025, 6:44 pm
That's a real life scam inspired by a religious charity scam in an ep of South Park 
23 Dec 2025, 1:59 am
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