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With today’s changing habits, the starting address of love relationships has now started to be social media platforms. Millions of people from all over the world trust and have relationships with people they have met online and whose faces they have never seen. However, this situation inevitably leads to various fraud stories.
The concept of romantic fraud or love fraud has entered our lives so much that the lives of these fraudsters, who defrauded countless women and stole millions from their innocent victims, are now being broadcast as documentaries on famous digital platforms.
Every year in the UK people lose £92m to ‘love scams’. According to Action Fraud, which released this data, similar crimes are on the rise in the UK. It is also underlined that Foundation Day, Valentine’s Day and Christmas are the times most victims of such crimes.
CASES OF ROMANTIC SCAMS ARE RISING
However, this is of course not unique to the UK. This type of scam in Japan is covered in the British media. news Inevitably, the country’s statistical data on this issue also found its place in the headlines.
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What happened to an unnamed 65-year-old Japanese woman is actually a warning to everyone.
The scammer’s profile was filled with countless photos of space and ISS.
According to Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi, the 65-year-old victim started chatting with a man on Instagram in June.
man’s profile space photos, astronaut clothes and loads of photos from the International Space Station (ISS).
“I AM AN ASTRONAUT, I WANT TO COME TO THE WORLD”
The man soon began to say that he was in love with the unnamed woman and wanted to marry her and move to Japan so they could start their new life together.
Cheat The man claimed to be a Russian astronaut and was already on a space mission. To be able to return to the world of man and Internet he needed 27,000 euros, that is exactly 4 million 400 thousand yen, to get his love!
ROCKET REQUESTED A LANDING FEE!
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The man had told the woman that he would return to Earth and marry her if he could pay the ‘rocket landing fees’ required to leave the International Space Station. She was telling him that she loved him and wanted to start a new life with him in Japan.
Between 19 August and 5 September, the woman sent her husband-to-be 27,000 euros to cover the cost of the rocket.
However, when the woman finally became suspicious of the situation, she reported this ‘space cowboy’ to the police, and the case is currently being investigated by authorities as a ‘romance scam’.
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