The scams that criminals are pulling off with Belarusian pensioners are just child's play compared to what the Japanese grandmother believed.
The 80-year-old woman was masterfully “processed” over several communication sessions, and she easily parted with 1 million yen, writes a Belnovosti correspondent.
It's both funny and sad, as they say, but an elderly woman fell in love via correspondence with an astronaut stuck in orbit around our planet, writes CBS News.
The lonely woman received long-awaited letters from June directly from the orbital station, where her lover was experiencing yet another emergency.
The man simply begged a woman from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to save him. He wrote that the spaceship was running out of oxygen and was “under attack.”
The woman in love was not stopped even by the hero-lover's request to transfer money directly to him, i.e. to orbit, so that he could order oxygen online.
It seems impossible to believe this nonsense, but a Japanese woman transferred about 1 million yen or 6,700 dollars to the man of her dreams.
The local police are investigating this case.
According to the source, citing World Bank research, Japan is in second place in terms of the number of fraud victims per capita. Monaco is in first place.
Most often, good-natured Japanese people fall for the “it’s me” scheme (analogous to “Hello, Mom!”). The scammer pretends to be a relative in trouble and asks to transfer money.
And in the high spirits of 2023, 64,000 Americans were caught voluntarily parting with their savings worth $1 billion.
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