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Anime fan in Japan arrested for ordering and cancelling over 4.3 billion yen in anime merch

• Casey Baseel
  Aug 7, 2026
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Shop ‘till you drop unfortunately becomes shop ‘till you get arrested.

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • crime • fraud • Jump Character Shop • manga • otaku • Shueisha • Weekly Shonen Jump)

Shizuoka police inspector punished for playing crane games on duty

• Master Blaster
  Jul 14, 2026

To serve and get plush toys.

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• Japan
• (crane games • crazy • crime • fraud • police • UFO catchers • weird)

Luxury houseplant fraud leads to arrest of Takamatsu man

• Master Blaster
  Jun 13, 2026

Grand theft arbor.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • fraud • houseplants • Operculicarya hyphaenoides • plants • weird)

Buddhist priest arrested for using health insurance card he found on the street

• Master Blaster
  Apr 25, 2026

Priest enlightened himself of the burdens incurred when paying for insurance.

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• Japan
• (Buddhism • crime • fraud • health insurance • Healthcare • MyNumber card • priest)

Police in Japan warn of scam artists posing as cops to collect fines for breaking new bike rules

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 18, 2026

Luckily there’s an easy way to tell if you’re dealing with a legitimate law enforcement officer or a con artist.

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• Japan
• (aoi kippu • bicycles • bicycling • bikes • blue ticket • COK • crime • cycline • fraud • fraudsters • scam artists • scammers • scams • society • transportation)

Fake police phone scam also highlights dumb stereotype about how foreigners speak Japanese[Video]

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 23, 2026

Fake police officer targets possibly the worst person, phone transcript isn’t so great either.

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• Japan
• (cracy • crime • fraud • fraudsters • funny.Japanese language • learning japanese • linguistics • scam artists • scammers • scams • weird)

Japan law lets you claim reward for finding lost property, man may have scammed it over 60 times

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2026

Tokyo man arrested for stealing smartphone, turning it in to police to claim reward money.

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• Japan
• (crime • fraud • fraudsters • lost property • Lost Property Act • scam artists • scams • theft)

Man arrested in Japan after leaving car in coin parking lot for six years, racking up three-million-yen bill

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 10, 2026

Says he remembers parking his car, but can’t remember the exact date he did it anymore.

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• Japan
• (cars • coin parking • COK • crazy • crime • Forcible Obstruction of Business • fraud • parking lots • weird)

Ramen shop manager arrested for punching self in the face and pretending he was robbed

• Master Blaster
  Feb 6, 2026

He should have punched harder and knocked some sense into himself.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • fraud • obstruction of business • ramen • robbery • Saitama • scam artists • scams • weird)

Astrologer arrested for running fake investment scheme worth approx. 2 billion yen

• Master Blaster
  Sep 8, 2025

The stars were finally aligned against the scammer.

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• Japan
• (astrologers • astrology • crime • crystals • fraud • investment fraud)

Space pilot under attack turns out to be con artist who stole 1 million yen from Sapporo senior

• Master Blaster
  Sep 4, 2025

That’ll be the last astronaut she’ll trust.

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• Japan
• (astronauts • crime • elderly • electronic money • fraud • Sapporo • seniors • spaceships • special fraud • tokushu sagi)

Japanese online flea market app bans the sale of ultrasound photos

• Master Blaster
  Aug 27, 2025

But what am I supposed to do with all these prenatal photos of my kids cluttering up the house?

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• Japan
• (flea market apps • fraud • mercari • pregnancy fraud • resale • ultrasound)

Aichi senior and former fraud victim arrested for fraud

• Master Blaster
  Jul 28, 2025

If you can’t beat ’em…

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • fraud • seniors • special fraud • weird)

Part-time clerk arrested for making over 200 million yen in fake purchase to steal free points

• Master Blaster
  Jul 26, 2025

It may be a cashless crime, but it isn’t a victimless one.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • fraud • Hiroshima • point systems • shopping centers • weird)

Pokémon Center Online tells all customers to change their passwords after fraudulent log-ins

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2025

Gotta change ‘em all.

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• Internet, Japan
• (anime • crime • fraud • fraudsters • manga • Pokemon • Pokemon Center • Pokémon Center Online • scams • scm artists • video games)

Father and son arrested for impersonating Shohei Ohtani to commit fraud

• Master Blaster
  Jun 24, 2025

With only $100 million in endorsements, it can be hard to make ends meet.

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• Japan
• (baseball • crime • fraud • Nepal • Shohei Ohtani • special fraud • sports • Tokyo)

Man dressed suspiciously warm for Japanese summer chased by helicopter and arrested for fraud

• Master Blaster
  Jun 21, 2025

He was drawing too much heat.

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• Japan
• (clothing • crime • fashion • fraud • long sleeves • police • Saitama • special fraud • summer)

Hokkaido police refuse to acknowledge theft that really seems like a theft

• Master Blaster
  Jun 13, 2025

Unfortunately, not technically being a theft won’t bring the victim’s car back.

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• Japan
• (crazy • crime • fraud • Hokkaido • law • police • theft • weird)

8 people arrested for being fake fortune-tellers, as opposed to… real fortune-tellers?

• Master Blaster
  Jun 7, 2025

Next bad horoscope I get, I’m pressing charges!

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• Japan
• (crime • fortune-tellers • fortune-telling • fraud • psychics • Tokyo Metropolitan Police)

Foreign-born convenience store manager in Japan saves elderly customer from being scammed

• Casey Baseel
  May 30, 2025

Senior regular customer’s shopping trip was very different, and much more expensive, than his usual ones.

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• Japan
• (COK • convenience stores • crime • foreigners in Japan • fraud • fraudsters • Lawson • scammers • scams)

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