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

• Master Blaster
  Jun 21, 2025
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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)

Yakuza member arrested for renting a car once in 2022

• Master Blaster
  Apr 21, 2025

Crime does pay but gets arrested for it.

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• Japan
• (business • car rental • contracts • crime • fraud • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • police • Saitama • yakuza)

Thinking she was giving money to Mick Jagger to invest for her, woman conned in Aomori

• Master Blaster
  Mar 20, 2025

No sympathy for this devil.

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• Internet, Japan
• (Aomori • crazy • crime • fraud • Mick Jagger • music • Rolling Stones • scams • weird)

Japanese man arrested for fraud after creating female AI-image persona to sell dating advice【Vid】

• Elliot Hale
  Dec 14, 2024

One man’s virtual avatar shows that online fantasy can have real-life consequences.

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• Japan
• (AI • beautiful women • COK • crime • fraud • social media)

Yakuza family speaks out against rise in organized crime

• Master Blaster
  Nov 28, 2024

Not their kind of organized crime, the bad kind.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • fraud • Organized crime • social media • society • weird • yakuza • yami baito • yamibaito)

Yakuza member arrested on charges of using insurance to pay for severed finger treatment

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 12, 2024

Don’t chop off your own finger if you’re not prepared to pay out of pocket to get sewn up afterwards.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • finger • fraud • pinky • weird • yakuza • yubitsume)

Japan is changing its yen bills soon, so beware of scam artists, government warns

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2024

New bills go into circulation this summer.

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• Japan
• (fraud • money • scam artists • scams • yen • yen bills)

Shohei Ohtani’s personal interpreter fired, accused of “massive theft” to pay off gambling debts

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 21, 2024

It’s a wild ending for one of the highest-profile pairings in the translation/interpretation world.

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• Japan, USA
• (baseball • crazy • crime • fraud • interpreter • Ippei Mizuhara • Shohei Ohtani • sports)

Nagoya elementary students caught defrauding classmate for nearly 1 million yen

• Master Blaster
  Mar 7, 2024

Money spent on souvenir tokens and Canadian currency.

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• Japan
• (COK • crime • elementary school • fraud • Nagoya • scam artists • scammers • scams • students • youth)

Japan’s new ATMs automatically play anti-fraud videos to people talking on mobile phones【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Feb 25, 2024

Japanese police using the latest in AI and hand-enlarging technology.

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• Japan
• (AI • ATMs • crime • fraud • Japan Post • Keita Tachibana • National Police Agency • society • special fraud • video)

Aichi man arrested for impersonating Aichi boy to gain social support

• Master Blaster
  Oct 10, 2023

Age ain’t nothing but a number, but it’s got to be the correct one.

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• Japan
• (Aichi • child welfare • crime • fraud • Nagoya • obstruction of business • teenagers)

Japan considering restricting senior citizens’ access to ATMs

• Master Blaster
  Jul 29, 2023

National Police Agency believe it’s for their own good.

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• Japan
• (ATMs • banking • COK • crime • fraud • money • ore ore sagi • scammers • scams • scoeity • senior citizens • seniors • yokinfusa)

Our reporter’s in relationship trouble after fake girlfriend loses $10,000 on a World Cup bet

• Master Blaster
  Dec 8, 2022

Can this romance fraud survive the stress of a lost bet?

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• Japan
• (fraud • Go Hatori • international romance scam • line • love • relationships • romance fraud • Singapore • soccer)

Shiga woman defrauded 4.4M yen by man asking for money to fly down from the ISS and marry her

• Master Blaster
  Oct 11, 2022

Ground control to major fraud…

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• Japan
• (crime • fraud • international romance scam • internet • ISS • social media)

Yakuza bosses struggling to upgrade phones from 3G

• Master Blaster
  Jun 8, 2022

Crime lords getting shaken down by telecom giants.

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• Japan
• (3G • contracts • crime • fraud • mobile phones • Organized crime • Organized Crime Exclusion Ordinances • Smartphones • yakuza)

Retired Member of Parliament arrested pretending to be active MP for first-class train tickets

• Master Blaster
  May 11, 2022

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for that meddling JR and its clerical errors.

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• Japan
• (crime • forgery • fraud • Green Car • JR • Member of Parliament • politics • shinkansen)

Nintendo issues warning about scam sites pretending to be the company’s official homepage

• Casey Baseel
  Jan 14, 2022

Sites offer deep discounts on Switch, but could be taking something else in return.

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• Internet, Japan
• (COK • fraud • fraudsters • nintendo • scam artists • scams • video games)

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