fraud

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

Gotta change ‘em all.

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Father and son arrested for impersonating Shohei Ohtani to commit fraud

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

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

He was drawing too much heat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Yakuza member arrested for renting a car once in 2022

Crime does pay but gets arrested for it.

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

No sympathy for this devil.

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

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

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Yakuza family speaks out against rise in organized crime

Not their kind of organized crime, the bad kind.

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

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

New bills go into circulation this summer.

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

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

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Nagoya elementary students caught defrauding classmate for nearly 1 million yen

Money spent on souvenir tokens and Canadian currency.

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

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

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Aichi man arrested for impersonating Aichi boy to gain social support

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

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Japan considering restricting senior citizens’ access to ATMs

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

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

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

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

Ground control to major fraud…

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Yakuza bosses struggling to upgrade phones from 3G

Crime lords getting shaken down by telecom giants.

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