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

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

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

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Saitama man repeatedly steals food from store by making his phone say “PayPay♫”

Crime doesn’t PayPay.

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People in Japan can now earn 10,000-yen bounties for scamming scammers

Turning the tables on the ore ore scam in Nagoya can leave you richer than you were before the attempted fraud.

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Kansai man arrested for defrauding his 35 girlfriends

He would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for his 35 girlfriends.

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Japanese woman reported to police for “not looking right in a suit,” turns out she’s a crook

How do scam artists keep getting caught in Japan by “not looking good in a suit?”

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Former idol singer arrested on fraud charges, police say she found victims through dating apps

Former SKE48 member claimed to be an investing expert with a can’t-fail get-rich-quick scheme.

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Foreigner convenience store clerk in Japan saves elderly woman from scammers with quick thinking

Refuses to give up when senior doesn’t realize she’s being taken advantage of.

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Oita woman loses lawsuit and pays damages without ever knowing she’d been sued

A frightening case of using the legal system to commit robbery.

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Family cheated out of 54 million yen by man impersonating Japanese rock star for three years

Suspect also convinced his own mother he was the Dir En Grey frontman for 10 years.

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