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Japanese elementary school teacher under fire after selling students’ personal info online
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Scott Wilson
Jan 30, 2022 - Tweet
“Hey, how’d you get our personal information?” we ask a Japanese telemarketer
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Casey Baseel
Nov 10, 2021
They asked Seiji if he wanted to get into the real estate game, but Seiji wanted to know how they got his number.
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