On December 4th, the Sapporo Atsubetsu Police Station announced that a social networking site-based investment fraud case had occurred in which a man in his 70s living in Atsubetsu Ward, Sapporo, was defrauded of a total of approximately 240 million yen in cash. According to the police, this is the largest amount of damage ever reported in a social networking site investment scam in Hokkaido. In early July 2024, the man was searching the internet for information on buying and selling stocks he owned when he found a website that offered free consultations about stocks, and was directed to a social media group calling itself a “stock investment study group.” Afterwards, a woman claiming to be an analyst at a securities company and another person claiming to be a real economist told me, “We will provide you with information about high-quality stocks,” and “If you open an account (which is limited to 300 people), you will get a tax benefit.” Furthermore, I was tempted by being told things like, “Normally, you can only buy a few hundred IPO shares, but through our own unique route you can buy over one million shares,” and “Since you are investing in IPO stocks, you will definitely make a profit.” The man believed this and, between September 11 and November 18, he used online banking to transfer a total of approximately 240 million yen to the specified account on 26 occasions, under the pretext of investing in stocks, and was defrauded. When the man made his 26th transfer, the other party told him that they had made a profit of 1.8 billion yen, so when he asked to cash it, he was told that he needed 50 million yen to cash it, so he sent the money. Later, when he asked for cash again, he was told that “your account has been frozen and we need 18 million yen.” This made the man suspicious, and when he consulted an acquaintance, he was told that he might have been scammed. On November 30th, the man himself consulted the police, and the incident came to light. The police are urging people to be careful, saying, “If someone you met on social media asks you to transfer cash to them, suspect it is a scam and contact the police.” stvnews 12/4 (Wed) 16:15 distribution.
Money is going to lose its value because of the inflation caused by Haruhiko Kuroda. Help me please. This has seriously increased the number of investment scams. The yen they scammed out would have been more valuable when the yen was strong.
If you’re in your 70s and have 200 million yen, I think it would be better to think about how to spend it rather than trying to increase it. If you indulge in normal luxury, you won’t be able to use it all up, right?
Just when I thought I saw a thread with 24 million, another one with an additional digit appeared. If you’re the one deceiving people, it’s hard to stop.
>>44 Personally, I was interested in forestry (aiming to improve productivity with reinforcement learning), but it seems like all the forests have been bought by someone. Stop it. Maybe we should prepare fertilizer storage facilities and wait for the war.
Any normal person would be outraged to death if they were told that they needed 50 million yen to cash out, but the fact that he had the financial means to go ahead and do it made him even more unhappy.
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