Duped girl scams 1.2 mil. yen using same trick

Mainichi Daily News ^ | 18 Octoner 2002 | No Byline

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KOBE -- A teen-ager has been arrested for swindling some 1.2 million yen by conning victims that she had concert tickets for a top all-boy pop group, the exact same scam she had fallen victim to earlier this year, police said.

The unnamed girl, 15, has admitted to the charges following her arrest on Thursday. "After I was conned, I thought this was an easy way to make money," the girl reportedly told investigators.

In April this year, the teen-ager, of Aioi, Hyogo Prefecture, lost 180,000 yen after she responded to a fake ad posted on a mobile phone message board that offered popular concert tickets.

Determined to make up the loss, the girl started doing the same scam, police said. From April to July, she posted messages offering concert tickets for all-boy pop group "Arashi" and made her victims deposit money into her mother's bank account.

She duped the victims by saying that her boyfriend works for the pop group's promoting company, Johnny's Jimusho, so he could arrange precious tickets through his connection.

Police have identified three victims, including a 15-year-old high school girl from Chiba and a 25-year-old Okayama Prefecture woman, who paid a total of 600,000 yen to the girl. Investigators are trying to determine the identity of the people who deposited a further 600,000 yen into the bank account in order to charge the teen-ager. (Mainichi Shimbun, Oct. 18, 2002)

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"After I was conned, I thought this was an easy way to make money," the girl reportedly told investigators.

Gotta love it-"There must be lots of people as dumb as I am"

[john in missouri]

How much is that in pesos?

[dighton]

Lively stories, Mainichi Shimbun, also favorite here!

[BlessingInDisguise]

1.2 million yen? What is that about $4.75?

[GATOR NAVY]

1.2 million yen is about $10,000. Nice chunk of change for a 15 year old.

[GATOR NAVY]

I like WaiWai section, but must of those stories are a little too racy for FR.

[martin_fierro]

all-boy pop group "Arashi"

Forget about them -- watch YATTA! <|:)~

[primeval patriot]

http://www.xe.com

Universal Currency Converter™ Results

Live mid-market rates as of 2002.10.18 05:05:54 GMT.

1 JPY = 0.00799418 USD

1 USD = 125.091 JPY

1,200,000.00 Japan Yen = 9,593.010 United States Dollars

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Holy Crap!

[dighton]

Please, this is award-winning journalism!

[martin_fierro]

So she turned around and scammed $9600 after initially losing 180,000 Yen, or $1,438.34 U$. Yikes!

[GATOR NAVY]

They had an article the other day on how it wasn't any fun being an "upskirt" secret photo perv anymore because the young girls now don't care if they flash a little panty to the oyaji and that takes away from the "forbidden pleasure" aspect. LMAO.

[section9]

That experience can only bring one, two word response from me:

Jesus tap-dancing Christ!

Okay, three words.

That was hideous. Awful. But funny.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[martin_fierro]

All Your Yatta! Are Belong To Us

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Japan to surpass Nigeria?

[vollmond]

I would like to thank you for adding another time waster to my daily browsing. Free Republic, 3 AM Girls, Slashdot, and now the Mainichi Daily news.

[GATOR NAVY]

I would like to thank you for adding another time waster to my daily browsing.

You're welcome ;-)

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Japan to surpass Nigeria?

Good day to you, sir. I am in desperate need to transfer $10,000,000 in concert tickets from my country and only need your bank account number...

[I still care]

Thanks for the milk in my keyboard. We are in hysterics here. Where did you get this link from!!!??

[martin_fierro]

Got it here:

http://www.mit.edu/people/patil/yatta.html

You also saw the original one from post #7, right? Hee hee! <|:)~