A woman loses thousands of dollars to the romantic deception who thinks as an astronaut in distress, and the police say in Japan

Police said on Tuesday that one of the self -described astronauts sought to help avoid the spacecraft crisis.

A local police officer told AFP, describing the case as a Romance fraud process.

After some exchanges, the deception one day told her that “in space on a spacecraft is now” but it was “an attack and needed oxygen,” the official said.

Then he urged her to pay him online to help him buy oxygen, and she succeeded in getting about a million yen ($ 6700).

The local media, including Hokkaido Broadcasting, quoting the investigation sources, quoting the investigation sources, quoting the investigation sources that the woman lives alone and has begun to develop his feelings with their progress on the Internet.

The official said: “If the person who met him on social media demands money from you, then please be skeptical of the possibility of fraud and a report to the police.”

Japan has the second oldest in the world population After Tiny monaco, according to the World Bank, the elderly often fall prey in various forms of organized fraud.

These classic fraud include “It Me Me”, as the perpetrators of family members impersonate the problem Extracting money from the victim.

The police have warned against using ATMs to obtain “recovered amounts” of insurance installments or pensions that the elderly could be used to use ATMs to obtain “recovery” that is not present from their insurance installments or pensions.

Romantic fraudsters drain billions of dollars from people looking for love, and their tactics have evolved in evil ways in the Internet. More than 64,000 Americans have been transferred to more than a billion dollars in Romantic fraud operations In 2023 – $ 500 million doubled only four years ago, according to the Federal Trade Committee.

About half of the people who use Dating sites They say they encountered a person tried to cheat According to MP Bretani Petersen, Democrat Colorado, who says technology platforms need to do better work in protecting their users.

“Regardless of your progress in thinking about your ability to understand what exists, they will deceive many people and we really have to face it.” CBS News said last year.