Scammer Dupes Elderly Japanese Woman out of $748k Worth of Crypto
A Japanese woman in her eighties was duped out of over $748,000 worth of tokens by a crypto scammer who told her that her bank account was under attack. Kyodo News (via Tokyo Shimbum) reported that the woman was contacte...
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Kyodo News (via Tokyo Shimbum) reported that the woman was contacted by a “person claiming to be an employee of the ward [local government] offices.”
The news outlet quoted the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Tamagawa station as describing the victim as “a woman in her eighties from Setagaya Ward, Tokyo.”...
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