0:00 [Music] AOL. What the exist? I know >> who just shut down. Yahoo. >> Someone just got bobbed. >> Starts. >> Hey, woman was duped by a romance scammer posting as an astronaut in distress. >> You got to give them credit for these stories. >> Say that one more time. >> You know what? A woman was was duped by a romance scammer posting as an astronaut who's in trouble. >> So this guy's this guy makes a hinge profile that he's stranded on the moon. >> So check this out. >> I'm in Mars. I send me $2,000. >> Well, I need titties. >> I'm stuck on Mars. >> Yeah, dude. >> I knew you guys love this one. So check this out. A Japanese octagenarian. Shout out Japan. >> Hey, >> octagenarian.
0:50 >> I dropped out of college. >> Oh, okay. >> Japanese. It really does say that. See, now you guys know I'm not trolling. >> It's a 80-year-old, right? >> Uh uh. Yeah, she's very She's old. I don't know what we're >> I knew you weren't trolling when you pulled up AOL. It has to be fact. >> Uh she was swindled out of thousands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avoid to avert a spaceship crisis. >> So, she she lives in Northern Hokkaido Island. Nailed it. >> Hello. >> That's good. That's good. >> Met the fraudster, right? I can't wait for you to explain this why it happened. >> So, she met the fraudster in July on social media who claimed to be a male astronaut a a local police officer told AFP, I think that's the news outlet, describing the case as a romance scam. So, after some exchanges, the scammer one day told her he was quote in space
1:40 on a spaceship right now, but was quote under attack and in need of oxygen. >> Under attack. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we got aliens. >> So, if you sell me $1,000, I'll get more air. I can buy more oxygen. >> I need money cuz NASA paywalled all this stuff. >> He's like funding a power defense unit. >> He's like either I He's like they make me watch ads so I can get 30 seconds of oxygen or you can sell me some money. >> Send me 30 coins. >> Need to get a bigger gun to shoot these guys coming towards me. >> So uh so then Yeah. So she was like, "Oh man, that sucks. It's really bad. >> Got to buy him more mana." >> Yes. >> Yeah, dude. So, so he urged her to pay him online to help him buy oxygen and successfully hoodwinkedked around a million yen or >> That's a,000 bucks. I think >> 6,700 bucks. So close. >> 6700.
2:31 >> That's the wrong guy, dude. I can't math. >> I don't blame you. I can't either. The woman lives alone and started developing feelings for him as their online communication progressed. Local media, including Hokkaidu Broadcasting, nailed it. Hokaidu. Yeah. Sorry. >> Edit that out because I look dumb. >> You look like a Yoda alert. I look dumb. Repeat it. Replay it. >> No, no, no. I look dumb. If >> replay it says uh if a person the police are saying if a person you met online on social media ever demanded cash from you, please be suspicious of the possibility of a scam and report it to police. >> Yeah, that's like your ancestor is a king from outer space. Give $500 and you get 1,000 back. >> Your ancestor is Lord Zenu. >> This is this guy I think deserves every penny cuz he must have been like what? She He must have heard the thing from Zelip and he's like, "Oh my god, she fell for this ████ >> The space didn't work. I told you it was
3:21 going to work." >> Yeah. >> How buddy's like, "There's no way you're that good at sales." ████ ████ >> She been so jazzed when she started falling for them. Oh my god. >> What scams did he fail to get to outer space story? Like first my cat's sick, you know? I I >> How many Why did you redeem? >> He was watching the ████ Martian, dude. Like >> it just banked out of his brains bombs. All right, dude. I'm outer space and I need oxygen. >> I like the idea that you can send a guy 600,700 bucks and then NASA's going to ship you oxygen, >> dude. >> No, that's definitely how it works. >> Yeah, no question. >> Yeah, >> but the amount >> and the money has to go to space to come back to NASA. >> That's crazy. >> Our link, dude. >> Yeah, the amount that they spend per pound to send stuff to space. To think that is so unbelievable. >> To even believe we went to space.
4:11 >> Yeah. Hey, >> we're going to get to that. Yeah. Yeah. I figured that. So, they're both idiots. >> Yeah. >> You can't get through the glass. >> So, >> all right. Explain what the hell's going on in Japan, dude. >> I think there's a lot of lonely people out there. And if you give them a good ████ story, that's an exciting life. And they get tied into this whole situation. Every time I I I hear something like this, I think of True Lies where Bill Paxton's character is talking to Jamie Lee Curtis and he's like the used car salesman guy with like the cool car, but he's like he's like I'm a spy. I got to be honest. I'm a ████ spy. I'm I usually don't tell people this. And then and then he and then he's like grabbing her leg in the car and ████
5:01 like that. He's like, you're he's like, "What? You're you're a mom of how many people?" Oh, give me a break. You're a beautiful woman. That's all it takes? >> Yeah, dude. She's just she's a little lonely. Her husband's gone all the time. >> He's a real spy. That's kind of the crazy thing. But like, yeah, it's just you can fraud people really easily if you sell them a sexy story and like they're part of it. >> During the whole story, I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, what does he have to say to this Japanese lady to get her to catch feelings for you? Was it just like, I'm an astronaut. >> I work in space. >> Says hi. >> Lonely out there. I've been getting clips like, you know, street interview stuff in Japan and they say uh the it's like a huge trend. I've seen a bunch of them where they talking about cheating being like so normal. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. He also agrees. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. Cheating's hella normal. Also more
5:53 accepted. Well, I don't think they see it as cheating. I think if you bang a hooker, it's like not cheating. >> Yeah. Cuz you go home to your wife. >> Yeah. Right. That's >> That's the NBA cheating. >> That's the honorable way. >> Yeah. That's the NBA NFL cheat. They ████ a lot though cuz I worked at a Japanese company and everybody was ████ >> like >> I was ████ >> But I sleep next to you, babe. >> They they ████ a lot. >> Those guys are That's like the Don America. No, not Japan. Japan. >> They're they're Japanese people. Like they're from Japan. >> Most of them. >> Yeah. The interviews I think they're straight in Tokyo. The ones I was talking about. >> Really? >> Yeah. >> And what's depressing about it? Like >> just like real romance, loyalty, commitment. I think those are things we need. >> Okay. And these and these ████ are saying, "Nah, it's not out here." Yeah. Everyone, guys, girls, everyone's saying like, "Oh, we all cheat and it's all cool. You just don't talk about it." >> It's sad to see that some of the girls seem like they don't they wish it wasn't like that, but they're like, "That's
6:44 just how it is." Yeah. >> Joe's been telling us about this for years, honestly. That's true. >> Well, if they don't want that, then they just date uh black guys or foreign guys or something, but they all get cheated on. >> Oh, that's good. >> Black guys never cheat. Is that what That's a joke quote. >> They have a stereotype. >> You're wearing the wrong hat to say that. They think black guys are very romantic. >> Oh, >> so that's their that's like, "Oh, if you want to if you want to be romanced, then get with a black man." >> Just watch like one Usher music video and just >> That's true, man. >> Yeah, they are true R&B. Like, >> it works out pretty nice sometimes. Yeah, >> brother. >> That is a man flowy shirt. >> That is a fan on him. >> But you got to be able to sing though. >> Yeah. >> No, that fool can sing. >> That's what I mean. >> I'm falling in love with that. told that Seal's a good singer. >> No, he can sing. >> Nick, I don't think you understand,
7:34 dude. >> No, no, no. He can ████ shack. >> He can. >> So, apparently, >> who did he dated a supermodel, right? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. How do you clue him? >> How do you clue him? Exactly. So, apparently half of people who are using dating sites say they've come across somebody who's tried to scam them at some point. >> Oh, totally. >> Yeah. >> How about we just do a live thing where we just try to scam someone and see if we could get We don't take their money, but we get them to that point and then we just say, "Hey, we're JK News. Thanks for tuning in. an outer space idiot. >> We actually we actually did do that one time. We made a grinder profile with your face and >> and and a guy with a come dumpster icon who called himself ████ dumpster said he wanted to suck your dick. >> And to be fair, it was like 10 of those guys. I cleaned up shop 10 seconds after your account made. >> No, it was more of just like, dude, guys are gross. >> Within within 35 minutes, we had to close your account cuz it was getting
8:24 too it was like it was starting to phone was overheating. Dude, >> the demand is so high. >> Every man wants to ████ you. >> Well, it was it was the it was what he was making me say. >> That's what was really selling him up. >> He was like, "I'm just a little boy looking for love." >> Like, "I love fishing and pinball." They're like, "Oh my god, I love fishing." >> Yeah. Yeah. That's the crazy thing is we would >> we would say like, "Go to a rest stop and ████ >> we would say the dumbest things and then we we got we were on the receiving end of that feeling when like >> you can't lose. The guy already wants to ████ you, so he's just like, "I love that. That's great. That's what I want to do, too." >> Oh god. Too easy. >> I was trying to oppress him. He was like, "I got to drop off my sick mom at the hospital first or something." >> It's like, "Why are you trying? You already got it." >> Dude, see I'm really going to give it up. Seeing guys run game on guys is so disturbing, bro. Yeah.
9:15 >> Did you guys uh were you the hero for the JK News when that guy had like an invitation for a ████ and it was a curtain and his butt was ch just poking out and they're like, "Just open the door and ████ me." I I think I remember that one, but I don't know if I watched it or if I >> with a ████ shower curtain and his butt cheeks just hanging out ready and then so someone open the door, they just come in and they bone him. >> That's more efficient than Sister Hong. >> Oh yeah, that's >> a story that nobody came or something like that. The guy was just like the guy's just perched up. >> Any minute now, >> legs going numb. >> Oh god. Okay, >> guys are disgusting. Yeah, guys are pretty freaking gross. >> Guys are no one here and I'm like guys will, you know, Gio's like, "Oh, we had this article earlier and it's like this guy is like flirting with his his his
10:05 sister, this girl's sister." And Gio's so innocent and sweet and such a nice person. And she's like, "He's just being nice. It's fine." And I'm like, "Guys will stick it in your freaking ear, dude. And then they'll stick it in your butt and they'll try to put it back in your ear if you let them." This guy, like this guy is a sick bastard. He is absolutely flirting with this chick. He wants to ████ >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Like get it out of your heads, ladies. >> Girls are wrong about this stuff. Today.
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