0:00 hey yeah hello Kimiko [Laughter] yes sir help me [Music] and today we bring you another scam story huh what's this game what's the skin what do you guys think the scams about what's the industry of scamming what's the location at ooh this one uh outer space technically whoa what the hell let me scam some aliens what's your theory can they scam some alien like how the aliens came and then the governments like hey let's scam these guys okay how do you think okay let's scam these guys they're the aliens got there and they're like hey
0:50 you know um so everyone on this planet's actually gone already so you're a little late to the party and then the aliens are like all right so they just left so that was the scam that's it no monitoring they just live straight up lied dude so close man so close spot on almost huh yeah almost they saved the world out of the scam I'll stick in Russia Maybe how the ████ do you know that well only a few countries have access to space look at you you're ████ hot wow and Russia seems kind of shady these days I don't think so man so so a man claiming to be a Russian astronaut in space allegedly scammed a Japanese woman into paying for his return trip to Earth for an astronaut food vowing to marry her once he landed whoa wow it ████ got this dress that
1:42 worked Cafe dude that's the new move man from space yeah you got to get more creative you know yeah use the photo booth ████ uh it's like Fast and Furious 12.00 yeah hello Kimiko [Laughter] yes sir no I can't suck I ran out of oxygen buddy I'm gonna die damn that's the ultimate coverage here we go yeah this uh the man found the 65 year old unnamed victim on Instagram now we know it's Kimiko it's chemical yeah her name is uh so he found her on Instagram in June on his profile he uploaded random photos
2:33 of space and said he worked at the International Space Station that's all you got to do these days I knew his ISS ████ another one of those where astronauts have limited access to cell service their relationship quickly escalated and on the Japanese messaging app line he repeatedly said he loved her and proposed marriage whoa messages like quote I want to start my life in Japan and saying um things like this one thousand times won't be enough I'll keep saying it I love you so you like really ████ played to her Hearts right but to actually tie the knot he said he needed money to return to Earth a second space the space toll because a ████ Chevron
3:23 what doesn't accept card up there were there were Landing fees obviously to pay once in Japan and the cost of a rocket to actually fly to the country um believing this man would be her future fiance the woman paid him about 4.4 million yen which is about thirty thousand dollars in five installments from August 19th to September 5th sad sad bro but when his demands continued the woman grew suspicious of his intent and reported him to the police who invest the Space Police the space to to uh to uh what's his face from from the office what's his name Steve Carell Steve Carell yeah there it is a ████ yeah um but yeah like when his demands continue she reported to the police who are investigating the case as a romance scam uh romance scams when a criminal
4:15 creates a fake online identity to gain a victim's trust to dupe them into sending that money has been increasing in Japan specifically because they're lonely out there man yeah they are lonely out there huh it wasn't very trusty wasn't uh Joe talking about how their like population is like declining and stuff too so they're probably not getting the you know the ugly bumpings going on and the in-cell rates going up too there's like a statistic on that yeah that's what Joe says it's a national average what do you check stats the website the national website for Japan how do you spell that uh Nippon inside daily that's what it was [Laughter] excuse me updates to the day every day and updates no scams here yeah updated daily it's
5:07 sad that like you know how like elderly people do get scammed a lot but it sucks that like when you think about damn how do you get to 65 in like amass that amount of knowledge to be scammed by something that dreamy that like space was around when she was young I think it's the platform you know what I mean maybe she's 65 she knows things about like the the broader world but like once it goes to Instagram Suddenly It's like if you haven't been scammed by social media everybody yeah everyone's everybody has got yeah everybody has got that's really sad and I think for older people it's just how they get got is on a way crazier scale yeah it's like when we get caught on social media for the first time we're like still young so our scams are relative to our our age right but like an adult that's an Intergalactic grift like it's not even this is newsworthy let's be fair about
5:57 that this is newsworthies I guess cam on Instagram by buying a pair of shorts I'm like oh these are cool like I'm gonna buy these and then you're like what the ████ barbell not even that it's it's like it's like it's a sponsored one right I buy it it comes like 10 weeks later it's only from China right and I get it in this ████ bag and I'm like this looks nothing like what I bought yeah they just send you some random ████ that's how I got got so I feel exactly what she's feeling yeah really similar I don't know if that's getting God or not no no I spent 24.99 and I spent an extra 49 for shipping and I got up 49 for shipping is really good yeah but it wasn't as advertised like the space man she bought but that's like the equivalent would be a guy messaging you from ████ space saying I found some shorts can you pay me money I'll send them to you yeah found some shorts on a ████ asteroid it was kind of
6:48 like that if you think about it it's so far out that it's like damn Kimiko come on let me go I guess I guess uh Japanese chicks really like space or maybe her desire for love was just that intense that she wanted to believe anything that was outer space but these guys that are missing something in their life so bad and they're getting sold a dream you know like these people know how to Target the heartstrings that's true they are really good because how many other people has he done that to but that's also why sometimes I blame the victim I'm a victim blamer myself I have people let's uh let's quote that one you know when you go when you get like the uh have you guys ever participated in the Nigerian prince Camp yeah so participated yeah so in college oh like you try to go along with it yeah yeah like in college um I was selling these like subwoofers on Craigslist I don't want them anymore
7:38 and then um like I think I've done enough shady ████ where I could just smell Shady like right off the bat so this email comes back all ████ formal and ████ with like way too much information and details trying to be like super proper I'm like oh this is but I'm interested because I've never participated in one before yeah so so he pretty much said like um oh yeah I would love these speakers they fit my car perfectly I did all the measurements and you know and then he was like but the problem is um like the only way for me to send you money is we have to like sync our accounts so if you if I'll send you I'll send you like 10 G's uh through like Western Union or some ████ and then uh you just need to send me back like a grand or something like some ████ like that oh no you send me back 90s because I think I was selling Silvers for like a grand so like obviously the math is like I'm like no one like bets
8:29 like if you play poker no one bets 20 G's to make a hundred dollars like that's ████ dumb and then I was like but it was so interesting that I was like oh you know what like um I actually can't read that well I'm like can we jump on the phone and he actually jumped on the phone with me tight and then you can hear like it sounds like a satellite phone where it's like it's just like a Dorito bag but then it would have like a two second delay and all that stuff and I was like oh man these guys are getting really really like committed and I was like okay what's the next step and we'll send you the checks so they actually sent me checks and it's printed on like cashier's check paper wow there's texture to it yeah and I'm like holy ████ this is crazy and I even wanted to just test to see like if it how far I would go so I think I went to the post
9:19 office or Western Union wherever you cash those things and I try to cattle oh man this is fake dude I was like damn it because I thought I could scam him dude there's got to be I'll just keep the tensions for sure I forget what the name is but there's a YouTube channel of a guy who's a hacker and he scams the scammers Steve Green comedy I've seen yeah it's a dude that like gets on their webcams or ████ right yeah does he ever take money from them nah he's like an ethical no but he deletes like he he finds a way to get into the laptop and he deletes their files yeah he ████ the company that's like because it's a whole floor of people how to do it I forgot what country it's in but then he he like found out the whole floor and they all like yeah I think it's in India or Bangladesh but then like because the country that they're in also doesn't want them doing that so he'll report them and the cops in that area will like
10:10 take it down dude that guy should ████ vigilante heroism ████ and just attack everybody that's doing that ████ and just like I would I would I would donate to his cause like we all donate to conium all right but that's what he's trying to do is he's trying to set up an actual task force like a department that handles that like foreign scamming because there is none really there's no specialized Department that'll like take it down he wants to start it but like for Interpol or some ████ yeah but then he said like you can't take him down faster than they can go back up like there's no way you know but still tired yeah but he learns their names like he gets their files uh I think he he had at one point deleted the majority of the stuff on this guy's computer and they got the scammer started to realize that and he was begging him to to get his face freaking out start freaking out ████ ████ dude dude they should have a class like that in school where
11:01 they teach you like about scam awareness like when you're younger so it's like hey you know look out for these red flags basic hacking skills well do you think that they teach kids now like about online Predators because that's a ████ rule that's more important than being scammed is like having some like dude trying to meet up with you when you're a kid like that's ████ oh I know we got Chris Hanson for that we got they need to teach that ████ kindergarten [Applause] [Laughter] Ryan's The Stranger [Music]
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