Japanese woman conned out of $30,000 by ‘astronaut’ who promised marriage but was ‘stuck’ in space

Yahoo ^ | 10/11/22 | Carl Samson

[DallasBiff]

A fraudster has taken international romance scams out of this world by claiming to be an astronaut and conning a 65-year-old woman out of millions of yen, Japanese police announced last week.

The scam reportedly began when the pair corresponded through Instagram on June 28. The con artist, who has yet to be identified, claimed to be a Russian cosmonaut working in the International Space Station (ISS).

Romance between the two quickly blossomed. The “astronaut” eventually expressed his intent to marry the Japanese senior but said he could not leave the ISS unless he had enough money.

“Even if I say it 1,000 times and it won't get across, I will keep saying it. I love you,” the trickster allegedly told the woman.

[KarlInOhio]

We easy had over a million .... Yen ...

You should have banked in Zimbabwe dollars where everyone was a trillionaire.

And as a little side note, one of the best investments I've seen (but didn't take part in) was the 100 trillion Zimbuck bills. Prices for them as collectors items have gone up. If you had bought stacks of them when they were cheap and sold them now you could have made a stack of real money. Or you could have been wiped out if the quadrillion Zimbuck bill had been printed and no one wanted the 100 trillion.