A 22-year-old Japanese woman has been arrested for allegedly swindling over ¥400,000 from a man in his seventies. The pair met on a dating app. Kanon Hiroshige is suspected of fostering romantic feelings in the man to induce him to send money, and even staging a ruse to make it appear as though she had died from an illness. The company employee from Yokohama has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. Between last year, when she was a university student, and this year, she allegedly made false claims to a man in his seventies who was smitten with her. She told the man she needed ¥420,000 for ...

Former Japanese porn star Rei Chinatsu (千夏麗) has been arrested for an alleged romance scam with a man she met through social media. The 26-year-old has appeared in several adult video releases, with 12 titles currently listed on Fanza, Japan's largest online porn retailer, though this includes anthology-type releases with footage from multiple performers' previous releases. Most of her releases have a schoolgirl theme and seem to date from 2019. Her other performer name was Nozomi Nakase. She is not currently active as a professional performer, it seems. The allegation is that ...

Papakatsu is the new "sugar daddy" genre of compensated dating. For some, it's an easy way for guys who are middle aged or older with some money to have sex with younger women. For others, it's a way to fall victim to crime. In May, a man was almost murdered by woman who looked in reality very different from the cute lady in the pictures she put online. Now comes a fresh cautionary tale. A 25-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. According to media reports, the host-addicted Mai Watanabe is accused of swindling three men out of ¥156 million through a romance scam. She ...