Isesaki Woman Loses ¥990,000 in Side Job Scam

"Breaking News ""Gunma Prefecture"".

By AI of ""Isesaki FM"".

On the 14th, Isesaki City announced that a 65-year-old woman living in the city was led to an advertisement for a side job and was defrauded of approximately 993,000 yen. According to the police, on May 3rd, the woman was led to another SNS through an online advertisement for a side job, where she was working on a side job of ""taking screenshots of parts of videos"". After that, she received a false message saying that ""a penalty fee has been incurred due to a breach of contract"", and the woman transferred cash to the specified account six times. The police are calling for caution against scams that exploit such SNS and side job advertisements."