Record Romance Scam: Over 170 Million Yen Lost.

Breaking News "Gunma Prefecture".

Thanks to the AI of "Isesaki FM".

A 62-year-old woman from Takasaki City lost 176.86 million yen to a social media romance scam.

This is the highest amount ever recorded for a special fraud in the prefecture.
In November of last year, the woman began communicating with a person who claimed to be a man she had met through social media.
He told her he had a stable income from trading electronic gold, and led her to another app,

purchasing a total of more than 157 million yen in crypto assets under the pretext of investment. She was also charged taxes, and ended up transferring approximately 18 million yen to a specified account. The woman became suspicious and checked the site, only to find that it was already inaccessible, and she realized she had been scammed.