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investment fraudsThe Asahi Shimbun
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A 39-year-old company employee received a message from his “mentor” on the Line messaging app that sounded too good to be true.
Deceived by this post, the man living in Sendai ’s Izumi Ward was defrauded of upward of 1.6 million yen .
It's typical of investment scams that are rapidly spreading on social media sites throughout Japan .
Data compiled by the National Police Agency on investor swindles on social media show the damage from that type of crime totaled 43.02 billion yen .
Victims were often led to Line chat groups and other platforms after they accessed online advertisements or responded to direct messages with invitations on social networking sites.
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