Anyone ever fallen prey?

[osopolar]

Always see it on the news.. Hear it every so often on the announcements over the yuusen.. and thought of asking you all here.

-If at all- how many of you have fallen prey/victim of 'Furikomi' Sagi and/or 'Ore ore' Sagi?

[Taro Toporific]

...how many of you have fallen prey/victim of 'Furikomi' Sagi and/or 'Ore ore' Sagi?

Gaijin are naturally immune to 'Ore ore' Sagi---No family obligations are so overriding as to compel a gaijin to send money to an unknown Japanese family member. Basically, the 'Ore ore' Sagi only works with the senile or weak minded.

'Furikomi' Sagi (old FG thread) must happen all the time, even to gaijin. If some (fake) business sent me threatening legal letters about a trivial bill that was less than 5,000yen, I might conceivably pay it just to stop the nuisance.

[osopolar]

'Furikomi' Sagi (old FG thread) must happen all the time, even to gaijin. If some (fake) business sent me threatening legal letters about a trivial bill that was less than 5,000yen, I might conceivably pay it just to stop the nuisance.

I saw the old thread and thought about mentioning it, but the question here is a little different than that original post (maybe?).

It must happen to Gaijin, but has it in fact? Anyone here? I'd be curious to hear/read any.

[omae mona]

I saw the old thread and thought about mentioning it, but the question here is a little different than that original post (maybe?).

It must happen to Gaijin, but has it in fact? Anyone here? I'd be curious to hear/read any.

I have a feeling the most common "sagi" affecting FG members is a good old fashioned drink spiking in Roppongi. Anybody end up with unusual credit card bills?

[FG Lurker]

Years ago I received a couple of those "you need to pay us for your deaikei site membership" scam messages on a mobile. I've never signed up for a deaikei site so it wasn't too hard to figure out that these were scams. Ignored them and never heard another thing.

I'd say the average gullible gaijin is more likely to fall for a Nigerian 419 scam than anything Japan based.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I'd say the average gullible gaijin is more likely to fall for a Nigerian 419 scam than anything Japan based.

I agree.
But, speaking of Nigerians, you should have seen the deal I got into recently...it was simply irresistable.
This guy who contacted me can get his hands on an account with $125 million dollars and he's gonna give me half. But he needed $25,000 to pay for bank transfer fees. I wired it to him a couple of weeks ago and now I'm just waiting to roll back with all that money.
I'm glad you reminded me of this. I haven't heard from him for a few days now, so I'll dash off an e-mail to see how things are coming on....

[Cyka UchuuJin]

when i was packing up my apartment i listed things for sale on a few of the sites for both gaijin and japanese. advertised that i had a lot of clothing for donation to a worthy cause and got a reply from a woman claiming to be a single mother of two, husband left her and doesn't pay support and could i donate not just the clothes but anything else on my sale list for her to furnish her bare apartment. ended up giving her quite a lot of household things, which i then found listed for sale by her on the same site. another friend of mine told me that he got the same sob story when he listed his sayonara sale a couple months earlier.

guess it's not really a scam to do a turnaround like that to make money, but it's still pretty fucked up.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I think the most common scam a gaijin guy is suckered with is marrying his cute sweet accomodating subservient Japanese girlfriend only to find out after he puts the ring on her finger that it was a honey trap and she's really a miserable controlling bitch who keeps his balls in her purse and an iron grip on his money. Luckily I haven't fallen for that one yet.

[Behan]

I think the most common scam a gaijin guy is suckered with is marrying his cute sweet accomodating subservient Japanese girlfriend only to find out after he puts the ring on her finger that it was a honey trap and she's really a miserable controlling bitch who keeps his balls in her purse and an iron grip on his money. Luckily I haven't fallen for that one yet.

No truer words, or warning, have ever been spoken.

[SpikeX]

I think the most common scam a gaijin guy is suckered with is marrying his cute sweet accomodating subservient Japanese girlfriend only to find out after he puts the ring on her finger that it was a honey trap and she's really a miserable controlling bitch who keeps his balls in her purse and an iron grip on his money. Luckily I haven't fallen for that one yet.

uh oh

[Catoneinutica]

Gaijin are naturally immune to 'Ore ore' Sagi---No family obligations are so overriding as to compel a gaijin to send money to an unknown Japanese family member. Basically, the 'Ore ore' Sagi only works with the senile or weak minded.

'Furikomi' Sagi (old FG thread) must happen all the time, even to gaijin. If some (fake) business sent me threatening legal letters about a trivial bill that was less than 5,000yen, I might conceivably pay it just to stop the nuisance.

It seems like doing this would invite an avalanche of further nuisance...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Samurai_Jerk again.

Greatest observation EVER!

And, shit, I have been gullible enough to fall for that....on an Elizabeth Taylor scale. I have been married so many times now, I just leave out the "i" now because that's always how it ends up anyway.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

I think the most common scam a gaijin guy is suckered with is marrying his cute sweet accomodating subservient Japanese girlfriend only to find out after he puts the ring on her finger that it was a honey trap and she's really a miserable controlling bitch who keeps his balls in her purse and an iron grip on his money. Luckily I haven't fallen for that one yet.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Samurai_Jerk again.

[IkemenTommy]

[Behan]

[osopolar]

[canman]

So this Ore ore scam has been exported to Canada. But there they are calling it the Grandson scam. I thought for sure there may have been a few Japanese names on the list of perpetrators, but there were none. NHK did a piece about this last week. I wasn't sure if they wanted to show that there are other despicable people out there, or that Japan is still able to export things.
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/943843--seniors-targeted-in-grandson-scam

[matsuki]

[Greji]

My old lady got a call one night saying that the guy was a policeman and that I had been in an accident and money was needed for the accident and hospital expenses. She told him to "take the mf to jail, 'cause he ain't ever given me any money and I don't want to see the 'son of a bitch' again!" The dude hung up and nobody ever called back.

[AlbertSiegel]

My old lady got a call one night saying that the guy was a policeman and that I had been in an accident and money was needed for the accident and hospital expenses. She told him to "take the mf to jail, 'cause he ain't ever given me any money and I don't want to see the 'son of a bitch' again!" The dude hung up and nobody ever called back.

Did she know it was a scam when she said that? LOL!

[Greji]

Did she know it was a scam when she said that? LOL!

I was up in Sapporo on a business trip and had just called her from my hotel (well actually from a joint in Suzukino).

But, she probably meant it anyway. She been uppity for quite a few decades now...