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I know he's "known for" being very happy and smiling in front of the camera but sometimes it just becomes a bit odd when it's about subjects like scams lol
I live in Japan and about 5 months ago, an old lady ( 60 - 70 ish years old) knocked on my door saying she was facing a hard time during corona and was selling produce she grew at her backyard to pay the bills. She was charging ¥500 ( a little less than 5 dollars ) for a cabbage, which is very expensive for a cabbage. My husband wanted to help so he bought the cabbage and when she handed him, it was the smallest cabbage I've ever seen. A while later I've talked to a neighbor about it and she said that the old lady did that even before the pandemic and she lived in a fancy house driving a new fancy car, she didn't need money at all as she was supported by her children. I was shocked!
She really screwed you over LOL But how xan she do that in the neighbourhood? There are these local police posts and the policemen there Knie exactly what is going on and who does what in their ward. So they should have stopped her already long ago?
That's not a scam but just some old, rich misers preying on good people's sympathy. I live in Bangkok, Thailand, where we can find a similar case of beggars who are actually rich, old folks with a lot of free time. So they decide to use their time wisely while the rest of their extended family members are at work or school, by leaving their houses everyday, putting on their shabbiest clothes and earning some easy money on the street. A lot of times people got confused seeing these poor ragged looking grandpas/grandmas getting in expensive cars and driving away 🤣
It will be like " Using that Scam tecnique he Scam 50 people at the same time , how cool is that" "After the meeting with his superior, His next task is looking for new victims ,Good luck friend"
The "grandchild calling" scam happens here in the U.S. My mother is 92 and she gets calls like that sometimes. She'll play along with them for awhile before calling them an idiot and hanging up on them.
I remember first hearing about the "It's me" scam when an article reported an old woman getting a call from someone claiming to be her granddaughter, so she asked the caller to verify her identity by naming all the (current) Pretty Cure - as it was her granddaughter's favorite show. The scammer hung up.
Having heard your last scam towards foreigners, I believe my daughter and I were targets of one last year on our trip to Shikoku. We were recomend by our lodging host to eat at his friends restaurant. We went in and were sat down up by the kitchen. We were never given a menu to order from. Then food was served, that we didn't order. We didn't know what to do, and thought perhaps our lodging host ordered something for us. Then we got the bill! It was $60 (Usd)for the 2 of us! A piece of fish and some vegetables. That was 2 days of our budget, gone! We told our host what happened. He acted like he didn't understand. Be careful out there!
This sounds like a scam. But it is normal to get something you didn't order. Many bars have kind of an "entrace fee" forget the name oft it. Were you get some tiny portion for around 400-500 Yen.
@@gloriouscock2793 I guess 60 $ was the meals budget for 2 days, not the complete budget for 2 days. Yoshinoya, serves tasty things for around 5 $. You can get enough food for one meal in a convenience store for 5 $. So I Guess you can calculate with 3 meals a 5 $ per person per day. You will miss out on some experiences because in my opinion the food is an important part of Japan. But Japan is expensive, if you don't have the money you have to cut down on something.
It's always best to find your own places to eat and drink. Don't take recommendations unless it's from someone you know personally. A lot of touts on the streets are scammers. Like those bars that say "All you can drink for 30 minutes for 3,000 yen". Those are scams.
This happened a couple times while I was in Japan. I’m not sure if it’s a scam or upselling to foreigners. When going to sit-down restaurants, the waiters would give us a menu, but when you choose an item, the waiter would say that’s not available and offer another item at a different (higher) price. It’s happened a couple times so I’m fairly suspicious.
Im a frequent traveller and I’ve seen this in a few places-they put a super-cheap special on a sign or sandwich board out front, to draw people in…and they say they ‘are out’ and since you’re already seated etc. you have to order a more expensive meal.
In the states we have an IRS tax scam. This typically happens around tax time, and you will get this call, with the person (or automated voice) claiming that there is an issue with your tax payment with the IRS, and that you have to call them at this particular number to resolve the issue. This is a major scam, as the IRS DOES NOT call people. They send out letters in the mail.
And anyway, if you get surprise mail/phone, look up the number. Any tax authority etc. will have a number on their website, and it's only the last few digits that change. If the number is wrong, you can drop them an E-Mail with the details. Either is was - surprise - a genuine call or they will give it to the police.
Having fallen for the bar scam myself when we were walking around Harajuku, these people prey on tourists. Sometimes they’ll just be standing there handing out flyers. Lesson learned the hardway. Thank you for putting this video up so that other people dont fall for it
How do you know you have been given an expensive bar menu? I live in an expensive city and local inflation has more than doubled the price of food and drinks. Will I even notice I have received an overpriced menu?
Proud to say I didn’t fall for that shit my first time in Japan. Immediately seemed super sus to me that anyone would have to ask or even try and bully customers to come into their bar, I guess it was a good instinct I had.
I was traveling in Japan with a friend in 2019 and a Japanese guy approached us saying he was trying to get people to come support his new bar that opened and they have specials for the night, as it was opening night. he was so friendly and convincing that we wanted to go and support him. We wanted to just eat something first. He took us and showed us where his place was and gave us a flier saying he will look out for us when we get there. We ate and it got late, and didn't feel like going anymore. I felt so bad that I wanted to go back the next day and make up for it, but never got around to it... Now I think I dodged a bullet... maybe it was a scam?
Actually sounds pretty legitimate to me. You would have been able to tell the moment you entered whether it was new or not, and if it wasn't you could have easily left. I've lived here for a long time and never heard of such a scam. Sounds like you just left a bro hanging on opening night 🥲.
I think Ore Ore scam exists in many countries, including where i live right now. It is easy to do and perpetrator's identity is safe while doing the scam. Just by saying, "hey it is me" or "how dare you forgetting your old friend/relative/family" and let the victims try their hard to remember and after they say the name, scammers can say "yes it is [name that they said earlier]".
Yes, I think so too. Here we call it "grandchild scam" because usually old people are targeted and people on the phone pretend to be a grandchild in trouble. Unfortunately scamming old people seems to be pretty universal 😢
Someday I will go to Japan. This channel motivate me to study hard and make me find a way to achieve my dreams. I really want to go to Japan, the food, places, people are so beautiful.
Right there with ya. Not just my dream of being published in Shonen Jump, but the feeling of home I get when I study the daily life and culture Only a few more years until it can happen!
You got it right! The food is delicious! The people are polite and helpful. The places are awesome and clean. The train and bus are on time! Vending machines on every block. 😂
You probably think the scams are beautiful too? Remember, many japanese don't like foreigners in their country. They are just being polite on the surface, but you already know this.
@@silveriver9 why would we find the scams beautiful lmaoooo I've done plenty of research and I'm sure they did too. I know full well that it'll be tough as a foreigner, but it's a challenge I'm willing to take :b
@@silveriver9 Yep, right. Nobita's Dating video about Tatemae and Honne should be mandatory for foreigners who want to visit Japan for more than a weekend 😉.
Love your stuff, man! I’ve learned a lot about Japan and the culture thanks to your videos and I hope to visit the country myself one day! Keep up the good work!
@@Sanctifires good choices 👍 - I would like to add a few more... Asagi's life, Ms Eats, Let's ask Shogo, Nobita's channel and Dark side of Japan Yuki. 😊 Edit: oh, I forgot to mention SHUNchan.
That really makes me sad that people can be tricked into believing a voice they don't recognize is a close relative, it's so common for people to be too busy or tired for family.
@@DeepestFour through his videos.I have been a subscriber for a long time here and i agree he is positive till a degree.But in the videos he always takes the positiveness to a higher level.
I spent 3 weeks in Japan with a friend and the last scam happened to us twice, once it Tokyo and once in Osaka. It wasn’t a humongous bill for European standards but we could tell that we’d been had after comparing the bill to other restaurants/bars. Especially since we only had some omelette and two glasses of Sake at one place.
On one trip to Tokyo I stayed in Kabukicho and got hit up for the bar scam a lot. Thanks to videos like yours I already knew it was nothing but trouble and avoided being taken.
We got scammed by a fake buddhist monk dude outside of a temple near Harajuku, said he was taking donations for the temple. Gave him 5000 yen. Then we walked like 20 ft down the road and saw a sign posted on a wall that had a drawing of the buddhist guy saying "DO NOT GIVE THIS MAN MONEY, HE IS A CHINESE SCAMMER!!!!!! THIS TEMPLE DOES NOT ASK FOR DONATIONS!"
One easy way is to remember it is not allowed for buddhist monk to beg or ask for donations(part of their beliefs) , so if one does it to you he is a fake
I think my brother and I fell for the last scam. We went to an izakaya with some friends and while I was trying to keep tabs on what we ordered the bill still came out to be extremely high. Nearly $160 at an izakaya, where we ordered 8 things and 4 drinks overall. Didn't understand what the bill said and there was a language barrier so who knows.
The "love scam" is definitely quite similar here in the Philippines. It's usually carried out by West African migrants with connections to a bigger organization outside the country. Their targets are mainly single or widowed women in their 40s to late 60s. They gain their trust with promises of love and fortune.
In Australia, especially tax season, we get a lot of fake calls from the “government” telling us we’re being fined or audited and then they’ll ask us to call a specific number straight away.
My estranged grandparents got a call a few months ago telling them that I was in jail in Dallas Texas and needed a $10,000 bill. Thankfully they reached out to some people to find out that I was not even in the city.
here in Argentina we have a lot of that call were a relative is in trouble supposedly and asks you for money, there was a recent case where an old lady gave all her savings to a man because he told her that her daughter was kidnapped, but the girl had been safe at her work all the time, and no harm was made...
I've noticed that a few of the scams in Japan, especially Targetting tourists, are done by non-Japanese. I'm thinking about Shibuya night Club gangsters, and Charity scammers at Train stations, etc.
Scams (or other small crimes) are generelly done by those who are poor and have no realitic hope of ending that. In most countries being foreign is 50% of the qualification for that situation. Of course it helps if you have no family etc. in the same town that you can shame with your behavior.
Not a scam, just legal fraud. Like paying 3000€ for a few 10 year old cheap IKEA furniture that you don't even want when you take over the apartment. Don't want to pay that? No problem, the next one will!
The last scam does remind me of some side quests in Yakuza games. Well, you play as the yakuza Kiryu (he goes back and forth about being a yakuza and quitting altogether) and, well, you beat the scammer, usually. 😅 See ya~! 😎
Every Yakuza games have side quest where Kiryu beat scammers. One of the most hilarious for me was the cult religious scammers in Yakuza 6 / Kiwami 2 (cmiiw).
Here in Philippines they let you wear the beads and say things like "it's good luck for health and money" then "the beads are for the person wearing it only, and it can't be passed to others" and then they will ask for payment since you are already wearing it🤣🤣
Here in Mexico, it is very common to receive phone calls from " one relative of yours being detained at the border when he/she was returning from the States" and were detained because they were bringing gifts to his family and they say that they're short of money and they ask you for a certain amount of it. many people were scammed, but not anymore
I find it so odd that people fall for bar scams. Just call the cops and when they say they can't do anything because its a business dispute, just refuse to pay and demand the scammer to sue you and walk out. They are not going to do anything to you because that will defeat the purpose. Its a scam, not a robbery.
The last scam does remind me of some side quests in Yakuza games. Well, you play as the yakuza Kiryu (he goes back and forth about being a yakuza and quitting altogether) and, well, you beat the scammer, usually. 😅 See ya~! 😎
My personal experienced once in Akihabara. There is one lady giving pamphlet on the sidewalk. I thought it’s just for advertise so I took it. Then that lady asked me to the gallery-lookalike shop (which is located at that spot because she stands in front of the shop). Then she told me to buy one of the shop’s stuffs. The cheapest one is the casual postcard for ¥1000. So I walked out asap but that was quite scary for me and I’ve never taken any giveaway stuffs ever since.
I think I’ve seen the lady and shop you are talking about and it’s not a scam. Yes, she is handing out flyers and if you take one she asks you to come in, which you can say no. And yes the merchandise is overpriced, but at no point are you forced to buy anything .
Scammers are everywhere around the world! So everyone needs to be careful! In America, the romance scam is a popular scam too. It is a good thing you made this video because people need to be aware of these scams.
man i need to watch more your japan videos! move to japan at the end of this month for rugby but im nervous for me and my family but watching these videos will give me hopefully more help haha.
I find it quite sad that people dont stay close to their elderly relatives as they get older, they should be doing the exact opposite if you ask me! And protecting them against scams such as the first
Elderly people are still people… And some people are shit people. Not everyone were blessed with loving relatives. Not many flips the question and ask why their parents/elderly don’t initiate contact on their own behalf. Relationships go both ways with both parts needed. Of course we should protect our elderly people especially those that are vunerable, but it’s very easy to forget to also treat them as humans that has lived their entire life capable of making their own decision up until the point they became vunerable, and unfortunately many made bad decisions without trying to redeem them and not even considering flipping that question but continue to victimize themselves so they don’t have to take any responsibility.
@@daveUK1066 Disrespect? It's just apathy. I'm in the group of people Moi described. I have lots of elderly friends, and I recently realized that so many elderly likes me *because* I love listening to them and to their stories. My own parents and siblings, however, our interaction is toxic because of our parents. That said, most Japanese people tend to have this concept of generational barrier when making friends? I generally make friends with people of all ages and one day one of my older Japanese friends told me that this is actually strange as, according to her, most people make friends with people their own age as they would have more things in common with each other. I later noticed that it also exist outside Japan and I wonder if that's a contributing factor to the disconnect. I never thought of it as protecting the elderly, but before COVID I ran annual practical workshops for the local community (especially the elderly) on how to protect their privacy and security online mainly because it's an area of interest and a local librarian gave me the idea to run the workshop at the library. There are many things we can do to help and the help don't have to come from relatives. Such as making them aware of such scams so if they get that call from 'relatives' in the future, we can teach them to ask the caller for proof that they are who they say they are.
@@julesverneinoz Hmmm, it's more that in Japanese culture it's hard to be friends with someone much older because you are supposed to have respect bordering on worship for them. It's probably going away a bit, as younger generations barely have time to have friends their own age any more, and are increasingly realising that the older generations don't deserve their respect (even if they might not say it out loud... that would be rude, after all)
dude, the last one almost happened to me in Poland. We were eating at a bar and this guy with two girls sat next to us, started talking to us, buying drinks and then offered to show us around. We accepted, he seemed like a nice guy. He had to leave for a quick phone call and one of the girls he was with told my friend that it was a scam. I dont know why she told us but we left immediately while the guy was busy.
04. I’ve got a story. A Japanese friend of mine fell for this one, 2 years ago. EXACTLY as you said, Paolo. Foreign military guy (claimed to be American, stationed in Afghanistan). She wasn’t actually interested in love, she claimed, although that’s the angle he initially tried. She just made a human connection with him… so when he told her he would be killed if he didn’t come up with money to bribe his way out of the country, she wired it to him. I don’t remember exactly, but I think the total was close to 100,000 US$. BUT… Ironically, our mutual friend that attempted to come to her rescue and helped her deal with the emotional aftermath of it all ended up falling in love with her… and they are in fact married now. So it lead to love after all.
One of the things to keep in mind when travelling is to never trust touts, "friendly people", pretty girls/handsome guys offering to show you around, tour guides, people handing out flyers/handouts, etc. You'll just end up overpaying for food, drink, souvenirs, or some other item. Just go to a well known fast food chain or a resto away from tourist trap areas to be on the safe side.
I hope you and your family stay healthy and safe. We get the same scams in USA. Got a new one two days ago. Scammer says I have 18 bank accounts and have funneled millions to drug cartels in South America. I have 4 warrants out for my arrest. It's crazy, they keep coming up with more and more scams trying to get your information. Imagine what they could do if they applied that effort and creativity constructively for something positive.
#1 I'd argue its a good reason to never give money to anyone, regardless of family closeness. Family ties I'd argue is a huge scam (my opinion). In the US that scam is often run requesting bail money for a grandchild or child who got into trouble.
The bigger scammer the US prison system though. (And the US maybe the only country where this scam works.) If it's more likely for a black boy to go to prison than to university, something is deeply wrong with that country.
I work at a call center for a city hall in Tokyo. And we receive many phone calls from elderly people regarding 5:03 Tax Refund Scam😞. They receive suspicious call, so they call us to check if it's scam or real. I feel so bad to elderlies are targeted. I hope it won't happen anymore..
Sounds a lot like "This is [insert name here] from the IRS. You owe us $x dollars and if you don't give it to us , we will take legal action against you. Call us now to fix this!" The IRS only contacts people by mail IIRC.
@@petersmith4771 What baloney. People fall for the most basic scams... And they target both young and old vulnerable people such as teens in care homes and elderly women living alone. Scams can be as simple as love scams, for which some teenage girls but also lonely women in their 30s+ fall for within hours or days. There are fake charity collectors, beggars that fake disability, people that come to your house because they 'just need your phone for an emergency', alternative 'healers', etc. etc. To think the scams in the Netherlands are worse per se because Dutch people aren't gullible is the most idiotic thing I ever heard.
@@petersmith4771 My comments don't get deleted. I thought so too at first, but when I refreshed they were there again... I see all the automated scammer comments, but I don't pay attention to them. To me it is like advertisement. I just try to not see it, which works most of the time. I guess the comments section is messed up because of all the spambot activity... The RUclips video viewer count and comments have to be synced between many local servers around the world. So don't worry. Nothing 'wrong' here. And I am no bot, thank you ;)
omg this just made me remembered me and my husband got scammed in Kyoto the 1st time, there was a small arcade and someone gave me this ticket for a "FREE" go .... I showed the guy the machine I wanted to play, so he took the ticket and showed me how "easy" it was to win, when he said r u ready? he asked me to pay TT TT I was like ok, it was more expensive than usual and obviously I lost after 1 try he then tried to be friendly and ask us to play more but then I realised and just ran out @__@... I guess it wasn't such a big scam but still could of got more gatcha with what I spend there TT TT ... also I live in England and yh most of these scams sound pretty similar.
Nice info as always! I'd like to second the idea of tourist scams mentioned by at least one other here. For example, I have heard that fake monks hang out in the Asakusa area selling fake charms or outright asking for donations! In other areas, in NYC there are many dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, Spiderman, etc. They are very friendly and offer to pose for a picture. In Korea, near some tourist attractions, I've been accosted by people offering to be your guide. In both, the "scam" was fairly obvious and avoided both. Not so much a scam, but in Europe on 2 occasions, someone tried to open my pack when it was on my back. Again, obvious but one tends to get a bit lax living in Japan. I'll be glad when we can all travel again though!
Scams are everywhere my friends! Even in the nice country of Greece! These scams, I'm sure Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku players are pretty familiar with some. The ore ore one mostly
Something similar to the "ore ore scam" happened to my mom, she got a call from someone pretending to be me, the caller said that he had been arrested in Mexico for some type of crime, and that he needed $10,000 to get bailed out of jail and pay fines...she told him to hold on, funny thing is that I was sitting across the table from her, and she asked me joking "what crime did I do in Mexico?" handed me the phone and I asked the guy who he was, he gave my name I said "Really? because that's me" dude hung up quickly.
I visited Japan once in the 90's and almost fell for a scam. This lady I went on two dates with told me she loved me, she couldn't live without me, that I should move in with her, marry her, that I could even quit my job and just be a house husband and she'd provide for me. Luckily I knew better than to fall for it.
Tourists should be also careful when a girl approaches them in a club, my friend got his drink spiked by a local girl when he was in a club in Tokyo and when he woke up in the morning, he was in a room with the girl and some other guys and they didn’t let him leave until he paid them money 😅😅😅
all of these are pretty standard in canada as well. we also have the online shopping scam, where someone try to buy whatever you're selling online but send you a fake email saying money is transfered to your paypal account; and ask you to ship the item. basically if they never try to haggle your prices, it's probably too good to be true.
This seems like nothing, like literally nothing compared to what happens in India. And I am an Indian. The amount of times I get cheated at the very same place I was born and raised makes me question my whole existence 😂😘😘
I forgot which channel I watched. And they was giving a story about a businessman constantly sending him like sushi dishes or something. And I guess the waiter was saying like "It's from that man over there". And in the end the traveler got hit with the bill. And really it turned out that the businessman was basically pranking the traveler into eating really weird stuff and seeing how far he could go with it. I've also heard the horror stories of travelers going to a bar and then waking up in the bar and finding their money all gone.
Hey Paolo, I know this idea may sound weird, but I think that a day in the life of a Japanese guitar maker would be a really cool video. Japanese guitars are well known to be some of the best made so it would make sense to see a day in their life.
There's a video on the channel of 'Tokyo Lens' where he got his own custom made Shamisen and films the maker. Edit: I know, it's not a guitar maker. But at least it's as close as one can get for traditional Japanese crafts and musical instrument makers. 😉
Interesting video! I think it would also be interesting to know how the scammers are being treated by the authorities if they get caught. Are there strict punishments about this kind of scams, or they are considered a minor issue?
Here in Brazil, "Ore ore scams" are made from prison. They call saying that kidnaped a relative of you and ask for money... since you are in the phone is hard to call the person to know the true. Old people are targets in this case.
I Know a guy who got hit with the "loan" scam... they will send credentials and have you sign a contract... on the contract the scammer poses as a CPA (Certified Financial Advisor) ... they have a office.... when you call you will be put on hold and sometimes the CPA is busy in a meeting! I can't make this up
The first scam is somewhat same with the text scam here in the 🇵🇭 wherein people would suddenly text you and pretended that someone from your family who changed their number, usually a new roaming number and stuff.
After watching this video, I felt an overwhelming need to help these scam victims. Once I get the money promised by my royal Nigerian acquaintance, I will earn good karma by sharing my earnings with them.
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WHAT 3 Hours ago?
hi
Do they scam on Japanese dating sites?
Day of a life of a JAV actress. (Not joking)
I can't help myself smiling back at Paolo when he so cheerfully tells me about scams. 😁
True 😅
Me too😂
I know he's "known for" being very happy and smiling in front of the camera but sometimes it just becomes a bit odd when it's about subjects like scams lol
LMAO this nigga smiling cus he got scammed too
@@cozyboy2098 weeb
I live in Japan and about 5 months ago, an old lady ( 60 - 70 ish years old) knocked on my door saying she was facing a hard time during corona and was selling produce she grew at her backyard to pay the bills. She was charging ¥500 ( a little less than 5 dollars ) for a cabbage, which is very expensive for a cabbage. My husband wanted to help so he bought the cabbage and when she handed him, it was the smallest cabbage I've ever seen. A while later I've talked to a neighbor about it and she said that the old lady did that even before the pandemic and she lived in a fancy house driving a new fancy car, she didn't need money at all as she was supported by her children. I was shocked!
She really screwed you over LOL But how xan she do that in the neighbourhood? There are these local police posts and the policemen there Knie exactly what is going on and who does what in their ward. So they should have stopped her already long ago?
That's not a scam but just some old, rich misers preying on good people's sympathy. I live in Bangkok, Thailand, where we can find a similar case of beggars who are actually rich, old folks with a lot of free time. So they decide to use their time wisely while the rest of their extended family members are at work or school, by leaving their houses everyday, putting on their shabbiest clothes and earning some easy money on the street. A lot of times people got confused seeing these poor ragged looking grandpas/grandmas getting in expensive cars and driving away 🤣
Maybe she's just bored
I thought Japanese ppl were nice and polite and would never do such a thing.
Keeping the spirit of sneaky entrepreneurship alive huh~ at the tiny very least it's not thousands of moolah~
We need "A day in the life of a traditional Japanese Scammer" 😀
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It will be like " Using that Scam tecnique he Scam 50 people at the same time , how cool is that" "After the meeting with his superior, His next task is looking for new victims ,Good luck friend"
Hahahaha
The "grandchild calling" scam happens here in the U.S. My mother is 92 and she gets calls like that sometimes. She'll play along with them for awhile before calling them an idiot and hanging up on them.
Based grandma
Chad grandma
It also happens in Germany. It’s a pretty common scam
yeah, happens in a lot of countries (Poland included, where i live). Its really despicable one.
Hope all grandparents are anti scammer
Its Paolo still smiling while saying "these are the scams in Japan to watch out for" for me HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Yeah.
YEA AHAH
yeah very funny
The japanese government and the Yakuza put the same pressure on him like China on John Cena 💀
I remember first hearing about the "It's me" scam when an article reported an old woman getting a call from someone claiming to be her granddaughter, so she asked the caller to verify her identity by naming all the (current) Pretty Cure - as it was her granddaughter's favorite show. The scammer hung up.
Having heard your last scam towards foreigners, I believe my daughter and I were targets of one last year on our trip to Shikoku. We were recomend by our lodging host to eat at his friends restaurant. We went in and were sat down up by the kitchen. We were never given a menu to order from. Then food was served, that we didn't order. We didn't know what to do, and thought perhaps our lodging host ordered something for us. Then we got the bill! It was $60 (Usd)for the 2 of us! A piece of fish and some vegetables. That was 2 days of our budget, gone! We told our host what happened. He acted like he didn't understand. Be careful out there!
This sounds like a scam. But it is normal to get something you didn't order. Many bars have kind of an "entrace fee" forget the name oft it. Were you get some tiny portion for around 400-500 Yen.
wait what? 60 usd is a 2 days budget?
@@gloriouscock2793 I guess 60 $ was the meals budget for 2 days, not the complete budget for 2 days. Yoshinoya, serves tasty things for around 5 $. You can get enough food for one meal in a convenience store for 5 $. So I Guess you can calculate with 3 meals a 5 $ per person per day. You will miss out on some experiences because in my opinion the food is an important part of Japan. But Japan is expensive, if you don't have the money you have to cut down on something.
It's always best to find your own places to eat and drink. Don't take recommendations unless it's from someone you know personally. A lot of touts on the streets are scammers. Like those bars that say "All you can drink for 30 minutes for 3,000 yen". Those are scams.
Sounds like you didn't like the food LOL that sounds perfectly innocuous and 30 dollars a day budget? In Japan? Crazy
This happened a couple times while I was in Japan. I’m not sure if it’s a scam or upselling to foreigners. When going to sit-down restaurants, the waiters would give us a menu, but when you choose an item, the waiter would say that’s not available and offer another item at a different (higher) price. It’s happened a couple times so I’m fairly suspicious.
Im a frequent traveller and I’ve seen this in a few places-they put a super-cheap special on a sign or sandwich board out front, to draw people in…and they say they ‘are out’ and since you’re already seated etc. you have to order a more expensive meal.
@@glengamble526 nah id probably walk out. Your aren't obligated to spend your own money??? What kinda nonsense is that?!
Otaku lvl 9001 throwing internet kunai for following jutsu. Because I thought the same!
I’d just walk out lol
food scam lol
In the states we have an IRS tax scam. This typically happens around tax time, and you will get this call, with the person (or automated voice) claiming that there is an issue with your tax payment with the IRS, and that you have to call them at this particular number to resolve the issue. This is a major scam, as the IRS DOES NOT call people. They send out letters in the mail.
And anyway, if you get surprise mail/phone, look up the number. Any tax authority etc. will have a number on their website, and it's only the last few digits that change. If the number is wrong, you can drop them an E-Mail with the details.
Either is was - surprise - a genuine call or they will give it to the police.
Having fallen for the bar scam myself when we were walking around Harajuku, these people prey on tourists. Sometimes they’ll just be standing there handing out flyers. Lesson learned the hardway. Thank you for putting this video up so that other people dont fall for it
How do you know you have been given an expensive bar menu? I live in an expensive city and local inflation has more than doubled the price of food and drinks. Will I even notice I have received an overpriced menu?
Proud to say I didn’t fall for that shit my first time in Japan. Immediately seemed super sus to me that anyone would have to ask or even try and bully customers to come into their bar, I guess it was a good instinct I had.
@@jwisit Harajuku is infamous for the tourist trap bars. Its definitely a scam
Thank you for covering a variety of topics!
Glad you like them!
@@PaolofromTOKYO Yes, glad you are beginning to cover the good the bad and the ugly. A better reflection of jp society.
Thanks for the tips
I was traveling in Japan with a friend in 2019 and a Japanese guy approached us saying he was trying to get people to come support his new bar that opened and they have specials for the night, as it was opening night. he was so friendly and convincing that we wanted to go and support him. We wanted to just eat something first. He took us and showed us where his place was and gave us a flier saying he will look out for us when we get there. We ate and it got late, and didn't feel like going anymore. I felt so bad that I wanted to go back the next day and make up for it, but never got around to it... Now I think I dodged a bullet... maybe it was a scam?
Actually sounds pretty legitimate to me. You would have been able to tell the moment you entered whether it was new or not, and if it wasn't you could have easily left. I've lived here for a long time and never heard of such a scam. Sounds like you just left a bro hanging on opening night 🥲.
aww now I feel bad for the bro even more!
@@AusJapan
I think Ore Ore scam exists in many countries, including where i live right now. It is easy to do and perpetrator's identity is safe while doing the scam. Just by saying, "hey it is me" or "how dare you forgetting your old friend/relative/family" and let the victims try their hard to remember and after they say the name, scammers can say "yes it is [name that they said earlier]".
Reminds me a bit of the "Nigerian Prince" scam
True, we had one in our area where the person was claiming that they were in jail or was being held hostage.
Yes, I think so too. Here we call it "grandchild scam" because usually old people are targeted and people on the phone pretend to be a grandchild in trouble. Unfortunately scamming old people seems to be pretty universal 😢
@@GizmoAndKiwi If someone is desperate or nasty enough to scam someone, they are desperate or nasty enough to scam elders.
There's a whole Japanese Netflix series on that called "Scams" i just finished watching it yesterday
Someday I will go to Japan. This channel motivate me to study hard and make me find a way to achieve my dreams. I really want to go to Japan, the food, places, people are so beautiful.
Right there with ya. Not just my dream of being published in Shonen Jump, but the feeling of home I get when I study the daily life and culture
Only a few more years until it can happen!
You got it right! The food is delicious! The people are polite and helpful. The places are awesome and clean. The train and bus are on time! Vending machines on every block. 😂
You probably think the scams are beautiful too? Remember, many japanese don't like foreigners in their country. They are just being polite on the surface, but you already know this.
@@silveriver9 why would we find the scams beautiful lmaoooo I've done plenty of research and I'm sure they did too. I know full well that it'll be tough as a foreigner, but it's a challenge I'm willing to take :b
@@silveriver9 Yep, right. Nobita's Dating video about Tatemae and Honne should be mandatory for foreigners who want to visit Japan for more than a weekend 😉.
wherever we go, we need to be careful for our safety. thanks for the information paolo
the scams there are almost similar here in the Philippines. thank you for this video! this is very informative
Love your stuff, man! I’ve learned a lot about Japan and the culture thanks to your videos and I hope to visit the country myself one day! Keep up the good work!
check out Rambalac, Abroad in Japan, and Tokyo Lens
Always different in reality than what u see in vids.
@@Sanctifires good choices 👍 - I would like to add a few more...
Asagi's life, Ms Eats, Let's ask Shogo, Nobita's channel and Dark side of Japan Yuki. 😊
Edit: oh, I forgot to mention SHUNchan.
YES, I have too!! Such great videos
That really makes me sad that people can be tricked into believing a voice they don't recognize is a close relative, it's so common for people to be too busy or tired for family.
In Singapore, one that comes to mind immediately is the call from the Police station tell you need to pay for some offence or something else...
WOW, that is so intense!!
I love how he sounds positive talking about scams.
He wouldn't be positive if he was a victim of them, neither would anyone else. Nothing to love about.
of course man this is the attitude of his channel do you think he is super positive after the camera shuts down?
@@Sonasic have you met him? How would you know? 🤔
@@DeepestFour through his videos.I have been a subscriber for a long time here and i agree he is positive till a degree.But in the videos he always takes the positiveness to a higher level.
@@Sonasic so?
Love your videos! Keep up the great content
Thanks so much!
@@PaolofromTOKYO Thanks so much!
I spent 3 weeks in Japan with a friend and the last scam happened to us twice, once it Tokyo and once in Osaka. It wasn’t a humongous bill for European standards but we could tell that we’d been had after comparing the bill to other restaurants/bars. Especially since we only had some omelette and two glasses of Sake at one place.
I think I I speak for everyone in the US with this scam: Your car's extended warranty
On one trip to Tokyo I stayed in Kabukicho and got hit up for the bar scam a lot. Thanks to videos like yours I already knew it was nothing but trouble and avoided being taken.
Yes, there are a lot of shady stuff going on in that area.
We got scammed by a fake buddhist monk dude outside of a temple near Harajuku, said he was taking donations for the temple. Gave him 5000 yen. Then we walked like 20 ft down the road and saw a sign posted on a wall that had a drawing of the buddhist guy saying "DO NOT GIVE THIS MAN MONEY, HE IS A CHINESE SCAMMER!!!!!! THIS TEMPLE DOES NOT ASK FOR DONATIONS!"
That sucks :D
But you have to admit, the guy has guts!
One easy way is to remember it is not allowed for buddhist monk to beg or ask for donations(part of their beliefs) , so if one does it to you he is a fake
I think my brother and I fell for the last scam. We went to an izakaya with some friends and while I was trying to keep tabs on what we ordered the bill still came out to be extremely high. Nearly $160 at an izakaya, where we ordered 8 things and 4 drinks overall. Didn't understand what the bill said and there was a language barrier so who knows.
The "love scam" is definitely quite similar here in the Philippines. It's usually carried out by West African migrants with connections to a bigger organization outside the country. Their targets are mainly single or widowed women in their 40s to late 60s. They gain their trust with promises of love and fortune.
In Brazil this kind of scams are so common, usually the calls are made from inside "bars".
Almost 90% of the scam calls are fake abductions.
That's true
It tells you a lot about a country, where abduction is a top believable reason for wanting money.
In Australia, especially tax season, we get a lot of fake calls from the “government” telling us we’re being fined or audited and then they’ll ask us to call a specific number straight away.
“Plays on the heartstrings on the lonely and compassionate 😁😃”
My guy just can’t stop smiling haha 😂
I think the biggest scam in the US is the "Hi, we've been trying to contact you about your extended warranty..." that is constantly over the phone.
Right. I get that one a lot... I don't have a car for the extended warranty to about to be expired.🤣🤣🤣
My estranged grandparents got a call a few months ago telling them that I was in jail in Dallas Texas and needed a $10,000 bill. Thankfully they reached out to some people to find out that I was not even in the city.
Only Paolo can say, "these are scams in Japan to watch out for" while wearing a beaming smile.😅
here in Argentina we have a lot of that call were a relative is in trouble supposedly and asks you for money, there was a recent case where an old lady gave all her savings to a man because he told her that her daughter was kidnapped, but the girl had been safe at her work all the time, and no harm was made...
wow that is an intense story!! thanks for sharing
Paolo, your channel has literally gotten me through a depressive year of unemployment. Things are better now but still. Thanks my dude 🤙
Yes, his videos are so inspiring and powerful!! I am happy to hear GabeStation that life has gotten so much better for you!!
I've noticed that a few of the scams in Japan, especially Targetting tourists, are done by non-Japanese. I'm thinking about Shibuya night Club gangsters, and Charity scammers at Train stations, etc.
Scams (or other small crimes) are generelly done by those who are poor and have no realitic hope of ending that. In most countries being foreign is 50% of the qualification for that situation.
Of course it helps if you have no family etc. in the same town that you can shame with your behavior.
I think I saw one of them at Shibuya station once, but didn't give him any money
Wouldn't the whole renting culture be a scam? That gift to the landlord, and all the other high payments before you've even moved in.
Not a scam, just legal fraud. Like paying 3000€ for a few 10 year old cheap IKEA furniture that you don't even want when you take over the apartment. Don't want to pay that? No problem, the next one will!
The last scam does remind me of some side quests in Yakuza games. Well, you play as the yakuza Kiryu (he goes back and forth about being a yakuza and quitting altogether) and, well, you beat the scammer, usually. 😅
See ya~! 😎
Every Yakuza games have side quest where Kiryu beat scammers. One of the most hilarious for me was the cult religious scammers in Yakuza 6 / Kiwami 2 (cmiiw).
Imagine if it’s real kiryu I wander what would happen to them
It was actually in the first chapter of the new Lost Judgement game 😂
lol I must be the perfect scammer target because just reading this made me want to go out and buy the games
You all play too many games and have false perceptions of jp as a result. Imagine ppl thinking the US is like what they see in hollywood movies 🤦♂️
It’s a dream of mine to visit Japan. It would be helpful if you did a video on tourist traps to avoid in Japan or just things in general to avoid.
I hate scammers. they need to be all arrested.
In Boston there were fake monks asking for donations by selling beads.
Same thing in NYC! They once scamming me lol. The person was saying it was for some school or something.
Same thing in Jakarta
Hey TS, It's Tony stark here. You won $1million by watching this video 😂👌
Here in Philippines they let you wear the beads and say things like "it's good luck for health and money" then "the beads are for the person wearing it only, and it can't be passed to others" and then they will ask for payment since you are already wearing it🤣🤣
We had them in Sydney, they approached an undercover cop and they got arrested in the spot, they no longer appear on the streets
Here in Mexico, it is very common to receive phone calls from " one relative of yours being detained at the border when he/she was returning from the States" and were detained because they were bringing gifts to his family and they say that they're short of money and they ask you for a certain amount of it. many people were scammed, but not anymore
I find it so odd that people fall for bar scams. Just call the cops and when they say they can't do anything because its a business dispute, just refuse to pay and demand the scammer to sue you and walk out. They are not going to do anything to you because that will defeat the purpose. Its a scam, not a robbery.
We have the first scam here in Austria too, we call it "Enkeltrick" or "grandchild trick".
The last scam does remind me of some side quests in Yakuza games. Well, you play as the yakuza Kiryu (he goes back and forth about being a yakuza and quitting altogether) and, well, you beat the scammer, usually. 😅
See ya~! 😎
Paolo posts, we watch and like!
I been waiting all day for Paolo to upload a video.
you might like Rambalac, Abroad in Japan, and Tokyo Lens too
@@Sanctifires already sub to them
@@Sanctifires Tokyo Lens is a total douchebag !
Someone tried to do that Ore Ore same to my grandfather, told him I was in jail. My grandfather realized it wasn't me about halfway through.
My personal experienced once in Akihabara. There is one lady giving pamphlet on the sidewalk. I thought it’s just for advertise so I took it. Then that lady asked me to the gallery-lookalike shop (which is located at that spot because she stands in front of the shop). Then she told me to buy one of the shop’s stuffs. The cheapest one is the casual postcard for ¥1000. So I walked out asap but that was quite scary for me and I’ve never taken any giveaway stuffs ever since.
wow..... you probably shouldnt travel if thats scary.
@@mycosys The shop is located on the main street of the Akihabara so quite surprise that they did something like this.
I think I’ve seen the lady and shop you are talking about and it’s not a scam. Yes, she is handing out flyers and if you take one she asks you to come in, which you can say no. And yes the merchandise is overpriced, but at no point are you forced to buy anything .
@@Marty_Mouse I see. But what I faced is she kept asking me to buy one and tried to stop me from leaving…..
Scammers are everywhere around the world! So everyone needs to be careful! In America, the romance scam is a popular scam too. It is a good thing you made this video because people need to be aware of these scams.
Yes in Australia we have most elderly are scammed here too sadly sick desperate people!!!!
Good info Paolo!!!! 👍🏻
We're calling about your car's extended warranty
@@craigman7262 😁
Ah yes... Good ol ACA catching out the dodgy tradies for charging an arm and a leg to the poor old pensioners
astroboy: Tighten up your English mate.
@@adambane1719 thanks miss!
man i need to watch more your japan videos! move to japan at the end of this month for rugby but im nervous for me and my family but watching these videos will give me hopefully more help haha.
I find it quite sad that people dont stay close to their elderly relatives as they get older, they should be doing the exact opposite if you ask me!
And protecting them against scams such as the first
Elderly people are still people… And some people are shit people. Not everyone were blessed with loving relatives. Not many flips the question and ask why their parents/elderly don’t initiate contact on their own behalf. Relationships go both ways with both parts needed. Of course we should protect our elderly people especially those that are vunerable, but it’s very easy to forget to also treat them as humans that has lived their entire life capable of making their own decision up until the point they became vunerable, and unfortunately many made bad decisions without trying to redeem them and not even considering flipping that question but continue to victimize themselves so they don’t have to take any responsibility.
@@daveUK1066 Disrespect? It's just apathy. I'm in the group of people Moi described. I have lots of elderly friends, and I recently realized that so many elderly likes me *because* I love listening to them and to their stories. My own parents and siblings, however, our interaction is toxic because of our parents.
That said, most Japanese people tend to have this concept of generational barrier when making friends? I generally make friends with people of all ages and one day one of my older Japanese friends told me that this is actually strange as, according to her, most people make friends with people their own age as they would have more things in common with each other. I later noticed that it also exist outside Japan and I wonder if that's a contributing factor to the disconnect.
I never thought of it as protecting the elderly, but before COVID I ran annual practical workshops for the local community (especially the elderly) on how to protect their privacy and security online mainly because it's an area of interest and a local librarian gave me the idea to run the workshop at the library. There are many things we can do to help and the help don't have to come from relatives. Such as making them aware of such scams so if they get that call from 'relatives' in the future, we can teach them to ask the caller for proof that they are who they say they are.
@@julesverneinoz Hmmm, it's more that in Japanese culture it's hard to be friends with someone much older because you are supposed to have respect bordering on worship for them. It's probably going away a bit, as younger generations barely have time to have friends their own age any more, and are increasingly realising that the older generations don't deserve their respect (even if they might not say it out loud... that would be rude, after all)
dude, the last one almost happened to me in Poland. We were eating at a bar and this guy with two girls sat next to us, started talking to us, buying drinks and then offered to show us around. We accepted, he seemed like a nice guy. He had to leave for a quick phone call and one of the girls he was with told my friend that it was a scam. I dont know why she told us but we left immediately while the guy was busy.
04. I’ve got a story. A Japanese friend of mine fell for this one, 2 years ago. EXACTLY as you said, Paolo. Foreign military guy (claimed to be American, stationed in Afghanistan). She wasn’t actually interested in love, she claimed, although that’s the angle he initially tried. She just made a human connection with him… so when he told her he would be killed if he didn’t come up with money to bribe his way out of the country, she wired it to him. I don’t remember exactly, but I think the total was close to 100,000 US$. BUT…
Ironically, our mutual friend that attempted to come to her rescue and helped her deal with the emotional aftermath of it all ended up falling in love with her… and they are in fact married now. So it lead to love after all.
**Casually ignoring "Agnez"** Awww that's such a lovely happy ending 😍
@@Fan.Of.FanFiction I know, right? It’s funny how life works out sometimes.
Thank you for a new video. The most scams are worldwide unfortunately and they have no mercy. Keep up the good work Paulo!
How do I start this weekend:
- Watching movie 🙅
- Watching Paolo from Tokyo 🙆
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Thanks for the video. 👍
The ore ore scam is done here in UK with people saying "I need it for bail or something"
With covid going around your channel is the only way for me to get a taste of Japan.
26 variants and rising.
One of the things to keep in mind when travelling is to never trust touts, "friendly people", pretty girls/handsome guys offering to show you around, tour guides, people handing out flyers/handouts, etc. You'll just end up overpaying for food, drink, souvenirs, or some other item. Just go to a well known fast food chain or a resto away from tourist trap areas to be on the safe side.
So much for Japan being perfectly safe lmao
Safeness is always relative. And anyway, scams are things where YOU are the unsafe part.
Scams exist everywhere where gullible people /tourists are. its still a lot safer than a lot of other countries.
Paolo giving the sweet smile whilst explaining how all these scams work. Cute! HAHAHA
😂
I hope you and your family stay healthy and safe. We get the same scams in USA. Got a new one two days ago. Scammer says I have 18 bank accounts and have funneled millions to drug cartels in South America. I have 4 warrants out for my arrest. It's crazy, they keep coming up with more and more scams trying to get your information. Imagine what they could do if they applied that effort and creativity constructively for something positive.
Thank you for sharing this info! As a human you need to be careful all the time ❤️👊🏻
Yeah, like the animals have it easy....!
I think that the "ore ore" scam is global, unfortunately.
They actually talk about the "it's me" scam on The Simpsons.
#1 I'd argue its a good reason to never give money to anyone, regardless of family closeness. Family ties I'd argue is a huge scam (my opinion).
In the US that scam is often run requesting bail money for a grandchild or child who got into trouble.
The bigger scammer the US prison system though. (And the US maybe the only country where this scam works.)
If it's more likely for a black boy to go to prison than to university, something is deeply wrong with that country.
you cheese out super smiley even when talking about scams! that's a very positive attitude my friend lol
I work at a call center for a city hall in Tokyo. And we receive many phone calls from elderly people regarding 5:03 Tax Refund Scam😞.
They receive suspicious call, so they call us to check if it's scam or real. I feel so bad to elderlies are targeted. I hope it won't happen anymore..
Sounds a lot like "This is [insert name here] from the IRS. You owe us $x dollars and if you don't give it to us , we will take legal action against you. Call us now to fix this!"
The IRS only contacts people by mail IIRC.
@@williamrichmond814 Right. It's similar. City
hall also only contacts by sending letter. It's a unversal problem..😣
The "Ore ore" scam is also popular in Germany and is known as the "Enkeltrick" (literally "grandson trick") there.
In the Netherlands they use mostly the same scams. Some are 100% the same, such as the foreign soldier scam.
@@petersmith4771 What baloney. People fall for the most basic scams... And they target both young and old vulnerable people such as teens in care homes and elderly women living alone. Scams can be as simple as love scams, for which some teenage girls but also lonely women in their 30s+ fall for within hours or days. There are fake charity collectors, beggars that fake disability, people that come to your house because they 'just need your phone for an emergency', alternative 'healers', etc. etc. To think the scams in the Netherlands are worse per se because Dutch people aren't gullible is the most idiotic thing I ever heard.
@@petersmith4771 My comments don't get deleted. I thought so too at first, but when I refreshed they were there again... I see all the automated scammer comments, but I don't pay attention to them. To me it is like advertisement. I just try to not see it, which works most of the time. I guess the comments section is messed up because of all the spambot activity... The RUclips video viewer count and comments have to be synced between many local servers around the world. So don't worry. Nothing 'wrong' here. And I am no bot, thank you ;)
These are the same or similar scams happening all over the world! Thanks for the info!!
omg this just made me remembered me and my husband got scammed in Kyoto the 1st time, there was a small arcade and someone gave me this ticket for a "FREE" go .... I showed the guy the machine I wanted to play, so he took the ticket and showed me how "easy" it was to win, when he said r u ready? he asked me to pay TT TT I was like ok, it was more expensive than usual and obviously I lost after 1 try he then tried to be friendly and ask us to play more but then I realised and just ran out @__@... I guess it wasn't such a big scam but still could of got more gatcha with what I spend there TT TT ... also I live in England and yh most of these scams sound pretty similar.
Nice info as always! I'd like to second the idea of tourist scams mentioned by at least one other here. For example, I have heard that fake monks hang out in the Asakusa area selling fake charms or outright asking for donations!
In other areas, in NYC there are many dressed up as the Statue of Liberty, Spiderman, etc. They are very friendly and offer to pose for a picture. In Korea, near some tourist attractions, I've been accosted by people offering to be your guide. In both, the "scam" was fairly obvious and avoided both. Not so much a scam, but in Europe on 2 occasions, someone tried to open my pack when it was on my back. Again, obvious but one tends to get a bit lax living in Japan. I'll be glad when we can all travel again though!
All these scams are familiar in the US and Canada - with the exception of the bar scam; bar culture in the US and Japan are different.
man you make quarantine so much better!
you might like Rambalac, Abroad in Japan, and Tokyo Lens too
Scams are everywhere my friends! Even in the nice country of Greece!
These scams, I'm sure Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku players are pretty familiar with some. The ore ore one mostly
Beat them using Komakiryu Tora Otoshi 💥💥💥 lol.
I like how when you're walking past someone at a phone box you sometimes hear them saying "Ore da yo!"
@@キラキラくりくり頭 really? Didn't know that. Which games?
@@JoCaTen I definitely heard it a few times in Yakuza 0.
@@キラキラくりくり頭 ah, I see. I'll keep an ear out then
Something similar to the "ore ore scam" happened to my mom, she got a call from someone pretending to be me, the caller said that he had been arrested in Mexico for some type of crime, and that he needed $10,000 to get bailed out of jail and pay fines...she told him to hold on, funny thing is that I was sitting across the table from her, and she asked me joking "what crime did I do in Mexico?" handed me the phone and I asked the guy who he was, he gave my name I said "Really? because that's me" dude hung up quickly.
I visited Japan once in the 90's and almost fell for a scam. This lady I went on two dates with told me she loved me, she couldn't live without me, that I should move in with her, marry her, that I could even quit my job and just be a house husband and she'd provide for me.
Luckily I knew better than to fall for it.
Did she demand any money from you, if not it might be a real one
It's hilarious how happy he looks while talking about scams and victims
hey Paolo, please make an episode of day in the life of a traditional japanese sweets shop owner/employee
Someone actually tried the romance scam on me. Luckily, I'm not gullible because that person was pretty smooth in their wording.
Tourists should be also careful when a girl approaches them in a club, my friend got his drink spiked by a local girl when he was in a club in Tokyo and when he woke up in the morning, he was in a room with the girl and some other guys and they didn’t let him leave until he paid them money 😅😅😅
hectic. imagine that.
Great video Paulo!
100%
Can you please do a day in the life of a Japanese police officer since you've been doing stuff on Japanese laws and scams please
Never gonna happen I'm afraid.
A day in the life of Japanese cops - sitting around on their lazy asses doing fuck all.
all of these are pretty standard in canada as well. we also have the online shopping scam, where someone try to buy whatever you're selling online but send you a fake email saying money is transfered to your paypal account; and ask you to ship the item. basically if they never try to haggle your prices, it's probably too good to be true.
This seems like nothing, like literally nothing compared to what happens in India. And I am an Indian. The amount of times I get cheated at the very same place I was born and raised makes me question my whole existence 😂😘😘
I forgot which channel I watched. And they was giving a story about a businessman constantly sending him like sushi dishes or something. And I guess the waiter was saying like "It's from that man over there". And in the end the traveler got hit with the bill. And really it turned out that the businessman was basically pranking the traveler into eating really weird stuff and seeing how far he could go with it. I've also heard the horror stories of travelers going to a bar and then waking up in the bar and finding their money all gone.
Now the last horror story is something I hear happens everywhere, and not only to travellers.
Hey Paolo, I know this idea may sound weird, but I think that a day in the life of a Japanese guitar maker would be a really cool video. Japanese guitars are well known to be some of the best made so it would make sense to see a day in their life.
As a guitar lover, I highly endorse this.
There's a video on the channel of 'Tokyo Lens' where he got his own custom made Shamisen and films the maker.
Edit: I know, it's not a guitar maker. But at least it's as close as one can get for traditional Japanese crafts and musical instrument makers. 😉
Thanx for the vid. Learning a lot about the high's and low's of Tokyo. Cheers.
Interesting video! I think it would also be interesting to know how the scammers are being treated by the authorities if they get caught. Are there strict punishments about this kind of scams, or they are considered a minor issue?
Here in Brazil, "Ore ore scams" are made from prison. They call saying that kidnaped a relative of you and ask for money... since you are in the phone is hard to call the person to know the true. Old people are targets in this case.
i see paolo i click!
I Know a guy who got hit with the "loan" scam... they will send credentials and have you sign a contract... on the contract the scammer poses as a CPA (Certified Financial Advisor) ... they have a office.... when you call you will be put on hold and sometimes the CPA is busy in a meeting! I can't make this up
Greetings from Spain 🇪🇸
The first scam is somewhat same with the text scam here in the 🇵🇭 wherein people would suddenly text you and pretended that someone from your family who changed their number, usually a new roaming number and stuff.
I've traveled a bit, I can safely say the Japanese are the most honest people in the whole world, also Malays. Just my experience.
really great country Arnold
Anyone ripping the elderly off is pure scum. Hope they caught those jerks. 😡
After watching this video, I felt an overwhelming need to help these scam victims. Once I get the money promised by my royal Nigerian acquaintance, I will earn good karma by sharing my earnings with them.
I'm always falling for the "She said she wa 18 scam"...giggity! :P