Sugar Baby BUSTED For Defrauding Men Out Of MILLIONS
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2024
- Mai Watanabe was sentenced to 9 years in prison for defrauding men out of more that $1 million. John Iadarola and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Your Support is Crucial to the Show: tyt.com/team
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"A 25-year-old "sugar baby" was handed a nine-year prison sentence for defrauding men she met on dating apps out of more than $1 million, and selling a manual on how to carry out similar scams.
Mai Watanabe, also known as "itadaki joshi Riri-chan," which translates as "sugar baby Riri," was sentenced by the Nagoya District Court on Monday, The Japan Times reported."
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She’d be a sugar baby not a sugar momma .
She was with the hosts.
Shes a bit of both
55 million yen is about 350,000 USD.
ah yeah? What is 3 cents then!?
In an interesting twist in this story: Two of the men are married and the judge has a fake degree.
Horny men and their money I love it
Nothing new
I have many friends that got married to gold diggers
One has lost 2million in the last year to an illegal Brazilian
What a fool
Rupert Murdock loses alot to gold diggers too. Everyone has weaknesses 😂
Just an FIY, Host clubs aren't strip clubs, very different
lead older men on for money is literally the definition of a sugar baby
except it's not illegal.
@@vibecat4899 nope its one reason feminists annoy me. prostitution( honest women ) is illegal and they whine about boobs in video games but never go after sugar babies and gold diggers( the real criminals )
I lived in Japan. Host and hostess clubs are not strip clubs. They do have strip clubs but they are not called host clubs.
If there is proof in the emails or messages that she invented false reasons for needing the money to convince them to give her the money then it's just like people who pretend they're operating a charity while pocketing all the money. It's called fraud and it's criminal. If she just asked for the money without lying and they gave it to her, then it shouldn't be a crime.
This is why I never trust dating apps!
That is an indescribable level of obsession.
Sugar baby vs sugar "mama", what absurd lack of accuracy in telling these stories
i know right? this one is riddled with holes, both in the story _and_ in the comments lol
This takes the concepts of friendzones to a whole new level. 😂
if the men gave the money voluntarily, this IS NOT a crime
Japanese host clubs are not strip clubs. The hosts generally just sit with the women and drink with them.
Thank you! I came to say it but you beat me to it
Money talks
Too bad we in this country can’t have these Conwomen prosecuted.
I was married for a few months and when she ran off with a boyfriend the came back only to clean me out. I was looking at retirement and suddenly I was homeless and had most of my retirement savings wiped out.
what was the age difference between you two?
About 3 months.
@@tonysamard8179 - "[you were] looking at retirement" - she was also retirement age?
We were both only 32 years old but my hobby of trading common stock had put me in a position where I could afford to retire early.
@@tonysamard8179 - it sounds to me like you didn't have enough Life Experience or relationship experience to make a measured decision to get married. this is only my opinion.
if you end up making another big pile of money i would suggest spending some of it on a professional matchmaker to help you select your next long-term relationship. again, only my opinion.
host clubs are not strip clubs. As usual Anna is proving how clueless is becoming.
Geisha girl so nicee
She serve me tea and ricee
Life can be so spicy
Down in in To-Kee-oh!
@@PhilipDeLamarter exactly they're basically more personal waitresses.
Believe it or not, her going to these clubs to get attention from men are a bit common over there.
Host clubs are NOT strip clubs. Some fine reporting you got there kasparian.
She threw that out of the window many moons ago, brother
The Fast & The Spurious: Tokyo Grift
I don't see the difference between the guy who was lying to her for money.
Those guys are stupid, but that doesn't sound like fraud to me.
She lied about what the money was for, and led them on. It was fraud.
@@Bloodstar6078 So if she was actually in debt, she'd be a free woman?
Typical Japanese hosts is a hired drinking buddy with the intent of getting the customer to buy very expensive drinks. Similar hired fake friend also happens too. It's more of an esteem issue for the customer by having a fake friend.
She took advantage but the bulk of the blame goes onto those pathetic men, a fool and his money soon parted.
Host clubs are not strip clubs.
Potato patata
More insidious.. It' like a girlfriend experience hooker.
Ana, your ear buds look like warts growing out of your ear. 😂. With love
Who wants to canoodle when you can eat noodles. Only noodles do.
Well he loves her, but she loves him, and he loves somebody else, you just can win. And so it goes, until you die, this thing called love is gonna make you cry. Love Stinks! J. Gyles.
Lol. I totally read this in Adam Sandler's voice from The Wedding Singer.
If the guys who paid don't mind and if they love her still...and that they gave that money freely of their own free will...then I say let her go.
False pretense does not matter...If you give money to someone you love...It is not a loan...you don't expect anything back if based on love..
The point is that they gave it freely with no strings attached...
If you give away money you should never expect anything in return or ask questions, once you decided to give that money.
Eyes wide open...you are older she is not, you should know it could possibly be for something other than originally intended.That is just a fact of life if you found this person in such an establishment.
So, it is on gift giver to accept that responsibility .
What you do is out of love...or is it.
They gave her money under false pretenses, that’s fraud
@@michaelkilbride6420 you are wrong
@@michaelkilbride6420 There is no false pretense....He went to that establishment and must know who he is dealing with.
@@user-ys5qy1to8b the money wasn’t for “services rendered” it was supposedly to help an ailing family member, which means it was fraud
Well, it appears the courts disagree
Host clubs are not strip clubs. It's more complicate than that. It is a place where women buy very overpriced drinks in order to get the attention of very attractive and charming men. The guys serve. They drink and so forth. Many Of the women who go there are sex workers themselves. The thing about being then to ghost is that it is hard to get into the position. It is based on how much money you make each night. But the name of the top host is posted where the customers can see them. And they think that if somebody is atop host, their rust be a good reason, so they will book that host too, and he will stay on top. This woman fell in love with one of the hosts and decided to do what she could to get enough money to get him to earn enough money to go to the top host slot, and once he got there, he would keep making more money. But she kept spending more money to make sure that he stayed on top.
These guys are taught to manipulate women. They do indeed play hard to get, and refuse to sleep with a woman on the first night that they meet her. She does start chasing him, and often become obsessed with him. They are also taught to be nothing but a good time guy at first, but then later, start scolding them for various things they have learned about their personal life, such as not paying enough attention to their parents, or whatever. This seems to pull them deeper in. These guys sleep with the women off the clock, and are generally paid for that. The whole thing is, indeed, pretty sad, and it can take a toll on the guys. For one thing, they have to drink a lot of alcohol. For another, they have to constantly deal with the motions and relationship drama of multiple neurotic women. Also, in the daytime, they have to go out on the streets and hustle women to get them to come to the club later.
There is, of course, a much larger number of hostess women. But this seems to me to be a less sleazy scene, because it is more straight forward. Guys work all day and then, instead of going home to their wives, they go out with they coworker guys to hostess bars. Their, pretty charming women chat with them, pay attention to them, pamper them and so forth. Some will not have sex with them (for money) later, some will not, some bars are more formal, others have women wearing less, or even less, and a more sexual vibe. But it seems to me that everybody in that situation knows what they are paying for and what they get for it. The host bars strike me as far more cynical and manipulative.
honestly she was defrauding them and he was defrauding her. But only she gets in trouble.
Like so many others have said, Host Clubs are not strip clubs but rather clubs where attractive guys spend time with women conversing and drinking like they’re on a date (same with hostess clubs, attractive young women act like they’re dating guy customers as they converse and drink). Unfortunately it’s not unusual to hear about female customers getting so enamored with a male host that they’ll go into debt, which forces them to anything to get money quick to not only pay back the debt but also even even go back to see that host again with more money.
And I think this is the point that both Ana and John miss, the emotional manipulation that’s done on the host side which in turn makes the “sugar baby” a victim/victimizer by defrauding a whole bunch of other victims in this messed up chain. This is actually not as uncommon, customers from both host/hostess clubs will pay vast amounts of money to the point where they’re in debt. Also host/hostess clubs have been around Japan for quite some time, so this is not a new thing. I would also think Ana out of all people would understand if someone was being emotionally manipulated instead of taking a hot take joke :-/
Wondering if there is more to this and the clubs she spent all that money at are involved in the scam with her
Host and hostess clubs are not strip clubs. They are clubs where you go a d pay for drinking and having conversations with hot men (host club) or hot women (hostess club). Some of the hosts/hostesses exploit the relationship between customer and host/hostess to milk them dry. This sounds like one of these instances. I'm not saying that what she did was right, but she might have been manipulated by her favorite host.
Edit:Good that you correct your misstake later in the video.👍
Sigh. Don't assign western culture to other parts of the world. "Host clubs" in Japan are NOT strip clubs like in the west. Women and Men go there to have private interactions with the "hosts" - but these are NOT sexual in nature, there is no nudity or sexual activity occurring. The most accurate way to describe is "paying to have a date". You pay for companionship that does not involve any sexual activity. It helps some people solve the problem of loneliness in Japan, which is rampant in their society, by allowing both men and women to pay for a few hours of time to just talk, have dinner etc with another person. This concept effectively is non-existent in North America or Europe, to my knowledge.
There are also strip clubs in Japan... but they are NOT "Host" clubs, they are strip clubs as you would expect here in the west. But the 2 are VERY different. The strip clubs, you go to watch nude / semi-nude women or men dance... Host clubs, you pay for a date, basically, but there's no nudity / stripping etc.
Ahhhh dude they have (azzzzz eating restaurants)😂😂😂 you kidding me. Japan are some freaks 😂😂😂
Does Ana do any basic journalistic work anymore? Lol I mean come on...
Nah, she rather scream like an eagle about things that don't happen or don't exist.
A host club is not a strip club you are vastly uninformed.
Makes me wonder if she identified as a sugar baby beforehand. If she did, and they gave her money knowing that was the relationship... Well tough luck bro, you agreed. And same goes for her spending money on hosts--- she gave that money to them, it's their money now. Those are monetary transactions and if your feelings make that muddied then don't do it.
Yea it was her name, so kinda just their mistake. She lied but I don’t think you could charge someone for that in America.
In other Countries it’s a crime to lie!! She lied and that was the crime
Smells right throw money!
This is the most Japanese thing I have ever heard.
Not a single one of them was a ninja or a schoolgirl or (had) a mech. There's a *lot* of Japanese left in that gauge.
More so than getting it on with a robot?
Thats not a crime here. Happens all the time.
Host clubs aren't stripclubs.
If you check her image on google, she presents herself as being very, very young. She doesn't look that old anyway but her public face is possibly schoolgirl type? Don't feel too sorry for the old guys who got scammed. they're not exactly paragons of virtue.
yeah, we're talking about these guys going after a girl 2 decades or more younger than them, right? but this isn't a problem in Japanese society, apparently ……
I thought this was basically the whole point of being a sugar baby.
Answer: hoste club guy is good looking.
Contrast this with Ana’s take on the tinder swindler… just saying
Host clubs are not strip clubs. Watch Tokyo Vice.
I've been to a female hostess club. I wasn't paying, but the reason people pay so much to go to these clubs is because they make you feel fantastic. They tell you you are beautiful, smart, they love your outfit, your Japanese is good, etc. Even though I knew it's there job to tell you how great you are, I still felt fantastic when I left the club. I think it might be better than going to a shrink, plus you get to drink premium alcohol.
You weren't paying? Right!
@@PhilipDeLamarter -My post says that I wasn't paying. I was a guest of the customer.
OK, I read this 3 times at just past 1 minute with the graphic about the court's ruling. She'd defrauded 3 men of 58.8 million Yen (about one million $) another for 117 million yen ($756,000.)? Somebody's math seriously sucks.
Sounds like the typical modern woman 😂
na theses are capitalist whores
Okay, the math here doesn't add up. This kind of thing drives me nuts. The graphic says that she swindled three men out of 55.8 million yen, which it says is $1 million dollars. Then it says she swindled one man out of 117 million yen, which it says is $756 thousand dollars. 55.8 million < 117 million, but $1 million > $756 thousand.
Maybe the three men she swindled out of 55.8 million yen weren't the only men, and there was another guy she swindled out of more. Maybe that one guy wasn't one of those three and was just an additional guy. That would be a weird way of phrasing it. But the basic figures don't compute. Somebody somewhere has made a mistake.
The source is in the description
@@13bullshit Yeah, I don't know if it was the source that made a mistake or TYT. I'm just saying the math doesn't add up here. Obvious math mistakes bother me.
Yep, it was clearly Ana's turn to do the math. And we can't blame her, too pretty.
I’ll say John is more insightful than Ana with his observation that “matters of the heart are complex.” I’m guessing that Ana would understand if she considered how much her husband is to her “the one” instead of an interchangeable commodity.
She does love her husband like that, she just tends to speak without thinking a lot. The fact that she thinks a host club is the same as a strip club is annoying. Like two seconds of research Anna! Anyways. There's a reason I prefer The Damage Report nowadays. Well not just because of Anna but she is one reason.
If anyone gives money to anyone with no expectation for a tangible product or repayment, that is called a warm con. It shouldn't be a crime to benefit from someone who is willing to benefit you!
Host clubs are NOT strip clubs. Anna, stop.
Where is this lady living under rock this is the real world it happens everyday on both sides…
Anna Delvy sipping champagne and sneering, “good for her, but still such an amateur little baby.”
Host clubs are basically strip clubs without the stripping. You go there and hot men/women just chill and talk with you for a bit while pretending to be into you.
If Trump can whine to his voters that he needs money & his idiot voters send it to him..Its the exact same thing. Shes fine to me.
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She scammed men... but then fell for a swindle herself if the host is not in love with her in return.
Exactly
9 sounds super long but i also have the US reference where financial crimes never get enough time
She'd be given a medal and many "YASS QUEEN"s in America....
Her male host was just a male sugar baby. Anna must live a sheltered life. I've seen it all my adult life. I don't are with it but it's not against the law. Nine years is a little harsh
There's a difference. In a Host Club you know what you're paying for. She just lied to some men and tricked them into giving her money, which is fraud by definition (maybe not legal definition, but unless you're Japanese lawyer you also can't say it's not).
Todays mainstream understanding of this type of behavior is that "the girl has a good hustle". XD
Sometimes it feels like you guys learn about a story as you're presenting it.
Presumably Japan's laws on what constitute fraud are different than they are in the United States and that is why the charges don't line up perfectly with what they could be here.
Can't people just stay single
Well, no. These older men seem to have a "knight in shining armor" complex, and think that their money can totally buy a young hottie. I live in the Philippines, and this happens every day. Sugar babies lead old men on, asking for larger and larger "loans" and "allowances", and promise eternal love, when they get here. I'm sure, several times a day, old men find themselves ghosted in the Manila airport, with no clue where they are, and with nowhere to go. Retired men, old enough to know better, totally bamboozled by an 18 year old girl. "Well, did she make you cry, make you break down, shatter your illusions of love? So tell me, is it over now? Do you know how, to pick up the pieces and go home?" Stevie Nicks, Gold Dust Woman EVERY. DAY. And they NEVER get caught. Because everything about them was fiction.
Host clubs are a big addiction out there.
🤮. I love how you have to hold back your laughter and glee over what this woman did to these men. If you was to reverse the sexes and this was a man who did this to women, I hardly doubt the story would have the same delivery. Overall I think the young Turks is a good resource but On occasion the blatant hypocrisy and privilege is on full display. This is one of those times.
Host clubs in Japan are not strip clubs. You are paying for the hosts to be your friends, and you really want to impress your friends with expensive drinks.
She keeps saying “WANTanabe”
There are documentaries about male host clubs in Japan. It's a whole underground industry.
Loudly the bells for the old bottom rings !
"Actual consequences for this woman"...a phrase that will get people's attention.
Isn't A.I girlfriends and artificial wombs going to make real women obsolete?
host clubs are NOT strip clibs
They are brothels so almost the same as strip clubs if you are willing to pay
In America there are “agencies” that provide “date escorts” which is the American equivalent of
@@diegoharo7943 Wrong.
@@Stijn5 no it’s actually common knowledge, these hosts are like American escorts both sleep with their clients
@@Stijn5 there are other companies that rent family members or gf/bf that don’t usually sleep with their client but host clubs are like escort agencies
7:16 they are trying to dance around what she did. If a guy did this to women. You would all go off on him. The guy who would take women out on a date and never call them again. . Women were angry at him. He paid for the date and never forced sex on them. Women wanted him arrested. There was a man who left women to pay the bill. Ana was mad the guy in one of tyt’s story’s .
Men are such victims in the modern world! 🤡❄️🤮
Those men were stupid for falling for it.
Oddly enough.. back in the 90's I knew a couple of young women who left Canada to work in Japanese hostess clubs for a few months. Both denied being involved in any direct sexual activity and both came back with enough cash to pay for a year of uni. Ana.. your childish laughter at this is unbecoming of an adult.. it's like you giggle and blush when you say the word "kiss".. grow up.
you can make the same kind of money crab fishing over the summer in Alaska, which seems like much more honest work than this host/hosting shit.
@@vibecat4899 To each their own.
Soo good needs to get out of the house.
Nice safe, John.
Online scams
Are you a victim if you WILLINGLY give your money to strangers on-line?
Pimping ain't eazy!
We as Americans have no place criticizing Japanese societal stances on criminality when its crime rate is ridiculously lower than ours
i guess it depends what kind of crime. it's not like they report all of the rape, or all of the groping/pinching of female minors on the public trains.
Because no minorties
I'm glad Ana added that caveat at the end. These are disgusting crimes, even if they were commited against men.
Who's got the balls ???
It's just horrible that people would use other people like that.Oh my god I can't even imagine .
She's the victim. Check out the loneliness problem in Japan. It's all about mental problems. Especially loneliness and its endemic problems.
I think we can agree there may be multiple victims here. Mental illness isn’t free pass either though. Societal problems, maybe. But this was one woman, not an fraud ring.
@@Bloodstar6078 Actually these are. Check out the video Japan's Standing Woman problem. The loneliness drives women and men into dating apps, then they get fished by hosts or hostesses (
not strippers, even if Ana says so). Then to help their so (it's a whole different thing there, being a boy- or girlfriend, culture) to get a better standing in their club.
Eventually they're drawn into debt and then pushed into prostitution to cover their debts, while they still keep accruing more debt.
Like always, it is a person who commits a crime, but there is a whole network behind them. Once this phenomena would be targeted like illegal drug trade they'd see these cases go down in number,
Don't see how it's fraud. She wanted money for stuff and they gave it to her. What was done wrong. They are creeps for going after a young women.
Geisha before the mid 18th century were all men, and for about a century women in the profession were what called for a distinction ( _onna geisha_ ). Arts such as music, singing and dancing have always been part of the profession, but so has conversation.
it's compulsion same as a gambler playing until they lose it all it's not about smarts.
#Me Too!
lol whatever that woman did was perfectly legal asking men to give her money on their own free will is not illegal it is what sugar babies do its their job
the men were stupid to fall for it she shouldn't get 1 day in prison lmao
Then why is she going to prison? You're just objectively wrong, because she's going to prison, hence what she did was not legal. Fraud is a thing. I'm betting that if some young guy had swindled some poor old grandma out of her life savings you'd be singing a different tune.
@@imnotmike Please educate us on the intricacies of Japanese law.= and how they define fraud.
Also, scams against the elderly aren't considered especially bad in the US because they get money, it's illegal because many of them have diminished capacity.
@@imnotmike LMAO i am saying the law doesn't make sense cause the men were stupid enough to give them money
@@knqxr I never claimed to know the intricacies of Japanese law. However, since she has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, what she did was obviously not legal. It's not rocket science, and you don't have to go through 8 years of law school in Japan to follow that logic.
How was the male stripper not guilty the same crime and the club that he works in?
Well, first of all, host/hostess clubs are not strip clubs. Everyone in them, are always fully clothed
...and also, the clubs provide exactly what they promise to provide. There is no fraud involved.
First, NOT a stripper. Second, host clubs are legal. There are male and female host clubs, businessmen find them to be great venues for company parties, meet and greets with clients, etc. They are service workers, like any others. Attractive people, to drink with you, and shoot the breeze. Nothing wrong with that, in itself.
@@markcollins2666 There are not male and female host clubs. Host clubs are male. HostESS clubs are female.
@@ZarlanTheGreen Thank you. Semantics. What would we do without trolls?
the host + club pay their income taxes. the government went after the "sugar baby" because she didn't pay them their CUT.
What meets the bar for criminal fraud might be different there than in other jurisdictions around the world. Victims rich enough to afford civil suits might actually get more support from law enforcement than do those of more modest means.
Let's bring this to America!
As others have said, host clubs are not strip clubs.
The numbers 1:11 seems to be wrong
Psychologists should study this sugar mama/baby.
I think 9 years is too much for what she did. In America what she did is not even illegal, is it?
Did she start scanning b4 or after she started obsessing over the guy at the Host Club 🤔