‘Russian astronaut’ scams woman out of £27,000 for ‘rocket landing expenses’
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‘Russian astronaut’ scams woman out of £27,000 for ‘rocket landing expenses’

A man who claimed to be a Russian astronaut in orbit who needed the money to travel down to Earth to marry a 65-year-old Japanese woman has conned her out of £27,350.

In June, the two started corresponding on Instagram, where the man’s profile was filled with images of space and said that he was stationed on the International Space Station, according to a Vice report.

Shortly after, the man started telling the anonymous woman that he loved her, that he wanted to marry her, and that he wanted to relocate to Japan so that they could begin their new life together.

Between August 19 and September 5, the woman wired her alleged fiancé 4.4 million yen (£27,350) after he said he needed it to pay for a rocket and landing costs so they could come to Earth and be married.

Vice said that the woman finally got skeptical of the space cowboy and denounced him to the authorities; the matter is presently being looked into as a romantic fraud.

Action Fraud estimates that romantic fraud costs the UK up to £92 million annually, with Valentine’s Day and Christmas Day being the two most frequent times of year for victims.


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