Elderly Woman Scammed By "Astronaut" Who Needed Oxygen Money

An 80-year-old woman in Japan has been swindled out of all her savings by a fraudster pretending to be an astronaut in space, who claimed he urgently needed money to buy oxygen.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Morning Drive with Christie Live on demand.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Today, the crazy train is heading out to Japan. You
kind of feel bad in this situation. An eighty year
old woman was talking to a man. She lived alone
and she met a man on social media back in July.
This man claimed that he was an astronaut. I don't
know how this astronaut found this eighty year old woman online,

(00:28):
but they developed a relationship. And then you already know
where this is going. The astronaut told her, you know what,
out here in space, we are under attack and I
need some money for some oxygen. So what did this
nice eighty year old woman who developed this relationship with

(00:49):
an astronaut do? She sent him some money one million yen?
What is going on with people? People are lonely, and
I feel bad, unlike Karina who's lessing at the eighty
year old woman who just got took by the astronaut
who is a jerk.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I do feel bad, but come on, it's so far fetched.
I'm an astronaut stuck in space. I'm calling you, not NASA, and.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
We're under attack, okay, but we don't need any help.
I just need some oxymen. That's gonna cost one million yen.
She sent him the money, and of course she continued
to send him money and then eventually realized she was
being scammed.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh I'm stuck. Send me Apple gift cards.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Maybe crazy?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Maybe he promised her the stars, Oh, the stars.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
This is your daily crazy news story. Poor lady Karina
has no sympathy. All right, Oh I know, sorry, No,
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I don't know what he's going to want happened there? WHOA?
How did that kind of.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Fakes it easy? Got me? How it feels?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
On the way to christ.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
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