Japanalysis did a great job covering this in-dept 6 months ago. The tax-evasion part was exposed by that interview she did with a RU-vidr called KoreTube where she basically snitched on herself responding with confusion once he asked if she paid any taxes. It's a great video I'd recommend if you want to fully understand the lengths she went in her stupidity.
Oh yeah that’s right i forgot he mentioned that lol. This is also just so on point Japan. Where your committing a crime and if you get interviewed that felon will confess that crime they did lol.
There's some more information left outta that article that I thought was pretty funny. She went on some radio show/podcast and ratted on herself to the host, thinking it would make her sound cool. He was calling her a criminal and called her out on the taxes being dodged and she threatened him to not release the tape, but he did anyway
It's kind of disappointing to see them being able to deliver harsh punishments when it comes to drugs or money fraud but leniency and misplaced empathy when it comes to assault and child abuse.
I saw this before. Apparently, she was also obsessed with Korekore (Japanese keemstar) and did everything she could to get on his show, at which point she just straight admitted to her fraud to the entire internet in an incredibly nonchalent way.
The fact that a chronically lonely girl has the self-awareness to scam similarly lonely people, while knowingly falling victim to the same scam herself for some sliver of companionship (and using her own scams to fund that relationship no less) is perhaps as Japan as Japan gets.
I remember watching another RU-vid video about this. Since she basically scammed the three men saying she was in debt, gets all this money. Then, to find out she’s also in debt because she spends all her money on a single man in a host club because she was lonely 😂. The cruel irony because she was scammed the same way that she scammed the three men. (Edit). I think the host she was buying is also being investigated for fraud as well if I’m not mistaken I forgot.
Host clubs are super shady, Many girls in Japan are forced into sex work due to host clubs Host can get these girls drunk, and they do one of two things Drug their drink, and then do stuff and blackmail them Or while they are intoxicated, they put a lot of drinks onto a tab, meaning you owe the club so then they put you into contact with a brothel
As someone that frequently watches videos about scammers getting busted, you would not believe how many scammers end up being conned by the dumbest sh*t.
Yeah interviews with former hosts is really polarizing. They tell how they're encouraged to tell their victims (they are victims) to lie, steal and scam to afford their company. The more they're with them the higher they charge, to the point they even tell these young men and women to steal or prostitute themselves. Only once they can no longer pay or another victim is getting them more money, do they 'dump' them. This is why I was not a fan of Joey giving that one host any screen time. It is a predatory job, manipulating the desperate and lonely.
@@TotallyAGoblinone thing, you’re confusing host clubs that are likely run by yakuza and host clubs that aren’t. Roland is from the latter, meaning he didn’t engage in any of that stuff.
@@TermiJPnope. Those hosts meet up with women outside of work, to make them beilive they are “the one” so they give more money to host club, and make the hosts win
it's the "I can fix her" trap card... the 3 dudes got scammed after falling for her sympathy trap. Poor dudes... she got them with a consecutive 3 hit super combo finish 😢
What exactly is the scam? The whole relationship between a sugar baby and sugar daddy is she spends time with him and what not and he gives her the sugar. I dont understand whats legally wrong, morally yes, but you dont go to prison for that. These men didnt give her money for nothing, sex, time and what not, and even if she lied to maybe get more pity sugar, its still not a legal crime . These men are just pissed that, the money she got from them went to some hot guy lol If getting money from men was a crime then how is onlyfans legal? They gave her money willing, and she wasn't in a committed relationship, so she can be with many men as she wants, and she wasnt legally married to them so there is no way this can become a crime
@@yansakuya1 even that... I'm not sure if thats a crime 🤔 also when you say "scam" its referring to her tricking these men. Morally is wrong but not legally. And how she did it, is what she was sharing yeah? So yeah, I don't see how that's illegal. I don't know, it just seems kinda eh... Japan literally has companies where you can pay and rent a girlfriend/boyfriend and other family members and what not. Even prostitution is a thing in Japan, so when a girl becomes a sugar baby and gets money from men, I don't see what the crime is... all I can see clearly is, these men were butt hurt not by the fact that she took their money (they gave her money) but because the money she earned, she spent it on some dude.
Sounds literally like a regular sugar baby/or sexwork. Also not every sugar baby is doing sexual services, some are like rent a girlfriend situation which Joey is a fan of and had made several videos of? Most people say the fraud part is the not paying taxes but in my country everyone avoids paying them so its weird to see someone called out at the same level as a murderer for something thats a regular tuseday in Bulgaria?
Yeah Joey , tell us about the Japanese Iguana that can talk , and the Bull Balls men eat to gain a deeper voice in the Coast of Nigata Prefecture. Not every news have to be so morbid and cruel 😢
She's no better or worse than the men giving her money, IMO. They paid for "services," and she used the money to buy "services" as well. It's not paying taxes, outing herself, etc, where she did the criminal/stupid acts. Poor dear. And I hope someone looked into the Host as well. Either everyone is sus here, or no one...
So she defrauded men by selling herself, to be defrauded by a man who is selling himself and knows the money she's using to pay him is dirty and she's getting done for taxes?
Japanese women can be terrifying, don't let their cuteness fool you XD Also I saw a video interview with her a while back, and the interviewer was being very understanding and non-judgemental, but there were a couple times where you could tell he was just flabbergasted
"The defendant spent the money she obtained from the three men on a host whom she fell in love with, with the aim of making him No. 1 in terms of sales" The real winner here
Not sure that he's a "winner" because he also might be going to prison if he's found guilty of aiding/abetting her. Considering the fact that he was arrested & the high conviction rate of the Japanese legal system, I'm guessing he'll also be going to prison.
I remember seeing a video about her. Pretty sure they mentioned in that video she was married as well to a guy from another Asian country. Not sure if the article mentions that. They mentioned in the video that the host she spend all the money on was also being investigated. In the other video as well they showed her getting interviewed by a Japanese RU-vidr and when he confronted her and called her a bad person she let out these very annoying high pitch shrieks that still haunt my nightmares.
This entire thing is weird, the Girl, the Creepy Host stuff, Japan is just Odd. For a Country that has so much that can be admired, there are things that are just freaky and unpleasant.
And the reality is part of why Japan's crime rate is low is the f-ed up fact many crimes like sexual crimes are less likely to be reported or won't get reported due to the culture of not getting involved
I'm not sure exactly what part of what she did actually constituted fraud. None of the articles go into details. Being a manipulative, cheating gold digger, while immoral, I don't think is usually illegal. Am I missing something?
She was basically a Nigerian Prince; she'd tell these men that she needed money for hospital bills, that the Yakuza was after her and things like that. That's more than just being manipulative. She also outright called what she was doing a scam and told others to do the same, which is how she caught the attention of the police. She paid taxes for most of the scammed money, afaik she only got fined for tax evasion.
Yeah I got the same impression at first and some Japanese people even accused the victims, which is pretty wild in my opinion. I guess it simply depends on how the "victims" preceive what she did. Only if she was little smarter and those guys didn't find out that she was lying and selling the manual of "how to cast spell", it wouldn't end up like this.
@@punospoo6 Selling her manual was her most critical mistake, because some of the people she sold it to, who started following her plan, were less careful about "aftercare" - meaning the part where you make sure your victim feels all right about the whole thing. One of her imitators, after getting a payout, ignored her victim entirely at first and eventually left the text message, "[Her name] has been kidnapped." Twice. To victims in the same general neighborhood, who quite understandably after seeing that message went to the police. The police investigated, found her, found the manual... and at that point the original scammer was pretty well in for it.
"You're just so blinded by all the daily occurrences that you see on the news and on the internet that you might think the world is full of rainbows and candy." I don't know what your news feed is like, but mine is the exact opposite of that.
You know what is crazy? Women stateside do similar stuff. There is a young woman who got pregnant by a young pro basketball player, broke up with him, got him paying the child support, and then wrote a book about how she did it.
I remember hearing about this girl. She outed herself on some tiny YT channel during an interview and the dude reported her lol Absolutely wild. Glad that she finally got sentenced...thanks for the update!
papa katsu for hosts is pretty common in japan.. especially the kabukichou area there are tons of girls standing there to get picked up close to the kabukichou park
I was wondering when you were going to cover this. I learned about it from a guy who talked about the shit she did by comparing it to the DENNIS system lol
For crying out loud, the culprit went on a pod cast and was like... "Ehehehe, Taxes, what's that?" No wonder she got caught. She was extremely good at manipulating men, but she had no idea about how the adult world works. And now imagine if an actually smart person were to do this... which they do. Oh, and the host that she frequented got arrested too.
man how comes that everyone is covering this now? is it because she just caught her official sentence or something ? Japanalysis covered it 6 months ago in full depth. but hey thank you Joey. it's a really devastating news to hear indeed
Back in November last year I heard this topic while I was in akihabara, my own hotel warned me about people in bars with scams but this is another level of insanity
Oh I remember this girl. She did an interview that went kinda sour and exposed her for everything and more. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 But if people want to do it that’s on them.
Hurt people tend to hurt people. It's sad that she felt like she had to result to crime to get noticed. This doesn't excuse her actions. I do wonder if this is an example of a wider problem of loneliness.
I have this weird feeling that whoever the hell the host guy was, he was in on the scam. At least coercing the girl to get more money. Mental illness and loneliness is a hell of a drug. Everyone in this story has some fault in it.
The whole story is crazy. The only reason they got her was because one of the girls that got her guide book DIDNT follow it correctly and got caught, which led back to Mai. Mai also has a husband and was living like she was poor because ALL the money went to the host guy.
People are being too exculpatory of the host club angle, but it’s getting to the point where it is a serious problem. That industry needs cleaning up from top to bottom. What they do is as bad if not worse than what this woman did to those men, that is, scam a huge number of lonely young women out of their money, and ensnare them into debt traps that force them into sex work in Kabukicho.
I need to find me a girl that loves me as much as this girl loves her host. Ladies, take notes. Fr though, addiction is no joke. Look what Ippei did to Shohei. Addiction to hosts isn't that different from addiction to gambling.
I remember this shit the only reason why she got caught was cause someone who bought the manual ignored one of the steps she had listed was ignored and the guy the girl had scammed had notified the police. Before that she got interviewed by korekore
the male host and the club that benefited from the fraudster girl also got charged with something as well. think it was tax evasion, and some other stuff
If there's one thing I've learned in line it's: "If something sounds too good to be true, it's probably false." And this is a perfect example of that lesson.
that's definetly some of those men revenge and not a crime-crime, isn't it I mean - they did recieve benefits they were paying for - so what's the scam part
