He promised the stars…
An 80-year-old woman in Japan lost all her life savings to a scammer posing as an astronaut who claimed to be stranded on a besieged spacecraft and needed money to buy oxygen, according to a report.
The galaxy grifter began to orbit the lonely elderly woman from Hokkaido island after meeting on a social media app in July, and attempted to woo the pensioner before unraveling his con.
A Japanese woman sent an “astronaut stranded in space” thousands of bucks so he could afford “oxygen.” Vadimsadovski – stock.adobe.com
He told the woman he was an astronaut stranded “in a spaceship right now” which was “under attack and in need of oxygen,” Sky News reported .
She kindly sent the “astronaut” roughly $6,700 to fill his lungs, but cops said he just stuffed his pocket