A scammer took the life savings of an 80-year-old woman in Japan after they pretended to be an astronaut and begged the woman for money to buy oxygen, according to the New York Post.

Scammer Poses As Astronaut And Convinces Victim To Give Money For Oxygen

The swindler met the woman from Hokkaido on a social media app in July. As the two began chatting, the scammer was feigning a romance with the woman.

Sometime during their false relationship, the grifter eventually told the elderly woman he was “under attack and in need of oxygen,” Sky News reported.

The woman believed him when he told her he was “in space on a spaceship right now.” Believing this was true love, the victim transferred the scammer around one million yen, roughly $6,700 USD, to the supposedly dying astronaut.

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