"Legendary Investor" "Give 100,000 yen a month" Lie video suspected fraud September 25, 20:44

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Men who were distributing “Legendary Investors” advertising videos on the Internet, such as “Would you like to participate in the“ GIFT Project ”where you can get 100,000 yen every month” were arrested on suspicion of fraud. The police are investigating that they have collected more than 900 million yen from the whole country in terms of the cost of participating in the project.

A total of five people were arrested, including Yuki Yagi, a self-proclaimed self-employed person (31), and Suichi Koichi Ito (65), a self-employed person in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture.

According to the police, five men and women in their 40s and 60s said, “If you participate in the“ GIFT project ”and pay the participation fee, you will increase your investment and give 100,000 yen or more every month” There is a suspicion of fraud for soliciting in that story and cheating over 520,000 yen in total.

Five people distributed videos on the Internet to promote the lie project, and were recruiting customers from across the country.

In the video, Mr. Ito named himself “Legendary Investor Kotaro Kato” and said, “We can make more than 35% of profits by investing each month, and we will give more than 100,000 yen as a gift for every lifetime without doing anything.” Solicited.

However, even if you paid the participation fee, you did not receive a "gift".

The police are proceeding with the elucidation of the actual situation on the assumption that a total of over 900 million yen has been collected from a total of 6800 people nationwide with the same technique.

Pay with flashy videos

In the “GIFT Project” video, Ito appears as an 8 billion yen wealthy and introduces the project by answering interviews.

Mr. Ito explained that instead of just creating a securities account and putting in cash, it will be used instead and will give a gift of 100,000 yen or more every month as a gift.

Using light music and flashy telops, it is directed to “pay 100,000 yen every month for life!” “There are several people whose lives have already changed” and so on.

He claims that he can get a yield of more than 35% a month with his genius investment technique, and he appears to have succeeded in investing by showing watches such as a total of 30 million yen.

Victim "I trust in the video"

A 50-year-old man in the Chugoku region who received the damage received an email saying “Otsutoshi will give a gift of 100,000 yen every month in April. I thought it would be fun. When I watched the video, I felt the friendliness and trust of the man who appeared on the video, ”he recalled.

The men paid 700,000 yen in total, but 100,000 yen was never given.

As a result of the civil lawsuit, 700,000 yen was repaid, but the man said, `` Self-employed income is unstable and the child is still a college student and felt anxious about the future, so it is a little plus I thought I should have had enough income, so I deposited my money. The suspects felt frustrated. "