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Looking for a beautiful young woman who goes by Yuki Takahashi but is Not the famous woman. Very unique…Half Japanese, half French. Blonde hair and vibrant blue eyes.
Somewhere in Tokyo. Very slight build and 5'6" tall, with very fair skin.
Her best friends name is Akita.
I have photos of her but see no way to download them here. She was a part of an AI trading platform called KENSKR. I was scammed by them and believe she was too.
 
Just a thought... but blue eyes are a recessive gene, and I've never heard of a person of Japanese ancestry having them, aside from a small number of Ainu people. How did you come to know about this woman?

Sorry to hear you had been scammed, I hope they didn't take you for too much.
 
Long story
Yuki friended me on Facebook dating just after my divorce.
After initially asking her why someone so young was interested in someone almost twice her age, we began texting.
She claimed to live in Miami.
She asked to switch to telegram for texting which I did not like.
After several weeks of exchanging photos and flirting and talking, she started mentioning quantitative, artificial investment trading through a company with the acronym KENSKR.
At first I was very standoffish and told her I'd know what she's trying to do, etc. and I am not going to fall for anything. I wanted to cut it off but she said no I'm going to open an account for you and show you how it works so you can see for yourself and then decide if you want to invest. so, I downloaded some apps she suggested and she opened an account for me and put $20,000 of supposedly her money in it. It is a strange platform where you invest a certain amount per week and must pledge for 120 days to get the maximum interest back. so, after one week, she asked me if I wanted to withdraw some money. Knowing it was her money but my account I said sure, but I will give it back to you to which she said no I want you to keep investing. So, I went through $10,000 and went through a series of wallets before it ended up in my bank account Three days later. There it was, $10,000. I did a lot of research found nothing bad and hesitantly began to deposit $5000 first of her 20,000 and then my own. I won't get into everything else but we had planned on meeting, of course, and sharing a life together and traveling the world and living like king and queen. I will cut further ahead to December when I went to Miami to meet her but a week before I came, she suddenly had to go to Japan to be with her sick mother who had Covid. Her father supposedly lives in France with her brother. So I went to Miami and I have friends there and had a good time. At this point I had invested $200,000 of my own money and she had supposedly put in 250,000 of hers and my account with KENSKR showed a balance of $1,200,000. All this time in the back of my head said something is not right. There was a Chat group for other investors with almost 300 people on it and we interacted each day. There was an office and team leaders and all kinds of things that you would chat with and get information. There were white papers they sent out to everybody, etc.,
when I returned from Miami, I wanted to withdraw a small amount because the mid of January my 120. Day commitment. Would end and I could if I wanted withdraw all of my money or keep investing and take out as much as I wanted.
January 2, 2023, probably the worst day of my life. I tried to withdraw $20,000 and was sent a notice by the office that the interest/capital gains in my account required taxes to be paid before any withdrawal could be made. They wanted me to deposit $148,000.. I texted Yukki and she was also dealing with it. When I went to the group no one was there it had been shut down. Interestingly enough, the group consisted of 98% men and 2% women who were models if you will. Each of these women was a perfect 10 which I questioned from the beginning. KENSKR, or whatever they are was demanding I come up with the tax money even if I was going to withdraw just $5000 lol. I knew something was wrong and I said we pay our own taxes in the United States and they were claiming it was an international new law, which was a bunch of crap. I was out $200,000 which I desperately needed to start my life over after my divorce and I blamed Yukki and claimed that she was part of the scam which to this day. I don't know if that is true or not. Apparently, she was scammed also and lost , almost $3 million of her own plus her real estate holdings in Tokyo. The last time we texted she was very depressed and wanted to come live with me in the United States. Her friend Akita is the one who contacted me because she knew Yukki very well and told me Yukki loved me and that she is very depressed. I said sure you can come here. The Akita started saying that I needed to pay for Yukki's plane ticket for her to come here and it could only be first class lol. Those tickets for first class are around $5000. I suggested I come to Tokyo and meet her finally, and fly back with her and she Said her mother would not like that. All kinds of excuses at the end they wanted me to buy crypto lol and send them that. I am not sure what really happened and I find very few people who have been through the same scam, if it is a scam with KENSKR.
I know it's based in Singapore I have a bank and a routing number and an account number I was sending the money to to invest. My bank, Bank of America the worst bank in the world would not help me at all, even though I never received a good or service. I filed with the FBI, who basically can do nothing, except for help the next person down the line possibly. I have several more photos of her but no idea where she might be in Tokyo if she is at all it is a longshot but I really want to just meet her and ask her what happened. I need to know for my own sanity, because this is been the hardest thing I've ever been through . I posted on Reddit and most of them on their call you a dummy for falling for the first place. Trust me, I am the most skeptical person in this can happen to anyone. It is a trauma, a nasty undertaking, and these people are trained in classrooms to get every detailed down. They look for vulnerable people possibly just divorced who are lonely and feed on that and your emotions with beautiful photos of gorgeous ladies. It happens to women also. I feel so alone in this and I feel she is the only person I can actually confront in a kind and gentle way where I would like to just talk to her , I have no idea where this will lead but I can't stop thinking about her because I love her and at the same time I don't even know if she really exists or if her identity was stolen and she has no idea even exist or if she was truly scammed as well. we were so far advanced in our our relationship that we were going to actually get a KENSKR regional store where we would receive millions from others investing as their team leaders. I went from La La Land to hell and six months, and the only thing in the kept me going were my three adult children, who at first were angry and now support me as well as my elderly parents. I have a very hard time talking about what I went through because it's embarrassing and humiliating but I can never stop thinking about Yukki if that is her real name.
 
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I am really sorry that you've been through this. It does sound like a sophisticated scam, though a few warning signs are there: the early move to a different app with less monitoring, the low-resolution photos, the fact that you never met (or I guess even had a video chat). Unfortunately, mistrust is the best default behaviour online, and I never 'friend' anyone unknown who approaches me. Another recent strategy is the 'innocent' mistake, particularly from an attractive woman: I once had a 'Hi! I really enjoyed your tour when we came to Japan last year. I hope we can meet again next year' message on WhatsApp from someone in Hong Kong. I am not a tour guide! When I pointed out the mistake, the woman was way too keen to continue the conversation.
 
I'm sorry to hear your story. I'm not going to kick you when you're down but I honestly believe this girl is fictional. Why have these pixelated style images except to obfuscate the image? I would bet money they are A.I. generated. The phone with the two square cameras doesn't look like any modern iPhone or Samsung. The feet in the ones with her presumably laying on a bed don't seem quite natural. Here's beautiful girl I generated just now using just two sentences.



I found mention of the scam here by a California victim but it might be your story reported by you or your kids. Unless you're not in California then it's definitely another victim of the same scam.
 
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@JackinMarylandUS I am so sorry to tell you what you already knew but didn't want to believe. You were taken in at a moment of vulnerability, and your hope and desire filled in all the details and overcame your misgivings and skepticism. It's almost a certainty that this woman as you know her doesn't exist. Everything in your story reads as an elaborate con. The root of con is confidence, which is what was inspired when you seemed to receive actual money from someone, in order to build trust so you would return the favor. You probably poured your heart out to them, and your feelings for them were real, but it was a ruse that worked so well that you're still concerned that she might've been conned too. Every other person in that chat was either in on it or a mark as well, and the beautiful women you described were catfishing men like you probably to the tune of millions. This was a very elaborate scam, and it has evolved over time to cover all those bases to make you feel confident in the scheme until the rug is pulled out from under you.

A horrendous fraud has been perpetrated against you, and it is your right to grieve the hopes and dreams that you had built up, but you must discard the veil of willfulness that Yuki is anything but a criminal who stole from you through deception.

Please keep your family close and look to them for trust and support, a part of the scam is to sow division between you and your loved ones, to help isolate you and make you easier to manipulate. I'm just a random stranger on the internet, but I do say truthfully that I have personal experience in my family with that kind of undue influence. Best of luck, and I would make sure to report this fraud to the FTC as well as the FBI, here are the relevant sites for that:


 
This looks like a mashup of a romance scam and an investment scam. The main scam, however, would be the romance scam.

I'm afraid that as has been stated already, she almost certainly is not a real person. Even if she were, she will never meet with you. She wouldn't meet you earlier, why would she meet you for any reason now?

It's time to cut your losses and do your best to move on from this fiasco. I don't think there are any better solutions for you. You need to stop interacting with anyone associated with this person. The sooner the better, before they convince you send more good money after the bad money.
 
It seems like this is a variation of a recent trend in elaborate scams, gruesomely known as "pig butchering." This was just released by Last Week Tonight

Every minute of this video is disturbing, and rings completely true to Jack's experience.

I have personally gotten many of these "wrong number" texts, and only the first time did I bother responding at all, politely telling them several times to "have a good one" before they stopped haranguing me. I now report them all as spam.

This is a major crime wave, and needs to be addressed.
 
The OP's story does make me wonder if you could scam the scammer and abscond with the initial trust building $10,000 "she" gave him. But the problem is they are all anonymous and they would have personal information they could use to make life difficult.
 
yeah if the actual money landed in his bank account, it seems like that would have been the last chance to pull stakes without any significant loss, but like you said at that point they already have a lot of personal information about their victim (whereas the victim has no real information about them), and they could decide to target him for all kinds of stuff if they wanted.

I think there are a couple of reasons the scammers feel secure in sending funds like this:
  • As I mentioned, the main reason they do this is to build confidence by showing trust in the victim, making them more likely to reciprocate the trust; that initial risk is a down-payment to extract more money later on.
  • Although it seems like a lot of money, it doesn't actually represent much risk to the scammer:
    • The money they deposited into his account was probably stolen from other people, and there's no actual investment vehicle
    • if they're taking each mark for hundreds of thousands of dollars or more (one victim in the above video had 2.5 million stolen from her), ten grand is a drop in the bucket
    • If they really wanted to, they could come after the victim with all the personal information they've extracted, either by blackmail or other forms of harassment. A sophisticated operation might just have a team to hand it off to when they need to get nasty like this
  • Unless they are an experienced scambaiter, the victim is very unlikely to take advantage and run off with the funds:
    • the scammer almost always is the one to initiate contact, either in trawling expeditions like the "wrong number" examples, or in a directly targeted romance scam on a dating platform like Jack experienced.
      • Sidebar: I call this "picking your victim," and this is why I'm very wary of touts around transportation hubs or tourist areas; anyone who initiates contact wants SOMETHING from you. It's no guarantee, but you are much better off "picking your helpers," than letting the predators come to you.
    • They've already established a rapport with the victim and determined that they're a "good person" who wouldn't run away with "someone else's" money
    • A decent ratio of people are "lawful good" in that they'd never want to get sideways with the law, even if they were stealing from thieves. The mere threat of law enforcement and consequences can be enough to keep people in line, and there are many scams that actually capitalize on this by calling you and saying that you have a warrant out for your arrest, or that the IRS (tax service) is after you
 
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