Vi Thi Lan and two accomplices allegedly lured 13 people to the Golden Triangle with promises of "easy work and high salaries," then sold them to scam operations for commissions.
An 80-year-old woman in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, lost one million yen after believing a scammer posing as an astronaut who claimed to need money for oxygen due to a spaceship malfunction.
Despite his parents' warnings about a scam involving fake police threats, a 17-year-old was manipulated into breaking his family's safe and selling gold to "pay investigators."
