A promise of marriage , through an online chat , by an elusive Russian astronaut , convinced a Japanese woman to pay a large sum of money to return the man to Earth.
It happened in Shiga prefecture, west of Tokyo , according to the police, explaining that the 65-year-old woman transferred 4.4 million yen, the equivalent of 30 thousand euros , to an account reported by the man who claimed to be on the International Space Station, and that he intended to marry her.
The money, it was specified in the request, would be used to finance the journey from the orbiting station aboard a rocket, as well as cover the costs for landing on planet Earth.
Suddenly the sum transferred between August and September seemed no longer enough to carry out the project, with the man asking for even more money. It was there that the woman became suspicious and at that point she decided to go to the police .
(Unioneonline / vl)
