In July of 2021, a young lady by the name of Watanabe Mai would appear on popular Japanese Youtuber Korekore's channel, and proceed to shock millions of netizens online. During the interview, she would brazenly boast about the millions of yen that she had received from various men, while also laying out her techniques and methods for doing so. This would eventually lead to her arrest several years later when another woman was reported for scamming men using Mai's methods, where she would ultimately be sentenced to prison time along with a fine. 

 

But what caught many people off guard wasn't just the fact that she was a love scammer, it was that even after scamming so many men, she was essentially broke and homeless; leaving everyone to wonder, where did all the money go?

 

Tune in to find out more.

 

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