- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 12, 2013 00:47 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Crime, Dating, Fraud, Idol, Internet, Marketing, Otaku, Prostitution

A fake dating site offering desperate AKB48 fans the chance for an encounter with the object of their obsession has been busted, though not before managing to persuade 2100 such otaku that the emails they had their employees cobble together from blog posts were worth spending hundreds of millions of yen on.
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The very Chinese ingenuity with which a souvenir foodstuff has been packaged is the latest made in China product to be securing praise for its “innovative” marketing, both in China and beyond.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Apr 23, 2012 14:01 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Copyright, Crime, Fraud, Made in China, Marketing, Parody, Plagiarism

Far from being cracked down on, China’s fake brands actually seem to be getting more numerous – much to the despair of international brands and the general amusement of the Internet.
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The lovable little girl who used her sob story about needing cash to get to her sick grandfather’s sickbed to such great effect has been arrested after swindling some $500 out of the nearly 30 people she approached.
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In a reversal of the usual pattern, police are hunting a little girl for repeatedly swindling vulnerable adults with a sob story about urgently needing taxi fare to get to hospital to see her dying grandfather.
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Police raiding a soapland which advertised itself as providing “under-20s” after receiving a child prostitution tip found only old women, but arrested everyone anyway.
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A girl has been arrested for attacking the staff at a ryokan after they refused to pay her compensation for “accidentally” walking into the male baths.
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Sony has finally confirmed that all 77 million PSN accounts have been leaked to hackers, previously having maintained this was a “possibility,” and has revealed it found a calling card from “Anonymous” on a hacked server.
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A man living as a hikikomori hermit for the past 30 years has been arrested after it transpired he had hid his mother’s corpse for 3 years so he could use her pension to steal $80,000 to fund his plamo hobby.
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Sony has admitted that as a result of the hack which prompted it to take the PSN offline, hackers have stolen the personal data of all of its users, including their name and address, date of birth, passwords and security questions, purchase history and possibly credit card info.
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A man has been arrested for tricking over 1,000 underage schoolgirls into paying him for sex.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 29, 2011 19:39 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Bizarre, China, Comparison, Copyright, Fraud, Hollywood, Made in China, TV

A Chinese state news broadcaster has apparently been caught passing off dogfight footage from the Hollywood movie “Top Gun” as footage of China’s latest fighter jet destroying a target drone in a live fire exercise.
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