
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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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 3, 2011 20:52 JST
- Tags: Animals, Bizarre, China, Chongqing, Crime, Drugs, Fraud, Inu, Made in China, Shopping

Chinese pet shops are apparently injecting sick animals with drugs such as heroin in order to conceal their illnesses and make them look more lively to potential buyers, with the result that many of the animals drop dead shortly after purchase.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 4, 2010 09:11 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Crossdressing, Fraud, Henan, Marriage, Rape, Traps

A crossdressing boy who attempted to sell himself to a man as a bride was exposed when his new husband’s friend attempted to rape him on the couple’s wedding night.
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UNICEF Japan doesn’t only spend its donations suing critics into silence and campaigning against freedom of speech – it has also spent tens of millions of dollars building and maintaining its gigantic HQ in the middle of Tokyo.
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Coming immediately after the case of a 117-year-old man who turned out to be a mummy, the 113-year-old woman supposed to be the oldest person in Tokyo has “disappeared,” with family claiming not to have met her for 25 years.
Many now suspect that much of Japan’s elderly population may in fact be alive in name only, and maintained by unscrupulous relatives for the purpose of making fraudulent pension claims.
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The 111-year-old man recognised as Japan’s 2nd oldest is in fact a mummified corpse which died 30 years ago.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Apr 24, 2010 18:44 JST
- Tags: Babies, Bizarre, Crime, DPJ, Fraud, Korea, Law, Politics, Thailand

A Korean man living in Japan has reportedly adopted 554 children in order to claim 86 million yen in annual child support payments.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Apr 16, 2010 04:48 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Copyright, Crime, Eroge, Fraud, Hacking, Internet, Sites, Viruses

A cunning virus which masquerades as the installer to various pirated releases of popular software, especially adult games, was in fact part of a wider scheme to blackmail the pirates it caught into making payments if they wanted to have incriminating personal details removed from the web.
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The chief priest of a 500-year-old Buddhist temple allegedly burnt down his own temple to fraudulently collect millions of dollars in insurance and so pay off huge debts incurred in the course of a lavish lifestyle, which saw him frequenting hostess bars and driving about town in a BMW.
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