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 &#8220;If you can&#8217;t pay, go to a convenience store and withdraw your money!&#8221;
 If you can&#8217;t pay, go to the convenience store and drop the money off!
 The bar clerk was yelling at customers and demanding large sums of money from them.
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 On April 6, the Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s Security Division announced the arrest of 16 male and female employees of a bar in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, on suspicion of violating the Tokyo Metropolitan Government&#8217;s rip-off ordinance (prohibition of collecting unreasonable charges, etc.). The employees ranged in age from 19 to 34. The arrested women are alleged to have invited male customers they met on a matching app to their bar, had them drink alcohol, and made them pay hundreds of thousands of yen. At least five men were victims.
 The woman met up with a man she met on a matching app at JR Shinjuku Station and other locations. She hid the fact that she was an employee and invited them to the bar where she worked, saying, &#8216;I have a restaurant I want to go to.
 The restaurant would explain that &#8216;all you can drink for 5,000 yen,&#8217; and invite customers to participate in a card game. The woman would invite the customers to &#8216;take off your clothes for a round of shots if you lose,&#8217; and would get them drunk. Some customers were forced to drink nearly 100 shots in one gulp.
<h2> (A reporter from a national newspaper&#8217;s society section) &#8220;They copied his insurance card and came to his house.</h2>
 The male customers who drank shots were not included in the system, even though they were offered &#8220;all-you-can-drink for 5,000 yen.
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 The shots cost more than 3,000 yen each. The restaurant refused to accept credit card payments for fear of leaving a trace. Only cash was accepted. Few people would be able to pay several hundred thousand yen in cash immediately after being charged several hundred thousand yen. Some customers were asked to pay more than 300,000 yen.
 The employees surrounded the drunken customers and threatened them, saying, &#8220;Go to the convenience store and get the money. Go to the convenience store and withdraw the money! We won&#8217;t let you leave until you pay us! They would threaten the drunken customers, saying, &#8220;We won&#8217;t let you leave until you pay us! If they still didn&#8217;t have enough cash, they would go to jewelry stores and take precious metals that the customers had purchased with their credit cards. In some cases, they copied their insurance cards and driver&#8217;s licenses, and even broke into their homes,&#8221; he said.
 In Kabukicho, rip-off crimes using matching apps have been frequent. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the total amount of damage this year alone amounted to approximately 57 million yen.
 According to the Metropolitan Police Department, this year alone, the total amount of victims was approximately 57 million yen. If a woman says, &#8216;I want to go to that restaurant,&#8217; they will go with her in an attempt to win her heart.
 But once in a rip-off bar, it will be difficult to escape the crime. There are several employees for every customer, and it is a closed room. It is important not to be tempted by a stranger,&#8221; says a writer who is familiar with Kabukicho.
 Many of the rip-off bars are not usually open. They pretend to be open only when the women who work there bring men to the bar, so that no other customers are allowed in.
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 Shinji Hasuo

 There have been many incidents of rip-off bars using matching apps. A woman employee solicits men she meets on the app, saying, "I have a restaurant I want to live in. When they went to the bar, she made them drink at once and charged them hundreds of thousands of yen. Here are the details of the shudder-inducing tactics.

A beautiful and true picture of a “solicitor’s woman” who rips you off at Kabukicho Matching.

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