The Cunning Tactics of Kabukicho’s Notorious Dating Scam Duo Yuri the Turtle Dash and Laila the Fast Runner

As Fast as an Adult Man? No. 2, Also Known as “Laila the Fast Runner”

No. 2 is also called “Laila the Fast Runner.” She uses a similar method to “Yuri the Turtle Dash,” but when she flees from the hotel with the money, her running speed is said to be incredibly fast. A video of a young woman sprinting through the hotel district, known as “Laila the Fast Runner,” has been a hot topic on X for some time.

I watched the video, and she is indeed so fast that even young men can’t catch up to her. The name “Laila” seems to come from her handle when she was live streaming on a certain platform, and that’s how she became known as “Laila the Fast Runner.”

It seems she uses a “mama-katsu” app. Mama-katsu is where men get paid by women to go on dates. “Laila the Fast Runner” is estimated to be in her mid-30s, and it appears her main targets are men in their 20s.

“Men show up at the meeting spot thinking they’ll get paid to go to the hotel. However, once inside, ‘Laila the Fast Runner’ reportedly says something like, ‘I want to meet regularly, so please pay 20,000 yen upfront as a contract fee.’ It’s a strange story, and mama-katsu itself is already full of suspicious elements, but men in their 20s seem to fall for it. There’s also a case where men, meeting through a regular dating app for a no-strings-attached encounter, were left alone when she ran away while they were taking a shower,” explained a writer familiar with Kabukicho.

The love hotel frequently used by “Laila the Fast Runner” is in an area near Okubo Park, where foreign streetwalkers gather at night. Unfortunately, despite investigating the area, she couldn’t be found.