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<h3> I don&#8217;t need a reward, so &#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</h3>
 BBE Inc. is an entertainment agency that books a wide range of talents, including writer Keiki Shimoda (85) and &#8220;fighting world fantasista&#8221; Koji (36).
 BBE&#8217;s president, Hidemasa Omoto, is the man who discovered Serina (40), who dominated the SDN48 scene, and Yuri Murakami (32), Miss FLASH, and was the last manager of the late Tora Dan Nanbu of the &#8220;Dengeki Network. President Omoto said angrily, &#8220;I am ashamed to say that I have been scammed.
 I am ashamed to say that I was scammed and lost &#8230;&#8230;30 million yen. Some people may have the image of a rich man when they hear the word &#8220;entertainment agency president. But that is only a handful of offices that have a lot of successful talent. A negative balance of 30 million yen is a matter of life and death.
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 What exactly happened? The trigger was crypto assets.
 I bought crypto assets in the hope that they would provide funds to support the company in the future, but I couldn&#8217;t withdraw them anymore,&#8221; he said. I had managed them in a crypto wallet of a company called Blockchain.com, but I couldn&#8217;t log in anymore. I knew it was there, but I could no longer retrieve it.
 I was told that the problem was due to restrictions on IP addresses, or that I could log in by going overseas to access the site, and so on. Then one day, I saw an ad on a social networking site from Company X saying, &#8220;We will recover your crypto assets and virtual currency. It was last December.
 The gentle illustrations, the fact that the company had consulted with over 2,000 clients, and the fact that an international lawyer with expertise in IT legal affairs appeared on the website with his real name and face as a legal advisor, offering advice as needed, were reassuring factors.
 In mid-December, President Ohmoto requested the deactivation (restoration) of the crypto asset wallet. The release was made in February after the new year. The amount in Japanese yen was 20 million yen. The remuneration was 2 million yen, 10% of the unlocked amount, but the person in charge of Company X, who identified himself as Kaneda, said, &#8220;The 2 million yen was paid as a remuneration for the unlocking,
 The person in charge of Company X, who identified himself as Kaneda, asked, &#8220;Would you like to invest that 2 million yen with us instead of receiving it as a cancellation fee?　Would you like to buy our recommended NFT?
 I should have stopped at this point.
 I should have stopped at this point. Human greed is a scary thing, isn&#8217;t it? I thought it would be okay if the reward was 2 million yen, which would have been lost anyway, and I took the offer. Thinking back, I only exchanged phone calls and chats with Kaneda, who was in charge of the project. I never met him. Why did I trust him? &#8230;&#8230;
 With about 2 million yen of the reward for the release of the recovered crypto assets, he bought NFT recommended by X. The price doubled a few days later. It doubled in value a few days later.
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<h3> I can pay back 3 million yen.</h3>
 This is the kind of thing that just won&#8217;t stop. He plunged the entire amount into NFT, which was promoted by Company X, saying, &#8220;If it weren&#8217;t for them, I wouldn&#8217;t have gotten my money back,&#8221; and he also bought a crypto asset project in Singapore as he was lured. Both of these projects were heavily promoted by the company, which said, &#8220;Our research room has carefully selected these projects, so they are absolutely safe,&#8221; &#8220;The price will surely rise,&#8221; and &#8220;You only have a few days left to buy.
 President Ohmoto was in a position to make a big bet with a total of 30 million yen. &#8211; The crypto asset project in Singapore was locked up (unable to be sold), and NFT did not move in price at all, leaving no takers. Then, he said, he lost contact with Company X.
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 The company&#8217;s website says, &#8220;At first, they make you trust them by showing a little profit or dividend, and then they take it all in one fell swoop. &#8230;&#8230; That&#8217;s a typical scam technique, isn&#8217;t it? When I went to the address of company X on the website, I was told that it was a virtual office and that company X was not there. When I called the representative, I was told, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you tell us you moved? When I called the representative, I was told, &#8220;Didn&#8217;t you tell us that you moved? When I contacted the legal counsel who was listed on the website, he was puzzled and said, &#8220;They are using our name and photo without our permission.
 I can say this with a sense of reality because I was deceived, but how many scams there are in Japan. The other day, there was a news story about an old lady in the country who was cheated out of 300 million yen by a special scam. I decided to fight the scammers because I wanted to strike a blow against them somehow and sound a warning bell to the good people of the world.
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 He appointed Hidetoshi Nakano, an attorney who had unknowingly been made a legal advisor to Company X, to represent him. President Omoto and lawyer Nakano filed criminal charges against Company X for fraud and for obstruction of business by deception, respectively.
 In the course of preparing the charges, new facts came to light. A man named Eito Ito, who was overseas, was suspected of being the mastermind behind Company X. President Omoto continued.
 As X Corp. claimed on its website, Mr. Nakano is a lawyer with strong expertise in crypto asset issues, and through his own personal connections, he was able to trace the case back to Ito. Ito is a well-known figure in the crypto asset community with the alias &#8220;Kenji Sakakibara. Kenji Sakakibara is a well-known figure in the crypto asset community. He was a dark-skinned, fat, and cool guy, and was famous as a big-time customer in the nightlife district.
 A web search for &#8220;Eito Ito&#8221; turns up social networking posts and photos of A, a businessman known to have brought former House of Councilors member Yoshikazu Azumaya, a.k.a. Gershie, to Dubai and sheltered him there. The two had a honeymoon for a time, but are now said to be at loggerheads.
 When lawyer Nakano went to a place like the designated office, deposited his personal belongings, and asked Ito for a refund via the web, Ito said Ito lied and said, &#8216;I can give you back 3 million yen. It is as infuriating as it sounds. Criminals are grabbing money from their fellow countrymen from a safe zone beyond the reach of the Japanese police. They attack elderly people, women, and children, regardless of whether they are the victims or not. I will not tolerate these vile and cowardly villains.
 Despite the difficult economic situation in which he finds himself short of money to make ends meet, Mr. Omoto has decided to file a civil lawsuit.
 I am ashamed to have fallen for this scam, but I hope that by telling my story under my own name, I can prevent others from becoming victims like me,&#8221; he said. As I moved around, I made acquaintances in the crypto asset area. I also connected with the guys Ito and I were drinking with in Dubai. I will spend my life hunting down these scammers.&#8221;
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