Japanese woman, 80, scammed out of thousands by ‘astronaut stranded in space’ who needed money for oxygen

He promised the stars…

An 80-year-old woman in Japan lost all her life savings to a scammer posing as an astronaut who claimed to be stranded on a besieged spacecraft and needed money to buy oxygen, according to a report.

The galaxy grifter began to orbit the lonely elderly woman from Hokkaido island after meeting on a social media app in July, and attempted to woo the pensioner before unraveling his con.

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