This is a kind of traditional scam that has been around for 100 years. It’s so traditional that anyone with bare minimum common sense might even hesitate to point the finger at and scream, “THIS IS A SCAM!”, but I do. You should call them scammers too, even if it may sound pedantic, or if you consider it not even a scam, having a stranger knock on the door and claim he’s the one who came from the direction of the government building.
Now I got this 15-sec video ad on YouTube. They say in the overwrapping text on the image of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building framed in teal/dim green, which is uniformly seen in Japan’s governmental publications:
【Tokyo Metropolitan Gov】Notification:
Click the “Details” button for further info. Get the 4,150,000 JPY financial aid on average, and...
Of course, you are not seeing a local government’s announcement, but seeing just a random advertiser talking about one of the publicly known governmental funds.
Look, this is the actual name of the advertiser. You can see it just by maneuvering your mouse pointer with extreme precision onto the microscopic letter “🛈”, which is the only clickable one in the string “Sponsored 🛈 – setsuden-pro.com” displayed in the tiny font at the bottom left.
This guy is obviously not an agent from the Tokyo Metropolitan Municipality or any other governmental organization. He doesn’t provide you with any financial support, but just wants to “help” you carry the paperwork for it and take some portion out of the results.
(My Ad Center) Advertiser has not verified their identity yet /Advertiser: Paid for by SHOMIT, K.K. /Location: Japan See more
(Linked video URL) Shortened: 接プロ新動画冒頭1 (Screenshot)
(Linked website) https://setsuden-pro.com/lp13/ (Screenshot)
#AuthorityImposterScam #ScamYouTubeAd #補助金詐欺広告
