🔁 日本語に切り替える / Switch to Japanese

The big wave is hitting me so hard this week that I see Masayoshi Son’s face on my YouTube feed 5-10 times a day both on PC and mobile. I’ve been familiar with these guys already, but never expected to spot their activity in Nigeria. It was shown in the link “See More Ads” in Google’s My Ad Center. So, they are likely to be coming from the same place where those funny emails come from, which are written by an abused royal princess or a recently deceased high-ranking military officer’s widow who need help to transfer $50 million bank account out of the country.

They’ve been around since late 2024 on YouTube, and 🔗here is the recent journal I’ve kept since Sep 16, 2025. They all feature fake celebrities or politicians, and tell their bizarre stories about the secret money generator in the form of news on major media outlets or a big corporation’s official announcement. They occasionally modify their narratives correspondingly as the cast and stage change, but once Masayoshi became their shining star, they seem to want only to push Masayoshi’s story further and further.

• 2025 Jun – Masayoshi was arrested for accidentally exposing the secret free money recipient registry on the live talk show.
• 2025 Sep – Masayoshi released the new type of investment system that allows all Japanese cell phone users to generate big money at home lawfully.
• 2025 Dec – The Japanese government approved SoftBank’s innovative investment automation app.

I’m guessing their online ad workflow is quite normal, despite their illegality, as I’ve often observed their new campaign starting with A/B testing and multiple landing pages. The results are mostly predictable to me based on the universal principle, “The more ridiculous it sounds, the better it works”.

That said, every sentence they craft is more or less awkward anyway, as they obviously don’t have a real Japanese speaker in the making. I suspect they don’t even really understand anything they put in their Japanese taglines, but the established industial method for Google Ads spontaneously forced them to evolve over time in a funny way.

Anyhow, they finally maxed it out with the latest versions, claiming $1 million in 15 weeks for all Japanese citizens delivered by Masayoshi + SoftBank, fully backed up by the Japanese government. It has become the most aggressive scam ad campaign series ever of all time.

I also observed their brand-new fake news featured with Japan’s current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for the same ad’s landing page. But it might just be one of their test runs, and that’s another story.

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