This is a kind of traditional scam that has been around for 100 years (not sure). It’s such an established spiel that anyone with bare minimum common sense might even hesitate to point the finger and scream, “THIS IS A SCAM!” (🔗Like this)
But I do, and you should, too. Let’s call out the blood-sucking parasites on the systematic drain, even if it may sound pedantic, or if you consider it not even a scam when you have a stranger knocking on the door and claiming to have come from the direction of the government building, rather than to be an authorized government agent.
Now I got the 2m14s video ad on YouTube. They say in the overlay text on the image of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building sitting in the thick teal frame, 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.
He doesn’t provide you with any financial support, but just wants to “help” you carry the paperwork for it and take some portion of the fund. Has he done anything illegal? I don’t know.
(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
