An internet scam artist purporting to operate from Japan is believed to have conned several Kenyans hundreds of thousands of shillings under the pretext that he could sell to them used cars. Operating under a business name Auto Mart Japan, the crook conned one victim $2600 (Ksh208,000) for a Toyota corolla EE 102 he intended to purchase. The amount was a down payment for the car. The company has seen gone under ground and the message posted on their site,
www.automartjapan.com is from another claiming to have been conned into building the website. However, it offers a contact telephone claimed to be of Tokyo Metropolitan Police with some basic English-Japanese translations on how to report the crime.
