The Tokyo Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating the case of Clearce, a company that lured investors with the promise of a solid annual return of around 10,100 yen on server investments. In reality, it was a classic Ponzi scheme: new deposits financed the promised returns to existing investors, while no real value was created. Around 5,000 victims lost a total of approximately 25 billion yen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What makes this case unique is the packaging concept: IT infrastructure \u2013 in this case, physical servers \u2013 enjoys a high level of trust in Japan as a tangible and reputable form of investment. The perpetrators deliberately exploited this trust by using language that sounded like technical credibility: computing capacity, cloud infrastructure, digital value creation. For the victims, the idea of investing in real hardware was psychologically compelling \u2013 a trap perfectly tailored to this target group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presentation of real servers and seemingly verifiable infrastructure<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10% pa \u2013 plausible enough to circumvent skepticism<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New deposits finance existing investors \u2013 no real return<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5,000 victims, 25 billion yen in damages, investigations<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tokioter Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt: Gigantischer Anlagebetrug durch falsche Server-Investments aufgedeckt Die Tokioter Staatsanwaltschaft untersucht den Fall des Unternehmens Clearce, das Investoren mit einer vermeintlich soliden Rendite von rund 10 % j\u00e4hrlich auf Server-Investitionen lockte. Tats\u00e4chlich handelte es sich um ein klassisches Ponzi-Schema: Neue Einzahlungen finanzierten die Renditeversprechen an Altinvestoren, w\u00e4hrend keine reale Wertsch\u00f6pfung stattfand. Rund 5.000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betrugsschutz","tag-breaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youaretheinvestigator.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}