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The story
“Itadaki Girl” Riri-chan — the nickname for a type of scammer who cons men out of cash and gifts — is currently serving time for fraud. She sparked a stir on 5ch after posting an apology letter and wish list on social media whose real intent was hard to pin down. In the thread, users dug up old photos of her and voiced concern over her mental state, while others pointed out that a woman had actually been arrested for romance fraud after using the “crime manual” Riri-chan had sold.
What people said
Wonder if the third pic is the one showing her true feelings?
That's hilarious.
Wait, Riri-chan was back in 2023? Time really flies.
Guess she already had mental health issues back then.
She's the spitting image of Hirame-chan from Jarinko Chie (the flat-faced character from that old anime).
That's gotta be a lie, right, Riri…? You've already got a man like me 😭
I think she got into some money dispute with a guy who was basically her husband.
She's acting like some big-shot author.
lol her real name isn't even Riri, it's Maina.
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Her face isn't drop-dead gorgeous or anything, but she's totally the type guys fall for fast 😳♥
She could go full VTuber once she's out.
I hear women's prison is actually pretty comfortable.
If she'd said "I don't have a real boyfriend so I'm just playing around with sugar daddies," I could've forgiven that — but finding out she actually had a real one? Unforgivable 😡
She casually registered a marriage with some Vietnamese guy or whoever, no big deal to her.
Come on, that's basically just a sales manual. The "yes/no" stuff is straight out of cold-call sales training.
Fraud is a crime with obviously malicious intent — a suspended sentence for that is honestly unbelievable.
Background and Key Points
Riri-chan belongs to a specific Japanese online subculture: the “itadaki joshi” (いただき女子, roughly “gimme girl”), a term that spread on Japanese social media around 2022–2023 for women who cultivate multiple older male admirers on dating apps and social media, extracting cash, gifts, and living expenses through manufactured romantic or financial urgency. What made Riri-chan notorious beyond an ordinary “itadaki” case is scale and documentation: prosecutors tied her to tens of millions of yen from individual victims (one figure cited is 38 million yen from a single man), and she additionally monetized her own technique by selling an instructional “manual,” reportedly netting around 20 million yen, which at least one buyer then used to commit her own romance fraud. She was convicted and is now serving her sentence, and the reference to “13 years” reflects her own complaint about her prison term.
The thread’s actual disagreement isn’t over her guilt — nobody disputes that — but over how to read her post-conviction persona: is the apology letter and prison wish list genuine remorse and psychological breakdown, or another performance from someone who has spent her career reading what audiences want to see, timed for sympathy or donations. A secondary split concerns culpability for downstream harm: some see the manual as materially enabling a copycat crime, while others compare it to ordinary, legal sales-technique training.
What outsiders likely miss is how routinely Japanese fraud sentencing includes suspended terms even for calculated financial crimes, which is exactly why posters reacted with disbelief that the manual’s buyer avoided prison.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Sad News] Itadaki Girl Riri-chan Nears Her Breaking Point”.
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