Mayu Yoshida ordered 4.3 billion yen of Naruto and One Piece goods under fake names. She paid nothing and refused delivery. She was arrested Aug. 4.
A 32-year-old Tokyo woman was arrested Aug. 4 over more than 2,000 cancelled online orders placed with anime publisher Shueisha. The cancellations left Shueisha with about 7.5 million yen ($47,500) in shipping and handling costs, Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV News 24 reported. No payment was made on any of the orders.
Police identified the suspect as Mayu Yoshida. Investigators said that between 2024 and 2025 she ordered Naruto and One Piece merchandise worth roughly 4.3 billion yen, nearly ₹258 crore, using multiple fake identities and cash on delivery.
In many instances Yoshida refused the parcels at the door, while some orders were cancelled before dispatch, according to Sankei Shimbun. Shueisha reported the losses to Tokyo's Kanda Police Station in June 2025.
The loss ran to under two tenths of one percent of what she ordered. Because the merchandise came back or never left the warehouse, the bill was freight rather than inventory.
Yoshida admitted to the allegations and said stress drove the behaviour. Nippon TV News 24 reported she described the repeated shopping sessions as a way of handling the pressures of everyday life.
"I love anime in general, so placing these orders satisfied that desire," she told investigators.
Cash on delivery is the weak point. The seller ships first and collects later, so a buyer who never intended to pay leaves the retailer with outbound freight and return handling. Requiring prepayment removes the refusal option; identity verification closes the fake-account route.
Parcel fraud works the other way, too. In Tokyo the loss sat with the seller; in Delhi it sat with the buyer. Delhi Police arrested four people, including a Nigerian national, for running an interstate cyber fraud syndicate that used a foreign-parcel story to take ₹1.46 lakh from one man, the ANI news agency reported.
Police said the complaint reached the cyber cell of the South West district on March 31. Unknown people contacted the man over WhatsApp and phone calls, posing as residents of the United States. They built a personal relationship to win his confidence and then claimed that a parcel containing U.S. dollars and gold had been sent to India in his name.
To release the parcel, he was told to pay for a Money Declaration Certificate, flight ticket booking, customs clearance charges and release of the alleged seized gold, police said. He transferred the money through multiple UPI IDs and bank accounts. Police described the requests as pretexts.
Police recovered seven mobile phones used in the offence. The coordinated operations ran through Delhi and the southern states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
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