After spending the entire town's COVID-relief package at black market online casinos, a Japanese man received a hanging jail sentence. As a result of a clerical error, Sho Taguchi, 25, garnered 46.3 million yen (US$347,000) in COVID-19 relief cash in April 2022. During the peak and heights of the pandemic, the monies were meant for dissemination to 463 poor households in Abu, Yamaguchi Prefecture. When a town representative sent the bank a document containing the distribution list, tragedy happened. Regrettably, it merely included the total amount that had to be paid as well as the name of the very first individual listed, which was Taguchi. The bank misinterpreted it as a single transfer request. The error was quickly discovered, but Taguchi transferred the fund to three e-wallets and gambled them away.