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This novel centers on the "It's me" telephone fraud - often focusing on the elderly - that has escalated in Japan lately. Typically, the caller identifies himself only by saying, "Hey, it's me", and goes on to declare in great distress that he's experienced a major accident or lost some money with which he was entrusted at work, etc., and needs funds wired to his profile immediately. Me personally's narrator is a nondescript young Tokyoite known as Hitoshi Nagano who, over a whim, calls for home a cell phone that a young man known as Daiki Hiyama accidentally put on Hitoshi's holder at McDonald's. Hitoshi uses the phone to call Daiki's mother, pretending he is Daiki, and convinces her to cable him 900,000 yen. Three days and nights later, Hitoshi results home from work to find Daiki's mother there in his apartment, and she seems to truly believe Hitoshi is her boy. Even more bizarre, Hitoshi discovers his own parents now treat him as a stranger; they, too, have a "me" living with them as Hitoshi. Baffled for what else to do, Hitoshi begins living as Daiki, and no one seems to bat an eyesight.
