Japanese Man Uses Photographic Memory To Steal Credit Card Details Of Over 1,300 Customers

By
Dan Tan
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Some people just have that godsent gift over others.
Like the gift of music, the gift of food-whoring, the gift of charming pretty ladies, and the gift of photographic memory.
What would you do if you had a photographic memory?  Use it to score well for your exams? Ace your high-flying job?
How about using it to steal others’ credit card information at a mere glance?

The Ingenious Thief in a Fool’s Hat

34-year-old Yusuke Taniguchi, a part-time cashier at a mall in Koto City, stole the credit card details of 1,300 customers by pure photographic memory and used them to buy various items which he’d ship to himself.

Before I proceed, let us recap what details a credit card contains:

  • 16-digit card-specific number
  • Name
  • Expiry date
  • CV code

Fact: He used just the time the customer took to make the purchase at his counter to steal their information! Then jot them down into a notebook later, which the police uncovered.

Now, I cannot even remember my passport ID, let alone my credit card details. It takes me 10 minutes to make a carefully-calculated chess move.

Which makes me kinda wanna take my hat off to the guy (but put the correct one back on please – not this stoopid one).

Image: Giphy

How He Gave Himself Away

The heist – or shall we say, illegal purchases – he made was used to purchase various items which he would then pawn for money to pay his food and rent.

However, he gave the game away when he bought two shoulder bags worth $3,450 and delivered them to his apartment. Apparently his brain capacity was overwhelmed with memorizing the credit cards.

Get a better RAM, bro. Attach it to your backside. Then you won’t go wrong.

Which goes to show, having a computer memory does not equate to AI intelligence. Sometimes, AIs can be dumb too.

Here’s the video of his arrest:

Here’s a simplified summary of the South Korea martial law that even a 5-year-old would understand:

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