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Clerk Uses Photographic Memory to Steal Credit Card Info From 1,300 Customers

posted by janrinok on Monday September 09 2019, @08:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-not-let-go-of-your-card dept.

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Clerk uses photographic memory to steal credit card info from 1,300 customers

[....] In Japan, though, a store clerk has stolen credit card information the old fashioned way: Looking at and memorizing the details of over 1,300 customers, according to local news.

The 34-year-old clerk worked at a mall in Koto City, near Tokyo. Police allege he memorized the 16-digit credit card number, security code and expiry date of customers during the small period of time it takes to complete a purchase transaction. This is all according to a translation by SoraNews of reports from Sankei News and Hachima Kiko publications.

Police added that, after arresting the clerk, they found a notebook containing the credit card details of 1,300 victims, reports ANN News. The scammer, despite apparently having a Sherlock Holmes level of memorization ability, led police straight to him by using stolen credit card information to buy two bags valued at 270,000 yen (approximately $2,500) -- which he then had mailed to his own address.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @09:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 09 2019, @09:17PM (#891870)

    Not so much [wikipedia.org]:

    Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik; sometimes called photographic memory) is an ability to recall images from memory after only seeing it once, with high precision for a brief time after exposure,[1] without using a mnemonic device.[2] Although the terms eidetic memory and photographic memory are popularly used interchangeably,[1] they are also distinguished, with eidetic memory referring to the ability to view memories like photographs for a few minutes,[3] and photographic memory referring to the ability to recall pages of text or numbers, or similar, in great detail.[4][5] When the concepts are distinguished, eidetic memory is reported to occur in a small number of children and as something generally not found in adults,[2][6] while true photographic memory has never been demonstrated to exist[emphasis added]