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First confirmed case of My Number fraud ~ Woman in her 70s loses millions of yen

Nat 2015-10-07 No Comments

According to an announcement made by the Consumer Affairs Agency on the 1th [XNUMX], a woman in her XNUMXs from the southern Kanto region was victimized by a phone call falsely claiming to be from the My Number system, and was forced to pay several million yen in cash by September. The method is as follows: A person claiming to be from a public consultation service gives the woman a fake My Number over the phone. Another man asks her to lend him his My Number...

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A heartless society and the number system: The dangers of name matching as seen in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables (2)

Nat 2011-01-01 No Comments

In the previous article, I discussed the possibility that the combination of the Internet and a universally used number (universal identifier) ​​system could result in a "everyone being Inspector Javert type," which could ultimately give rise to a "heartless society." In addition, this time I will discuss the combination of another characteristic of the Internet, "fragmentary information," and "universal identifiers."

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A heartless society and the number system: The dangers of name matching as seen in Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables"

Nat 2010-12-13 4 Comments

Humans are forgetful creatures. This leads to forgiveness. People act on this premise. But the Internet does not forget. People who do not forget, like Inspector Javert in "Les Misérables," are called heartless, and the damage they cause is called heartless. The careless introduction and use of identifiers, such as "universal immutable numbers," on the Internet will turn anyone on the Internet into a Javert. And what emerges is a "heartless society."

Further display A heartless society and the number system: The dangers of name matching as seen in Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables"