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But now he knows, and knowing is half the battle<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n We all have certain gaps in our knowledge<\/a> that are widely known to others. They say even Einstein couldn\u2019t drive a car because he found it too complicated, though in fairness, cars were a lot more complicated when he was growing up than they are now, what with the hand cranks to start the engines and all.<\/p>\n Anyway, the point is everyone has their blind spots, and we can only hope they don\u2019t emerge in embarrassing or damaging situations\u2026 or both, as happened to one man recently in the city of Otsu, Shiga Prefecture<\/strong>. According to the Shiga Prefectural Police, on 5 December, a 53-year-old office worker received phone calls and video calls over the popular Japanese messaging app Line from men claiming to work for a major telecom company and a man posing as an officer from the Hyogo Prefectural Police.<\/p>\n The victim was told that 40 million yen was deposited and then withdrawn from a bank account in his name, implicating him in a potential crime. They then told him they needed to confirm the serial numbers on the banknotes in his account to know for sure. To do this, he would have to transfer the money from his bank account to theirs, so they could examine his bills and then transfer them back.<\/strong><\/p>\n Now, it\u2019s possible these con artists were remarkably smooth talkers, and the shock of being confronted by \u201cthe police,\u201d among other daily stresses of being an office worker, frazzled him enough that he momentarily forgot that bank transfers don\u2019t actually involve sending literal cash from one physical location to another. It\u2019s unlikely though, because he made three separate transfers over two days.<\/p>\n \u25bc He could have thought banks were full of little ceramic pigs with everyone\u2019s names on them.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t reported how he finally realized he\u2019d been had, but it was probably after none of the money he sent was being returned. He then contacted the real police, who are currently investigating it as a case of \u201cspecial fraud<\/a>\u201d (tokushu sagi<\/em>), referring to scams that randomly target people over the phone or online.<\/strong><\/p>\n The victim did get a fair bit of ribbing in online comments, but a lot of people also lamented that someone with a rather vague understanding of how banks work has more money than they do.<\/p>\n \u201cDid he really think he was sending physical bills?\u201d<\/em> Based on reports, this victim seems to be an average adult with an apparently well-paying job. He just seems to have thought everyone\u2019s money is kept in stacks of cash in a bunch of boxes, and perhaps when you use an ATM, a little robot whizzes over and takes out whatever you need.<\/p>\n But I say let those without ignorance in any area of knowledge throw the first stone. I, for one, don\u2019t fully understand how a refrigerator works. I\u2019m just lucky the only thing that makes me vulnerable to are prank calls.<\/p>\n Source: Kyoto Shimbun Digital<\/a>, Itai News<\/a><\/em> But now he knows, and knowing is half the battle. We all have certain gaps in our knowledge that are widely known to others. They say even Einstein couldn\u2019t drive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/12\/kuchikomi1387_TP_V4.jpg?w=640\")
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\n\u201cHow can someone with that level of intelligence have so much money?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cJust use the banknote teleporter.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIt must have been an inheritance.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThe only people who ever call my telephone are scammers pretending to be the power company.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWhen you transfer money, they roll up the bills really tight and send them through the wires.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cHow does this guy have more money than me?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cMaybe he has an old-fashioned bank that still uses pneumatic tubes.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThis fraud certainly is\u2026 special\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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