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Actor Fumio Umezawa revealed on an information program aired October 6 that he suspects his own cellphone number has been leaked, confessing that unsolicited cash-on-delivery seafood had been showing up at his home. The remark came right on the heels of a string of reports about personal-data leaks at multiple companies, including Monogatari Corporation, Daiwa Securities, and Times Mobility. On a 5ch thread, the discussion ran from suspicion that “he probably ordered it himself and forgot” to tales of unsolicited-delivery scams and doubts about the cash-on-delivery system itself.
10/7 (Wed) 16:30
Actor Fumio Umezawa appeared as a commentator on the news program “News to” (produced by Yomiuri TV, airing on the Nippon TV network) on October 6, where he revealed his suspicion that his own personal information had been leaked.
That day’s broadcast covered a string of recent personal-data leaks at Japanese companies caused by unauthorized access. At Monogatari Corporation, which runs the yakiniku chain “Yakiniku King,” personal information belonging to more than 10 million users of its official app was leaked. Similar incidents were also reported at Daiwa Securities and at Times Mobility, operator of the car-sharing service “Times Car.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Oh, that angle…
Japanet Takata actually builds in protection for cases like that — when a senile grandpa or grandma orders something on their own and forgets, the family can report it and get a free cancellation and return. No wonder that company got so big.
You really think he's capable of placing an order?
Cash-on-delivery though, lol
I bet you'd still worry about the delivery date.
and make him confess
if it wasn't obtained legitimately, whoever reached out should be treated as a criminal breaking the law.
Click, click (shopping away online)
I had all kinds of stuff sent to me as neighbor harassment
I've told my whole family to refuse any cash-on-delivery deliveries
Well, if I did accept one and something happened, I could file a police report for fraud
but since I already know it's the neighbor doing it
there's also the risk they'd lash out and target my kids or wife out of spite
Hoping this doesn't turn into an actual incident.
Hoping you're not just the neighborhood's most hated person yourself.
That's a classic harassment tactic used by haters.
Hurry up and do something about it.
Ever since my parents bought souvenirs on a trip to Hokkaido, crab and salmon just started showing up at their door.
Can't wait
Now his actions get a stamp of legitimacy.
Death penalty, that's the way to go.
My info must be leaking from somewhere too.
Even so, I wouldn't want something like that in my house
and actually eating food from it is way too scary.
even though they're the ones doing the stealing~
You'll understand eventually
Crab and onigiri popping up out of nowhere as symbolic imagery in manga
Background and key points of this topic
Behind Umezawa’s remark lies a string of recently reported large-scale personal-data leaks at multiple companies, including Monogatari Corporation (operator of the yakiniku chain Yakiniku King), Daiwa Securities, and Times Mobility. As for the “unsolicited-delivery scam” (negative option) raised in the thread, Japan’s 2021 revision of the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions established that if an item you never ordered arrives unsolicited, the recipient has no obligation to pay for it and may dispose of it right away. That said, when such a delivery lands at a celebrity’s home, it can’t simply be filed away as an ordinary misdelivery or garden-variety scam — the possibility of harassment or illicit acquisition of personal data can’t be ruled out either. The thread included plenty of speculation whose truth couldn’t be confirmed, and anything that couldn’t be verified as fact has been left out of this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Fumio Umezawa: “I wonder if my phone number got leaked” — unordered seafood had been arriving at his home cash-on-delivery.”
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