Japanese police have arrested an employee at a shopping mall after he tried to buy $ 2,600 bags online using stolen credit card information. Police found the man had stolen more than 1,300 cards.
Contrary to what we might think, the man, Yosuke Taniguchi, 34, does not rely on high-tech software to steal the cards' information through "hacking" or stealing passwords, but his method is much simpler and at the same time relies on a rare talent, which made His case attracts attention from various media outlets.
The Japanese man works in the Koto Mall as a seller, according to the site "Fun Engineering", and therefore sees daily hundreds of customers pay through their cards and it is enough to look at the card to save all the numbers.
At his home, the police found a notebook with numbers for 1,300 bank cards, as the man apparently wrote down the notebook on his return from work the numbers of cards he had in mind.
This phenomenon is called "photographic memory" and those who enjoy it can save what they see in the smallest details.
But the site "Fun Engineering" says that the designation of this phenomenon of photographic memory lack accuracy and better call it the ability to evoke images, and people in general complain about the inability to remember details accurately enough, but some people are born with this talent and their ability to remember what they see with great accuracy In the case of Taniguchi, he is able to remember the details of the cards he might see for a few moments.