Osaka Prefecture bans seniors from talking on the phone while using ATMs

"...there are no penalties for failure to comply."

All we need to know.

...and set a daily limit of 100,000 yen on bank transfers made by seniors.

This can be quite problematic. My uncle often makes transfers way higher than this and it's a part of his business. He's over 80 but sharp as a tack.

As for Osaka doing this, it's no surprise since they've continually have had the highest crime rate in Japan.

Penalties for failing to comply no better than the fraudsters.

Japanese people need "guidance and supervision " in their elderly years.

Sounds condescending but it is reality.

I am sure exceptions for elderly "sharp as a tack " can be made...probably use a bank...deal with a human.

Gotta say, this fraud style does hook many people.

Japanese people need "guidance and supervision " in their elderly years.

Easier said than done. Those calls are coming in all the time, and the fraudster always tells the victim not to tell anyone else about it - because of shame or whatever, so the victim gets the idea that he/she is the only hope for getting the kid out of jail. Or whatever the fake problem is. I've had two calls over different phones in the last four months. (I intended to play along, but lost my temper and ended the show)

Japanese people need "guidance and supervision " in their elderly years.

I would argue, any elder people that has access to phones, ATMs and has family living elswhere needs constant guidance regarding "new" technology.

I suppose, when the time comes, it will happen to me too?... Though for the time being, I am already older than my parents when I had to explain them hoe connecting the modem to the PC will allow the PC to function as a voice machine, recieve and send Faxes and even made phone calls... and I can still explain how the thingy operates when you download the app thing to the phone thing and so on....

So maybe that time may come later to leter generations...but I am sure it will come the time when I too will need to be superviced and be guided

The same AI could conceivably be used to detect the users’ ages too.

So ATM just will reject transfer over limit because AI consider you are too old.

BS. And what age do they set for seniors? This is ridiculous.

Yesterday a car was driving around my neighborhood blasting out on loud speakers (Nihombashi, Tokyo)… don’t talk about money on the line app, don’t reply to “it is me” messages on apps etc…

I have barely told anyone or anywhere my phone numbers in 15 years… only my daughters schools and sports basically… pat 6 months bombarded with scammer calls in Japanese from unknown numbers of 800 numbers etc…

so I have fun and games with them speaking all kids of no send in different languages and wasting their time. But I pity the gullible who fall for it.

I witnessed my Mother, in horror.

Mum at an ATM whilst on a mobile, multitasking as the card was dispatched into the mouth of the cash dispenser, then counting the bills for any potential "blaggers" to form queue. In downtown Kochi

I really don't think a ban is going to make a difference?

Mother is not a pensioner.......ho hum

At first I thought this was to prevent them from taking longer than they do already. Cumulatively, I've lost hours of my life while waiting for old ladies to finish refinancing their mortgages (or whatever the hell they're doing) at Japanese ATMs.

Nine out of ten It is a "false pretense" of personal security.

Standing in an area that is the very definition of CCTV surveillance.

Until hoodie san silvers in undetected, to rob you off your hard erased, also your phone

I hope it works. Scammers are one of the lowest forms of humans. Preying on the elderly is particularly despicable.

 I dare anyone who disagrees to find a Japanese company’s website that doesn’t boast about how they’re adhering to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in one way or another.

Hmm. You'll want to visit the homepage of Niigata Kotsu, the largest bus company in Niigata. I'll leave you to do the searching.

And what age do they set for seniors?

That would be 65. Glaring omission.

set a daily limit of 100,000 yen on bank transfers

The limit they have on the rest of us is ridiculous enough!

I dare anyone who disagrees to find a Japanese company’s website that doesn’t boast

Perhaps you're thinking Niigata Kotsu doesn't count. Okay. Here's 100-en shop giant Daiso's mission statement per its website:

企業理念 – ミッション

自由な発想で、楽しさと豊かさを提供し続ける

なんだ！ダイソーにあったんだ、

こんなものまであったんだ！の感動の追求

Hardly UN Sustainable Development Goals-level stuff. And tucked away, the paltry bit there is.

Don't dare your 'dear' readers to disprove you.

This just like how wearing helmets and masks was banned when using ATMs. until they weren't.

Concealing your identity is not a crime, it's manners!

￥100 Yen Store Daiso Corporate Philosophy – Mission:

Continue to provide fun and abundance with free thinking

Pursue excitement with "Wow! I didn't know they had this at Daiso!"

I didn't know they had something like this!

""What makes fraud “special” is when the perpetrator never meets their victim face-to-face and instead communicates by telephone, Internet, or even postal mail,""

SMART MOVE but,

The answer to all this is to have vulnerable seniors show the Scum Scammers contact info to their local police officers or care givers or anyone whom they trust and ask for if it's okay??

Simple as that.

But GREED is so tempting that many seniors think they Finally hit the big one and so they keep it secret then they GET SCAMMED.

The answer to all this is to have vulnerable seniors show the Scum Scammers contact info to their local police officers or care givers or anyone whom they trust and ask for if it's okay??

Problem with this idea is that the person being scammed doesn't think they are being scammed, so they don't see a need to go to the police until it's too late