34-year-old Yusuke Taniguchi, who worked as a cashier in a Tokyo supermarket, was detained by the police on Thursday last week and accused of stealing someone else's bank card details and attempting to steal money from them. The attacker managed to find out the numbers and other information of more than 1,300 cards. At the same time, Taniguchi did not use any technique.
The only "device" that the kidnapper used was his own brain - the attacker looked at the card and in a matter of seconds managed to remember all its details. Then he copied them into a notebook - the police found him during the arrest.
Taniguchi was caught buying several bags worth $ 2,600 in an online store, for which he tried to pay with money from someone else's card. The police intercepted his warrant and delivered the purchase to him in order to take it red-handed. Now it is unclear whether this was the first theft, or the feats of the cashier are more numerous.
Very little is known about the kidnapper himself, almost only that he worked part-time in the store. It is also not known whether he has already been formally charged. According to CNN, Japanese law gives the police 20 days to do this.
In the opinion of modern psychologists, “photographic” memory, which makes it possible to remember forever a picture exactly corresponding to reality, is impossible in humans. Most likely, in the case of Taniguchi, we are talking about eidetic memory, which allows for a while to remember a view close to real, including small details, such as the location of leaves on a tree or a sequence of numbers in a number. Eidetic memory, if desired and with some effort, can be developed by training, like any other skill.
Sergey Sysoev