Reflections on Two Recent Major Fraud Incidents
The embezzlement of a large amount of money from baseball player Shohei Ohtani’s account by former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, and the theft of a gold tea bowl worth over ten million yen from Nihonbashi Takashimaya, were both big surprises from a “that can’t happen!” perspective. In both cases, I feel that using vein authentication could have prevented these incidents, and although it sounds like a promotion for Mofiria, I would like to comment. In case 1, ID and password can be logged in by anyone if they are leaked, but vein authentication makes impersonation impossible. It is also nearly impossible to create a fake, so Mizuhara would not have been
