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The government coalition in Japan is preparing a law to outlaw prepaid mobile phones. The reason given is that too many prepaid phones are used for crimes, e.g. the "ore ore" fraud.
The number of prepaid phones in Japan is very small, but it's not equally distributed. DoCoMo has almost no prepaid users, and has announced to abolish this service. Vodafone has about 10% prepaid users, and TuKa about 20% - so these will suffer when prepaid phones are outlawed.
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Posted: 2004-10-23 20:16:58
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whats ore ore fraud?
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Posted: 2004-10-23 20:30:00
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Do they really think that it will discrease crime? Guess the yakuzas will create an own operator company...
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Posted: 2004-10-23 20:32:19
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On 2004-10-23 20:30:00, Nature wrote:
whats ore ore fraud?
Rhymes like!!
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Posted: 2004-10-23 20:32:47
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yeah,
whats yakuza!!??
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Posted: 2004-10-23 21:45:01
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yakuzas=japanese gangstas!
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Posted: 2004-10-23 22:09:00
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And the logo of their operator could be a dragon tattoo and if u dont pay the monthly bill your little finger will be cut off, according the traditions.
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Posted: 2004-10-23 22:14:31
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Arghh good old Ore Ore.... a little explanation of it..
In "ore-ore sagi'' (``it's me, it's me'' fraud) cases, confidence men call up their victims pretending to be a distraught relative in need of quick cash and ask that money be placed immediately in a designated bank account.
In many cases, the reason given is that the money is needed to settle a dispute, such as a traffic accident, out of court.
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Posted: 2004-10-24 21:36:26
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Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!
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Posted: 2004-10-24 21:56:42
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It'd b more logical to b not outlawed but droped by the networks..if u ask me,no prepayed,then u have to get a subscription which is better anyway! Can they ban prepaid?It's cheaper to control prepay in some way than ban it.
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Posted: 2004-10-24 22:19:07
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