Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Read this recent article (doh!): CHIBA - Police on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old housewife for buying 65 one-day passports for Tokyo Disneyland with a credit card she found in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture. Kyoko Kuroda was arrested for allegedly using the lost credit card at Tokyo Disneyland’s ticket counter to buy the passports worth about 350,000 yen on Sept 15. According to police, Kuroda found the credit card inside Tokyo Disneyland while she was there with her 8-year-old son. Kuroda bought 65 passes around 2:30 p.m. and tried to buy more around 4:55 p.m. but the credit card company reported the fraud use to Disneyland. Kuroda tried to flee into the theme park but was soon caught by Disneyland staff. Kuroda denied the allegations at first but finally confessed, saying, "I wanted to exchange the passes for money to pay back a housing loan."
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne I don't want to laugh at this but really.. of all ways to think about making money? Hopefully the rightful owner of their card gets all the money back..thats a debt nobody would want to pay off!
Originally Posted By MagicalNezumi Laugh all you want EmmaJayne. I picked this up from a "strange-but-true" type column. Hehehe. -- MagicalNezumi
Originally Posted By Malin Would buying 65 Annual Passes not sound a bit strange to the CastMember selling them. I also hought if you wanted to buy an Annual Passport you needed to be present at the time. Sounds like a crazy story for sure, and it goes to show you how stupid some people can be!
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Would buying 65 Annual Passes not sound a bit strange to the CastMember selling them. I also hought if you wanted to buy an Annual Passport you needed to be present at the time. >>> Read the OP again - they were one-day passports, not annual passports.
Originally Posted By TDR_Fan Even still, it would seem rather odd that a single person would buy 65 one-day passports (non-dated I assume).
Originally Posted By barboy ///Even still, it would seem rather odd that a single person would buy 65 one-day passports (non-dated I assume)./// ---odd(actually, extremely odd) but still possible that such a transaction could be bona fide nonetheless: what if she were buying for an entire wing in her office? Or what if she were looking to give them away as gifts for some occasion or raffle--- yep very uncommon, but possible. If I were the cast member at the booth I would have scrutinzed her ID and very likely asked for supervisory ratification.
Originally Posted By barboy ///Hopefully the rightful owner of their card gets all the money back..thats a debt nobody would want to pay off!/// Every credit card company I have worked with holds the cardholder harmless from fraudulent charges.
Originally Posted By Malin *** what if she were buying for an entire wing in her office? Or what if she were looking to give them away as gifts for some occasion or raffle--- yep very uncommon, but possible. *** Does TDR not have an office that deals with group ticket sales anyway. Sounds like the CastMember like you say should of realised this was a bit odd and done a bit more.
