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A spokesperson for Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, which handed 900 automatic telephone call recording devices in 2016 and 2017 to elderly people as part of measures to combat telephone fraud. When a call is received, the device prevents the phone from ringing until after an automatic message saying the call is being recorded is played.
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There haven't been reports (of fraud) from the elderly households to which the devices were provided. The results are clear.
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zurcronium
I want one.
Strangerland
The results may be clear, but that cannot be determined from this comment. Was there a control group? How do they know that the elderly people to whom they gave this service were the type to be victims of the crime in the first place? It would be nice to get some details of the test and results.
David Varnes
Without knowing what the rate of phishing and ore-ore calls in general, this isn't a valid statement or test. Nine hundred homes, but what if the rate is roughly one in a thousand? As Strangerland points out, what if the rate is low in Tokyo, but high in the inaka areas?
The only clear results are that the 900 people didn't get any. Without anything to compare it to, this is just a PR statement.
Nippori Nick
2 years plus with 900 devices and no frauds is good enough an indicator for me to prove it works.
If a baseball player went up to bat 900 times over 2 years and did not get a hit that would be a valid test of his skills.
kohakuebisu
If this stops the "we're calling on behalf of NTT to offer you cheaper Internet" calls, I want one.