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Re:$12M stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japa... by dclowd9901 on Sunday May 22, 2016 @11:32AM (#11748932)
A 10% cut wouldn't be $100. It sounds like each person ran about 140(!) transactions, maxing the withdrawal on each one. That's 14 million yen per person or about 127,000 usd. 10% would be 12,700. Still possible that this happened but my guess is it was yakuza given the coordination and manpower.
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Re:$12M stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japa... by rincebrain on Monday May 23, 2016 @09:18AM (#11753619)
As someone upthread remarked, it actually seems improbable it was yakuza - way too visible, even with no provable connection, going to make their lives problematic for awhile.

Plus, we probably wouldn't be hearing about it a week after the fact, if it's part of a long-standing interaction like the yakuza, barring someone with loose lips.

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