Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers

Re:Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers by sdrothrock on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:22AM (#20361351)

One of the scarier things about this is that 7-Eleven isn't a convenience store here -- it's a retail chain owned by 7&i Holdings and closely associated with Seven Bank.

They also provide various things like health, car, and automobile insurance.

So you'd really expect a conglomerate of this size to have financial things down.

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Re:Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers by nihonde on Friday July 05, 2019 @07:27AM (#20361664)

As a Seven & I shareholder, things have been going poorly for a while now. It’s a shame because this company has a chance to be truly great. Luckily, I hedged on FamilyMart, too.

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Re:Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers by yamakadi on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:54AM (#20361505)

It’s possible they skipped any QA steps in an effort to launch before Family Mart — another convenience store that just launched its own payment app. I’m not sure QA would have helped though — their point card website would email you your plain text password until only a few years ago.

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Re:Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers by marak830 on Friday July 05, 2019 @09:14AM (#20362252)

I have their card(as it was free withdrawal but now it's restricted to certain hours).

Anyone know of any decent babks over here? One I can withdraw cash without paying at a lot of locations would be preferable -.-

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Re:Japan's 7-Eleven payment app gives easy access to scammers by andrekandre on Friday July 05, 2019 @06:47AM (#20361481)

from a japanese article i read, one of the things that caused this was executives pushing hard for a quick release of something to meet the competition... typical...

it’s getting insane here with all the stupid electronic payment services btw

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