Those Chinese And Their Fake Fingerprints

[Mulboyne]

The Yomiuri is singing a similar song:

Yomiuri: Police to arrest Chinese who altered fingerprints to evade checks
Tokyo police are poised to arrest a Chinese woman suspected of surgically altering her fingerprints to evade the biometric identification system at immigration control, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. It would not be the first such case--a South Korean woman was found in January to have illegally entered the country in April last year by using special tape on her fingers to obscure her fingerprints and fool the biometric system. The revelation came after the woman, who was detained by immigration authorities but not criminally charged, had been deported to South Korea. Since that incident, immigration authorities have been taking preventive measures such as improving the accuracy of fingerprint scanners at immigration control. However, as the Chinese woman entered the country before the discovery of the South Korean woman's case, immigration authorities likely will need to check if other people have altered their fingerprints to facilitate illegal entry. All foreigners are required to have their fingerprints scanned at immigration control upon entering the country. The Chinese woman's case would be the first arrest for illegal entry of a person who fooled the biometric system by surgically altering his or her fingerprints, immigration authorities said...more...

Also continued in the next post.

[Mulboyne]

(Continued)

According to investigative sources, the woman, Lin Rong, 27, is suspected to have entered the country via the scam in violation of the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law. Lin was arrested last month in a separate case on suspicion of making a false entry in a document involving a bogus marriage. The Chinese woman reportedly obtained a visa for marrying a 59-year-old Japanese man. She is believed to have altered her fingerprints by having surgery on the skin of her fingers in China before coming to Japan. Lin then allegedly used a fake passport to enter Japan, slipping through the biometric system at Kansai Airport's immigration control in December last year.

When the Metropolitan Police Department was investigating a bogus marriage case involving Chinese people in November, they learned that Lin, who was supposed to have been married to the Japanese man, who works as a cleaner, was actually living with a 26-year-old Chinese man. The police arrested Lin on suspicion of making a false entry in a marriage registration and submitting it to authorities. During the subsequent investigation, the MPD learned Lin had been deported to China in March 2007 for working as a hostess at a bar in Akasaka, Tokyo, after her visa had expired. The MPD also found unnatural scars on both Lin's forefingers that divided the patterns of her fingerprints, prompting the MPD to examine her immigration control history, according to the sources. The MPD then found that Lin's fingerprints did not match those obtained at the time of her deportation by the biometric system at immigration control, and that immigration authorities subsequently had failed to note Lin's deportation. According to investigative sources, Lin denied that she underwent surgery on her fingers.

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Similar surgeries rife in China?

This year, there have been many cases at Narita Airport's immigration control in which Chinese people were refused entry because they had altered their fingerprints by cutting off part of the prints or scraping the skin on their fingers. As some of these Chinese nationals told investigators they had surgery on their fingers in China, police suspect many foreigners have illegally entered the country by surgically altering their fingerprints.

Following the revelation of the case of the South Korean woman who had been deported once from Japan slipping through the biometric system by putting special tape on her fingers in April last year, authorities enhanced immigration control at major airports across the nation in January. Immigration officers are now required to look at foreigners' fingerprints if the fingerprint scanner shows an abnormality due to blurred fingerprints or other reasons.

From March, immigration officers began to examine scanned fingerprints on adjacent computer screens, and to question foreigners if they detected anything suspicious. Such investigations were not conducted previously because they are time-consuming and for other reasons. Therefore, some officials of immigration authorities are concerned that a large number of foreigners might have illegally entered the country even after the November 2007 introduction of the biometric system.

[alicia454]

I wonder if foreigner amputees can visit Japan:

A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5824DP20090903

What would happen with this man at immigration at Narita airport?

What about visitors that accidentally injure the skin around their fingerprints? Does one need medical documentation to prove that it wasn't done on purpose? Would Japanese immigration officials accept toe-prints?

[wuchan]

I wonder if foreigner amputees can visit Japan:


What would happen with this man at immigration at Narita airport?

What about visitors that accidentally injure the skin around their fingerprints? Does one need medical documentation to prove that it wasn't done on purpose? Would Japanese immigration officials accept toe-prints?

you are pretty dumb. I fish hooked my index finger after my first fingerprinting at narita and the next time I was let in without question even tho my prints did not match.

[alicia454]

you are pretty dumb. I fish hooked my index finger after my first fingerprinting at narita and the next time I was let in without question even tho my prints did not match.

At least I am not dumb enough to notice that they fingerprint both index fingers (your left & your right) at the same time! They take your picture too!

You clearly had a scar on on one finger, but your other finger should have matched fine. Even with the scarred finger, the remaining parts of the fingerprint that were unscarred should have matched as well.

Keep in mind that with biometric data acquisition, there are always variations between samples. No one can place their finger at the exact same angle and exact same pressure as before, not to mention greasiness and other external factors. Typically a series of waypoints and/or curves are isolated from the imaging and matches between samples use some of score on the variation between these. So unless most of entire fingerprint is scarred over, your scarred fingerprint word likely score best against your previous fingerprint, then it would with anyone else's fingerprint.

[Mike Oxlong]

From March, immigration officers began to examine scanned fingerprints on adjacent computer screens, and to question foreigners if they detected anything suspicious. Such investigations were not conducted previously because they are time-consuming and for other reasons. Therefore, some officials of immigration authorities are concerned that a large number of foreigners might have illegally entered the country even after the November 2007 introduction of the biometric system.

This removes one of the few justifications for implementing the system in the first place. By using it, they are likely less secure, and most definitely not more secure. Pity reality had to bite them in the ass!:hehe:

[Catoneinutica]

This removes one of the few justifications for implementing the system in the first place. By using it, they are likely less secure, and most definitely not more secure. Pity reality had to bite them in the ass!:hehe:

Accenture and the amakudari dolts who implemented the system haven't been asked to return any of their payoffs, as far as I know. No ass-biting there.

[alicia454]

[Cyka UchuuJin]

At least I am not dumb enough to notice that they fingerprint both index fingers (your left & your right) at the same time! They take your picture too!

no, but you certainly seem to think everyone else is pretty fucking dumb if you're pointing out that people have both a left and right index finger.

oh wait, i forgot about that entire race of people who have an extra hand sprouting out of the middle of their chest. bet that confuses the hell out j-immigration.

[Samurai_Jerk]

[Greji]

I suppose you have proof of this.



Is two-hundred thousand yet a lot of money?

Maybe to Ali-cia it is, but I know a couple of ginza joints where it might just be just opening the door....