Tuesday 3 December 2019

What Happens If A Company,

believes you have telephoned them to many times to complain?


well in Japan you get arrested! Akitoshi Okamoto, a 71-year-old man from Kasukabe City, allegedly called the toll-free number of Japanese telecom giant KDDI, to complain about his phone not being able to pick up radio broadcasts, and according to Japanese media sources, Okamoto at times called the KDDI support number just to ask that representatives of the company “come and apologize for violating our contract and for unfair business practices” Akitoshi Okamoto was arrested last month and is currently under investigation, He has been charged with obstruction of business, a Japanese crime generally defined as interfering with someone’s ability to do regular business, the corporation had been reluctant to press charges until last week, when the frequency of complaints became too much to bear, how frequent? I hear you ask, how about 24,000 times over the last two years, in the month of October alone, Akitoshi Okamoto, is alleged to have called the toll-free number of Japanese telecom giant KDDI 411 times in a single week, over the last two years, KDDI registered around 24,000 calls from Okamoto, to save you doing the mathematics, works out to an average of 33 phone calls a day, so there you have it, complain too much and you will be arrested.


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