(Prohibition of acts of illicitly requesting input of identification code)
Article 7 No person shall engage in any of the acts listed below by impersonating an access
administrator who has added an access control feature to a specified computer or otherwise
creating a false impression of him/her being the access administrator concerned. However, this
shall not apply if permission has been obtained from the access administrator concerned.
(ⅰ) An act of leaving the following false information accessible to the general public via
automatic public transmission carried out through connection to a telecommunications link
(the kind designed for on-demand activation and direct reception by the general public,
excluding broadcasting or cable broadcasting): information purporting to be the access
administrator concerned requesting an authorized user who has been allocated an
identification code associated with the access control feature concerned to input the
identification code concerned into a specified computer
(ⅱ) An act of transmitting the following false information to the authorized user concerned via
an email (an email as specified in Article 2, item (ⅰ), of the Act on Regulation of
Transmission of Specified Electric Mail (Act No. 26 of 2002): information purporting to be
the access administrator concerned requesting an authorized user who has been allocated an
identification code associated with the access control feature concerned to input the
identification code concerned into a specified computer