# Cashier allegedly using 'photographic memory' to steal credit card information

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**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/cashier-allegedly-using-photographic-memory-to-steal-credit-card-information/41709 "2019-09-11T00:30:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/user_avatar/forum.artofmemory.com/josh/32/21_2.png) [@Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Josh)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/cashier-allegedly-using-photographic-memory-to-steal-credit-card-information/41709/7 "2019-09-11T15:13:35Z")

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I would love for photographic memory to exist, but I feel like I have to remain wary of that term until I see really solid evidence. It seems like a test for “photographic memory” should work with complex patterns of random dots (“photographically”), not just with images that are related to a topic of unusually intense, lifelong focus. (buildings, numbers, music, [autobiographical events](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/an-article-about-highly-superior-autobiographical-memory/31375), etc.) Those kinds of memory abilities are extraordinary, but I think that more study is needed before coming to a firm conclusion about how they work. From what I’ve read, even full [eidetic memory](https://artofmemory.com/wiki/Eidetic_Memory) isn’t necessarily accurate, and as far as I know, no one has ever been able to pass that kind of “photographic” test.

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