Two women from South Korea have been arrested on suspicion of having tricked Japan's biometric immigration screening systems using tape bearing other people's fingerprints.

"The women slipped past the immigration process at Tokyo's Haneda airport in May and October 2008, according to The Japan Times," writes The Register's Austin Modine. "The two had reportedly laid low as nightclub hostesses, but were spotted after both received deportation orders in 2008 for overstaying their visas and had their fingerprints taken again."

"That tape on an index finger can bypass the system first came to light back in early 2009 when another South Korean woman slipped past immigration using the trick," Modine writes.

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