To prevent the illegal use of an IC card even in an off-line processing for not performing circuit inquiry in a bank and a center by transmitting the ID number information of the IC card which is stolen or the like from the center and receiving an illegal ID number and checking the IC card on the side of an electronic purse terminal equipment.
When an owner of the IC card inserts two sheets of the IC cards to the electronic purse terminal equipment 13 and depresses a remittance button in an input part 17, ID information 1 and the ID information 2 stored inside the IC card 1 and the IC card 2 are read out and supplied through connection parts 6, 12, 14 and 15 to an arithmetic processing part 18. In the arithmetic processing part 18, illegal ID number information registered in an illegal ID number storage part 20 inside the electronic purse terminal equipment 13 is read, whether or not the ID information 1 and the ID information 2 are registered as the illegal ID number information is checked, and when it is discriminated that it is the illegally used IC card, the IC card is changed to a state incapable of taking out electronic money and forcedly ejected.
ITO SHIGEYUKI
TAKAMI MINORU
INOUE MASAYUKI
HITACHI VIDEO IND INF SYST INC
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