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SMS used to defraud bank customers
www.chinanews.cn 2005-07-22 14:16:54
Chinanews, July 21 - A new style of fraud, using mobile phone SMS
messages to pretend to be bank reconciliation, to cheat people out of
their bank deposits, has surfaced in Zhejiang province and appears to be
spreading outward rapidly. The Public Security Agency of Zhejiang
Province has issued an urgent warning to remind people to raise their
wariness and prevent this type of crime from happening.
"Dear Customer, you have spent XXX Yuan on X month X date in Shanghai's
Trust-Mart, please confirm this amount with the ICBC bank. If there is
any error please call 021-51023052." If you receive such an SMS message
on your mobile phone, please do not believe its authenticity. Recently, a
38-year old Miss Li of Xinqiao Town, Wenzhou received such a message.
Confused, she immediately called the phone number in the SMS message to
explain that she did not make that expenditure in Shanghai and the other
party on the phone immediately gave her two fake phone numbers for the
Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau and the China Unionpay
Administration Bureau and told the victim that her account has been
targeted by a criminal enterprise and requested that she immediately
transfer the money in her account to a safe account. This way, Miss Li's
530,000 Yuan (65,300 USD) vanished.
Similar types of crimes have happened quite a few times. Police said that
this type of fraud was quite new but very harmful to society and could
spread to many other places. Police reminded people to raise their
wariness to prevent such types of crimes from happening.
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