CCB Helps the Police Hunt Down the Short-Message Racketeers

 

Recently, some badmen sailed under false colors to pretend China Construction Bank (CCB) to deceive money via using the cell phone to send the short message of consumption sum to cardholders. This attracted great attention from CCB, cardholders and the Police. The reporter was informed from CCB that in order to prevent clients from being deceived, CCB has already done all measures to control the impact as follows: the alert message has been delivered at all branches, ATMs and the call center 95533 to all customers to keep watch; monitoring measures and strengthened management have been carried out in terms of personal account transfer; and fast response mechanism has been established to prevent it.

On Oct. 8, CCB Jiangxi Branch discovered something wrong, then froze a deceived customer’s account with more than RMB 60,000, and finally helped the Police of Nanchang City hunt down 11 racketeers. It is introduced that after CCB Nanchang Branch found a clue: some badmen were defrauding cardholders of money by sending short messages to them during the Golden Week (the first week of October for vacation), staff of CCB Nanchang Branch at once took an investigation over all accounts with problem and at the same time, report to the Police of Nanchang City to help them gain all information related. When policemen were taking the video cassette recorder at the CCB Erwei Lu sub-branch, they found that a man conducting business over the counter was similar to the appearance of the suspect. Policemen immediately took action to exam this suspect’s identification card and confirmed that his identification card was a false one. Then, the Police detained this suspect and found that he held 4 different false ID cards, several deposit books and bank cards.

This suspect confessed his racketeering activities after the examination of the Police. And according to his confession, the Police of Nanchang City captured 3 suspects on the same day, Oct. 8, and another 8 suspects on the next day, Oct. 9, including a racketeer from Taiwan.