This is a scam!The Financial Supervisory Commission reminds the financial industry not to send text messages with hyperlinks for transactions

2023-09-19 10:28:28

“This is fake!” Domestic financial fraud is rampant. Tong Zhengzhang, deputy director of the Banking Bureau, said today (19th) that the Financial Supervisory Commission has ordered financial institutions not to send text messages with hyperlinks to transaction information. If the public receives relevant text messages Asking customers to click on a link in a text message and enter their account number, password, text message verification code and other information is a scam.

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This is a scam! The Financial Supervisory Commission reminds the financial industry not to send hyperlinks in text messages.File photo: Central News Agency

Tong Zhengzheng (19) once again appealed to the public that financial institutions will not send text messages asking customers to click on the links in the text messages and enter information such as account numbers, passwords, and text message authentication codes. The public is requested to go to the official website or online of the financial institution. Please do not enter the above sensitive information on any website other than the bank or mobile banking APP.

Tong Zhengzhang said that text messages sent by banks can have links to product promotions, which can only be linked to the official website, but cannot be linked to trading accounts, and require an IC or password.

As for the number of “warning households” related to capitation households, which exceeded 100,000 in the second quarter, and increased by more than 8,000 households in the second quarter, Tong Zhengzhang said that “the books are getting more expensive as they are sold”, which has violated the criminal law and “the crime of buying books” , Selling books is a crime.” He also called for not selling accounts to others to use as head accounts.

In particular, the Money Laundering Prevention Act was revised and promulgated on June 14, and Articles 15-1 and 15-2 were added to stipulate that if you collect other people’s bank accounts without justifiable reasons, or hand over or provide your own or other people’s bank accounts, Giving it to others to use will constitute the crime of “buying a book or selling a book”.

The Banking Bureau also explained that according to 15-1 “book buying crime”, the maximum sentence is 5 years in prison and the maximum fine is 30 million; if it is the “book selling crime”, that is, if the account is sold to others, the relevant punishment is a warning. Administration, and the other is if there is a fixed term or acceptance of consideration, and more than 3 accounts are delivered, if the offense is committed again within 5 years, the maximum sentence will be 3 years in prison, and a concurrent fine of criminal detention, or a fine of not more than 1 million yuan. fine.

Yahoo Finance special correspondent Ye Yiru: 22 years of experience in mainstream financial media. From the Web1.0 bubble in 2000 to the Meta Yuanverse Web3.0, he has witnessed the rise and fall of Taiwan’s large and small enterprise groups and has experienced five international financial crises. We believe that finance is life and is everywhere. No matter how difficult financial knowledge is, we should explain it in a simple way. Everyone, young and old, should manage money. If you don’t manage money, money will not care about you.

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