First published: 03rd May 2013
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) warns that an e-mail purporting to be sent from China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited (CCBA) is fraudulent. The e-mail contains a link to a fraudulent website (http://users9.jabry.com/onlinesafewebhk/ccb/) that requests user's internet banking user name and password. The fraudulent website looks similar to the bank’s logon page. CCBA did not sent these e-mails to its customers and it has no connection with the fraudulent website. The fraudulent webpage is no longer available.
The Hong Kong Police are investigating, anyone who has provided personal information to the website, or has conducted any financial transactions through the website should contact CCBA at 2779 5533 and any local police station or the Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force at 2860 5012.
An HKMA spokesperson advised, "Members of the public are reminded not to access their Internet banking accounts through hyperlinks embedded in e-mails, Internet search engines or suspicious pop-up windows. Instead, they should access their Internet banking accounts by typing the website addresses at the address bar of the browser, or by bookmarking the genuine website and using that for access. If in doubt, they should contact their banks".