First published: 11th February 2015
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (Monetary Authority) has issued a warning about a fraudulent webpage "http://hkdse.hkma.org.hk/sluvu/index.htm" that imitates the official website of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC). The page was hosted on a website about diploma courses run by the Hong Kong Management Association (Management Association). The Management Association was established in 1960. As a non-profit-making professional organization, its mission is “to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of management in Hong Kong.” The Management Association webserver is apparently running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000, which is obsolete and unsupported software.
At the time of writing, the webpage had been removed. Anyone who used the fake page should contact HSBC at 2233 3000 and any local Police Station or the Commercial Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force at 2860 5012.