January 9, 2012
Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested one Vietnamese and three Malaysian men for allegedly using fake ATM cards to withdraw money from local banks. They are believed to be members of a transnational crime ring. The first arrest, of Co Kim Thach, a 39-year-old resident of District 5, was made on December 30, [...]
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December 19, 2011
Koay Keng Chen, a 22-year-old Malaysian, at a trial in Hanoi on Friday where he received a three-year jail term for fraud. A Malaysian man was sentenced to three years in jail at a trial in Hanoi for cheating a mobile phone shop out of VND35 million (US$1,665) with fraudulent credit cards, Vietnam News Agency [...]
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May 31, 2011
Hanoi police arrested a Malaysian suspected of using a fake credit card to buy a laptop and four iPhones at an electronic mart in Hanoi on Thursday. This is the second time this month that a Malaysian has been caught using fake credit cards. Choi Mingkian, who had rented a room in a hotel [...]
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March 12, 2011
Four people in Ho Chi Minh City will face charges of theft for hacking foreigners’ credit cards and stealing their money, the People’s Supreme Procuracy, Vietnam’s highest office of prosecutors, announced Monday (March 7).  All in their twenties, the four men stole information from hundreds of credit cards and then used them to buy air [...]
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January 31, 2010
Visitors look at rows of Chocolate Terracotta Warriors at a chocolate theme park in Beijing China’s online tourism market is booming as an increasingly wealthy middle class travels for pleasure and the use of credit cards and the Internet soars, analysts say. As millions of people pack their bags for Lunar New Year holidays, the [...]
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August 30, 2009
Hanoi plans $35 million housing project; Two sentenced to prison for Tet eve boat disaster; Over US$4 million for Vietnam’s administrative reform; Malaysians arrested on suspicion of fraud; Hanoi plans $35 million housing project The Hanoi Construction Department has announced plans to build 15,500 apartments, equivalent to 1.5 million square meters of housing, for [...]
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August 29, 2009
Police in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province on Thursday arrested two Malaysian men suspected of fraud. Pang Buan Seng, 23, and Tan Young Soon, 29, allegedly used forged passports to rent a room at the Petro House Hotel on Tuesday, and fake international credit cards to withdraw nearly US$10,000 in cash later that day.Suspicious [...]
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May 21, 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday gave a final approval to a landmark credit card bill that will eliminate sudden interest rate increases and excessive fees to protect millions of consumers. The 361-64 vote, following a 95-5 vote in the Senate on Tuesday, ensured that President Barack Obama could sign it into law by [...]
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April 27, 2009
Enviromental activist Mithra Cox (L) and her husband Martin Cubby play music near Sydney. The pair are two of the more than seven million Australian taxpayers who have received a one-off cheque from the government for up to A$900. Cash registers are ringing across Australia as more than seven million economically-stimulated consumers raise their wallets [...]
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February 27, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – The national air carrier has announced it will cut the prices of all airfares for domestic flights purchased online by 5% from March 1-7. Accordingly, passengers who book seats on domestic flights and pay online using the following five types of credit cards, Visa, MasterCard, JCB, Diner’s Club and American Express, on Vietnam [...]
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