Suspension of cooperation with smartphone payment service Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Gifu September 16 23:43
Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, which has its head office in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, has been working with all affiliated smartphone payment services in response to the confirmation of fraudulent withdrawals from Japan Post Bank accounts, even for smartphone payment services other than "docomo accounts." Announced that the cooperation will be suspended.
With regard to smartphone payment services, there have been a series of damages caused by illegal withdrawals of deposits from Japan Post Bank accounts through services other than NTT DoCoMo's "DoCoMo account."
In response to this, Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank announced that it will suspend the procedure for new registration and charging to link with a bank account for four payment services such as "LINE Pay" and "Rakuten Edy" from midnight on the 17th. did.
At Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, it has been confirmed that nine cases, totaling about 1.8 million yen, were illegally withdrawn by 7:00 pm on the 16th through the "docomo account" that has already stopped cooperation.
With this measure, it will not be possible to charge for all affiliated services, but it is said that the restart time is "undecided" until security measures can be strengthened.
Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank commented, "We apologize for any inconvenience and concern to our customers, but we appreciate your understanding."