It is safe and will not leak personal information. As long as a mobile POS machine has a third-party payment license with acquiring business, then it is a safe mobile POS machine.
Lingningbao POS machine is a smart payment terminal launched by Huifu. It is a company with third-party payment technology as its core and is one of the first companies in the country with offline acquiring qualifications.
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Nowadays, bank POS card swiping machines are installed in many places. But now, there are illegal online payment companies that have taken advantage of this convenient transaction method. A few days ago, the Hunnan Branch of the Shenyang Municipal Public Security Bureau detected a case of using POS machines to implement contracts and successfully recovered economic losses of 2.03 million yuan for the 178 merchants involved.
“Comrade police, the money in our POS machine has been defrauded, you must help us!” In June 2017, more than 20 merchants including Hou from a shopping mall in Shenyang went to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to investigate. The Economic Investigation Brigade of the Southern Branch reported the case: After signing a POS machine fund settlement business contract with a certain technology company, it recently discovered that many funds consumed had not yet arrived in the account, and the person in charge of the company could not be found afterwards.
After investigation, the Hunnan police officers handling the case found that the case involved more than a hundred merchants and the amount involved amounted to millions of yuan. The police set up a task force and found out that Yang, the legal representative and actual operator of a technology company in Hunnan District, used the opportunity to handle POS machines for merchants to defraud 178 merchants of 2.03 million yuan in funds and then transferred them to private accounts. constitutes a contract crime.
During the investigation, the police learned that Yang had transferred the 2.03 million yuan of funds to the account of a Shanghai payment network service company in an attempt to "protect" the defrauded person in an attempt to evade the attack. funds.
“In order to appease the people who were defrauded, we added the victimized merchants to the WeChat group to promptly inform them of the investigation of the case, and at the same time asked the defrauded merchants to provide clues to solve the case in the WeChat group,” Deputy Director of the Economic Investigation Brigade of Hunnan Branch Captain Xu Xiaodong said that within a short period of time, the merchant reported all kinds of information about the criminal suspect Yang to the police, buying time for the police to further verify and solve the case.
The Hunnan Branch then contacted the company in Shanghai, and through legal propaganda, policy guidance and repeated communication, through a powerful offensive combining legal and legal principles, a payment network service company in Shanghai agreed to return the defrauded merchants. .
As of July 15, all 178 merchants involved in the scam had received an advance payment of 2.03 million yuan from a payment network service company in Shanghai. At present, the criminal suspect Yang has absconded and has been designated as an online fugitive by the public security organs. The case is under further investigation.
According to statistics, in recent years, there have been many incidents in the Shenyang area where merchants at POS machines failed to pay for settlement of purchases by swiping their cards. The merchants' losses ranged from a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. The police reminded that merchants must directly sign a bank card acceptance agreement with a legally qualified bank card acquirer, and shall not engage in illegal activities such as credit card cash out or assist cardholders in cash out;
Applicants must apply through legitimate channels and install POS machines, and do not purchase POS machines from unknown or suspicious channels; after financial risk events such as credit card settlement funds not being accounted for, merchants must promptly report the case to the public security organs or to the public security organs to safeguard legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law.
Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia_Huifu Tianxia, ??People's Daily Online_Be wary of POS terminals