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2008

December 16, 2008

Japanese Bankers Association

Results of the Survey on Illicit Deposit Withdrawals Released

JBA surveyed its members and associate members (191 banks) on “Withdrawals using counterfeit cash cards,” “Illegal withdrawals using Internet banking” and other related topics and released the findings on December 16.

An overview of the findings is described in the tables below.

Table 1: Illicit Deposit Withdrawals and Compensated Cases (July – September 2008)
	Illicit Deposit Withdrawals		Number of Compensated Cases, etc.
	Cases	Amount (million yen)	Cases for which Processing was Finalized	Of which, Compensated Cases	Compensation Rates
Stolen Passbooks	18	23	3	2	66.7%
Counterfeit Cash Cards	44	47	27	27	100%
Stolen Cash Cards	589	257	236	165	69.9%
Internet Banking	2	15	0	0	-

Table 2-1: Account Suspensions and Cancellations by Banks Due to Illegal Use (July – September 2008)
(unit: cases)
Suspended	Cancelled	Total
13,230	9,865 (9,425)	13,670

Note: The figures in parentheses are the number of cancelled accounts which had previously been suspended (including the abovementioned period).

Table 2-2: Number and Amount of Suspended or Cancelled Accounts that Remain Unsolved
(as of the end of September 2008)
	Number of Accounts	Amount(million yen)
Number and amount of accounts separately managed by banks after suspension or cancellation	206,753	10,629
Amount of accounts covered by the Law on Remedies for Remittance Solicitation Fraud	139,532	7,112
Accounts with amounts of less than 1,000 yen	(83,101)	(38)

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