BCA blocks transaction in Australia, Canada
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 01/22/2010 6:15 PM
Bank Central Asia (BCA) has blocked transactions in Australia and Canada following a bank scam where Indonesian
customers' lost money from personal accounts.
"We detect suspicious withdrawals in the Canadian city
of Toronto,
where it appears someone withdrew money from an Indonesian customers’ bank
account, so we have blocked every transaction in Canadian dollars," BCA
deputy director Jahja Setiaatmadja told a press conference Friday.
In Australia,
BCA had also detected a similar type of withdrawal, he added.
The scam, which reportedly affected BCA customers in
Australia, Canada and the Indonesian province of Bali, had stolen a total of Rp
5 billion (US$550,000) from customers' accounts.
