After a relative's 70-year-old mother changed her social security card, something "weird" happened.
A few days after the new card, she received a text message showing that she had spent 2 yuan and her balance had been reduced accordingly.
The old mother didn't care at first. As a result, I received another text message the next morning, showing that I had spent another 2 yuan, and in the afternoon, I received another text message and spent another 2 yuan. Now the old mother was anxious, thinking that she had just changed her new card, and she didn't go to the pharmacy to buy medicine, but she just put her social security card in her shoulder bag and took the bus a few times, why did she keep reducing the balance?
The old mother was terrified and suspected that there was a thief around her while riding the bus, and used high-tech means to steal her bank card.
But how can you only swipe 2 yuan each time you swipe your bank card?
The more she thought about it, the more scared she became, so she quickly called her daughter, who worked in a bank, to tell her worries.
The daughter received the call and rushed to her mother's house immediately after work. The daughter flipped through the old mother's text messages and didn't see what was going on after reading it for a long time.
Although my daughter has worked in a bank for many years, she also finds this thing very strange. In order to unravel the reason behind this "weird" incident, the daughter took the old mother to the card replacement shop.
When I asked, I learned that in addition to seeing a doctor and buying medicine, the social security card also has a variety of functions such as deposit and withdrawal, transfer, consumption, and pension.
The third-generation social security card has added some new functions, such as the password-free payment function of small-amount flash pass, and the function of paying for transportation cards.
The picture below is a sample card for the three generations of social security cards.
The so-called "password-free payment function for small-amount quickpass" means that after the social security card is activated for this function, it is password-free quickpass within 1,000 yuan.
At present, the third-generation social security card that has been replaced has basically automatically opened this function.
"Transportation payment function" refers to the third-generation social security card, which can also be as convenient as an ordinary bus card to take buses and other means of transportation.
At the same time, the third-generation social security card has been further upgraded to support contactless card reading, that is, you don't need to swipe the card directly, as long as the social security card is close to the card reader for a certain distance, you can read the information.
When the old mother took the bus, she did not take out the elderly bus card and swipe the card, but took the bag and swiped it directly close to the card reader. Even though the senior bus was stuck in the outermost layer of the bag, the social security card inside was swiped.
It turned out that the bus card reader "stole" the money from the old mother's social security card.
At the suggestion of her daughter, the old mother canceled the convenient and fast "password-free payment" function on the social security card.
"Password-free payment" is indeed convenient and fast, but for older groups, it is better not to open it.
There is also the "quick payment" function of Taobao card, which is also recommended to be canceled if it is opened by older people.
A friend of mine, who has been playing with computers for decades and playing with smartphones, is now almost 70 years old. A few years ago, he set up Taobao password-free payment of up to 2,000 yuan.
Recently, when he bought something worth thousands of yuan on Taobao, the page prompted him that the payment was unsuccessful, and then he received a payment URL. As soon as I wanted to go in, I suddenly remembered that something was wrong, so I became vigilant and didn't click on it.
Fortunately, I didn't click on it, but once I clicked on it, I would lose more than 1,000 yuan! Because it was the payment URL sent by the scammer.
The following figure shows the Taobao password-free payment function setting page.
While the "password-free payment" function brings convenience to users, it also gives criminals an opportunity to commit crimes such as theft.
It is best for older people not to open those "password-free payment" functions, and it is recommended to cancel those that have been opened before.
When people get old, some functions become "dangerous functions" if they don't play well.