AFTER spending two nights with his “girlfriend,” whom he had met at a leisure club in Longgang District in April, a man found that all of his four credit cards had been overdrawn by the woman, whose name he didn’t even know, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

Five transactions were made on the man’s credit cards totaling 34,000 yuan (US$5,001). “Now she doesn’t pick up the phone or reply to my WeChat messages,” said the man, surnamed Pang.

According to Pang, he met the woman, identified only as Xu, early this year. They kept contact through WeChat. Pang and Xu dated for two days at a hotel April 23 and 24. “I only know her surname and that she is 26 years old,” said Pang, adding that he did not find anything abnormal during their date.

However, a few days later, Pang found that his credit cards had reached their credit limits. Pang checked with the bank and found five transactions were made over the two days they spent together. Pang has not been able to reach Xu since then.

Pang discovered that all of the money had been transferred to an Alipay account, but he had no clue how the transfers were done because he had never bound his credit cards with Alipay or WeChat payment.

However, Pang had bound all four of his credit cards to a smartphone app for making online payments. Usually, he would receive text messages from the banks informing him of transactions, but this time, he did not get any. The man suspected it was Xu who used his phone and deleted the text messages while he was sleeping at the hotel.

To make a transaction, the app requires either a gesture password or digit password, and Pang said that he never told the woman his passwords except for letting Xu play a game on his mobile phone once.

Longgang police are investigating. (Zhang Qian)