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Xidian "credit card gate" scandal

Wuhan Evening PostDecember 24, 2008 On December 8, a post, supposedly written by a student of Xi'an's Xidian University appeared on a forum website, saying that his identity was used to open a credit card account without his knowledge. The author... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Dec 24 2008

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