Generally, credit reporting will be affected if a credit card is overdue for 3 days, which is the fourth day after the credit card is overdue. Three days overdue on a credit card is the grace period stipulated by the bank. During the grace period, as long as the cardholder actively contacts the bank's customer service, actively explains the situation, and applies for installment repayment, the credit report will not be affected. In the actual repayment operation of credit cards, there will be delays in repayment caused by non-subjective reasons. Due to various reasons, banks provide time-tolerant services. Suspected of credit card fraud by maliciously overdrafting a credit card. Overdue credit cards should be dealt with in a timely manner:
1. If the cardholder forgets to repay the card and discovers that it is overdue, he must repay the card as soon as possible, preferably in full. Call the bank's credit card center and declare that the debt is not malicious. If the overdue time is short, the bank may not count the bad records;
2. When the credit card is overdue and unable to repay due to unemployment, illness, etc., the cardholder should proactively contact the bank's credit card center before the repayment period. Explain your financial situation, declare that you do not owe money maliciously, and apply for deferred repayment or installment repayment;
3. Cardholders actively apply for deferred repayment, and banks will often agree to the extension. Banks and cardholders People agree on a mutually acceptable repayment plan. In this way, the bank will not record bad records, but you must repay on time after applying for an extension;
4. Credit card repayment information The central bank’s credit reporting system rolls over 24 months, and records of overdue credit card repayments will be included in the credit reporting It is stored in the system for two years. If you find that you have paid off the card overdue and then cancel the card directly, the information will not be rolled over, but will be saved for a long time. Therefore, after a cardholder has an overdue credit card, it is best not to cancel the credit card immediately. It is best to continue to use it for more than 2 years and maintain a good credit record thereafter.
Extended information: Consequences of overdue credit cards
1. Overdue credit card fees. The so-called late payment fees for credit cards refer to the fees that the cardholder should pay to the card-issuing bank according to regulations when the cardholder fails to repay before the due payment date (inclusive) or the repayment amount is less than the minimum repayment amount.
2. Overdue interest. After a user uses a credit card to overdraft, there is generally an interest-free repayment period ranging from more than 20 days to more than 50 days. If the cardholder repays overdue, all the expenses of the cardholder last month will no longer enjoy the bank's interest-free payment. treatment, and the recurring daily interest rate is as high as 0.5%, that is, the annual interest rate reaches 18%.
3. Bad credit record. Overdue credit card repayment records will enter the central bank's credit reporting system to generate bad credit records. my country's personal credit reporting records have been networked nationwide. As long as individual residents have handled loan business at banks, applied for credit cards, or provided guarantees for others, they will be credited. Then you can check your credit report at any domestic commercial bank.
4. Litigation costs. If the credit card is not repaid for more than three months, the bank will ask a lawyer to issue a lawyer's letter to the user and file a lawsuit in court. The litigation costs will be borne by the cardholder.
5. Criminal liability for malicious overdraft. According to Article 196 of my country's Criminal Law and relevant judicial interpretations, malicious overdraft refers to the cardholder's behavior of overdrafting beyond the prescribed limit or within the prescribed period for the purpose of illegal possession and failing to return it after being called by the card issuer. Those who maliciously engage in credit card fraud through overdraft will be held criminally responsible for credit card fraud and be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years or criminal detention, and a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.