Current location - Trademark Inquiry Complete Network - Overdue credit card - The maximum length of time you can go without paying off a credit card
The maximum length of time you can go without paying off a credit card

A maximum delay of 3 days on the final repayment date is allowed. If it exceeds 3 days, it is considered overdue;

Overdue payment will not only be subject to a late payment penalty of 5% of the minimum unpaid portion, but also a penalty interest on the full amount of the bill. (Daily interest is 0.05%, interest will be calculated on the day of consumption, and interest will be calculated monthly until the principal and interest are paid off) It will also produce a bad credit record in the Credit Information Center of the People's Bank of China, which will seriously affect the application for credit cards and bank loans within 5 years.

If you are overdue for more than three months or fail to repay more than two bank reminders, the bank will freeze your card and list you as a prohibited customer (blacklist), and will also sue you for your credit card. Fraud and malicious overdrafts are subject to court enforcement. If you refuse to repay after being sued and the amount you owe exceeds RMB 10,000, the court will impose a sentence based on the crime of credit card fraud in Article 196 of the Criminal Law!

Article 196 of the "Criminal Law" stipulates that anyone who commits credit card fraud under any of the following circumstances and the amount is relatively large shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than 20,000 yuan but not less than 200,000 yuan. A fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; if the amount is extremely huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years, and a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; if the amount is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years. Fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment, and a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, or confiscation of property:

(1) Using a forged credit card, or using a credit card fraudulently obtained with false identification;

(2) Using an expired credit card;

(3) Pretending to use another person’s credit card;

(4) Malicious overdraft.

A 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 still refuses to return the card after being called upon by the card-issuing bank. Malicious overdrafts are a major form of risk in the credit card business and are part of credit card fraud.