She therefore expressed her fear that banks may accidentally leak her photo to criminals, who could then take advantage of her by using the photo to fake identification cards for use in other crimes.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, a banker at a foreign bank, however, yesterday said the photo idea should at least "put more difficulties into the theives' operations."
"If there's difficulty in setting up a national fingerprint database, a snap-shot database isn't such a bad idea," she said.
The banker, however, added the photo plan will mainly prevent criminals with fake accounts from unscrupulously messing around with the accounts.
She, nevertheless, stressed more importance on the risk management system at ATMs than on the photo plan.
She said that ATMs that belong to her bank are equipped with specially-designed seals on the machines' card scanners. The seals' codes are renewed on a daily basis, so that if any illegal access to the system occurs, the bank will find out by examining the seal's color and daily code.
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