Jakarta – The Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimsus) Polda Metro Jaya handled 8 police reports (LP) for alleged cases of fraud like and social media (Medsos) subscriptions.
Officer of the Cyber Subdirectorate Unit of the Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation for Polda Metro Jaya, Ipda Satrio said that currently his party has investigated around four or five reports. He also said that the investigation process for this fraud case would take quite a long time.
“It is quite long because it is influenced by an analysis of the perpetrator’s movements in cyberspace. Usually the perpetrator orders the victim to transfer to a designated bank account,” said Ipda Satrio when met at the Diradja Hotel, Friday, (7/7).
To trace the ownership of the account, he continued, investigators need time to apply for a permit from the bank concerned. This step must be taken in the investigation process.
“When we met the owner of the bank account, we checked that indeed many of the accounts were sold by the owner or the name on the bank account,” he said.
He also said that the smallest amount of loss from reports submitted to Polda Metro Jaya was recorded at Rp3 million. While the largest is up to hundreds of millions of rupiah.
The loss figure was experienced by the victim individually, as well as the accumulation of group reports. “Incidentally, I don’t handle groups,” Ipda Satrio said.
He explained that the perpetrators of like and subscribe fraud were not a gang. Even though there are several people in one area who carry out this modus operandi. But they do not share the results.
In this case, one victim was the Menteng Village Infrastructure and Public Facilities Handling Officer (PPSU), Adithya Oktavianto. His Rp28 million disappeared after being trapped by the perpetrator’s offer.
Adithya’s initial intention was to increase his income to meet other daily needs.
“Plans were collected for school children to enter elementary school. Second, I wanted to buy my wife a used motorcycle, so far she has been picking it up with me,” he said, after reporting to Polda Metro Jaya, Thursday, (11/5) two months ago.
This father of two children said that initially he received messages from unknown people to follow Instagram social media accounts. He was lured by commissions ranging from Rp20,000 to Rp100,000 if he agreed to take part in this fraudulent scheme. Because he was interested, he followed the invitation and finally realized that he had been tricked. Bembo
