Jakarta – The Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimsus) Polda Metro Jaya is currently investigating the alleged fraud case of the Jombingo e-commerce application which has cost tens of millions in losses. There are two police reports currently being received from victims with varying amounts of damages.
The Director of the Special Criminal Investigation Unit for Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Ade Safri Simanjuntak explained, Jombingo is a commission system buying and selling application that will operate in Indonesia around March 2022.
In the two cases handled, the fraudulent mode of the Jombingo application was to provide conditions for members to create a “group buy” by inviting other people to purchase goods.
Users are asked to send the application link to others. In this case, each member who joins the buy group will get a participant bonus which is recorded in each member’s account.
“After the member installs the application, proceed to top up the funds,” he told the media crew, Thursday, (20/7)
Apart from that, he continued, the Jombingo application also requires users to top up an amount of funds before starting a transaction to purchase goods on the application.
Meanwhile, the way for members to top up on the Jombingo application is by transferring money to an account according to the request on the j application
Jombingo
“Then after early 2023 the method of top up changed by scanning a barcode to a virtual account,” Kombes Pol Ade said.
Polda Metro Jaya is currently investigating two police reports (LP) regarding the Jombingo application. From the two police reports handled, the value of the loss reached IDR 42.1 million.
The first victim on behalf of Nurainu made a report to the Depok Metro Police, on June 26 2023. Meanwhile, another victim on behalf of Esa Nirwana made a report to the Ditreskrimsus Polda Metro Jaya.
In this regard, Kombes Pol Ade said that the LP at Polrestro Depok would be transferred to the Ditreskrimsus Polda Metro Jaya to be effective in handling the case.
“It is handled as one with the LP handled by investigators at Sub Directorate II Fismondev,” he said at the end of the statement. Bembo
