Service Tricks To Make SIMs Through Facebook, Bogor Police Secure The Perpetrators

Illustration of the arrest of a suspected criminal. (Unsplash)

The Bogor City Police have secured a fraudster for making driving license cards (SIM) and other original but fake documents (asphalts) with the initials YP (27).

The arrest of the results of public complaints to the hotline which went directly to the Bogor City Police Chief number 0878 100 57 which was deliberately distributed to the public.

"We have secured the perpetrator. This wrote on his Facebook account, then in his WA he offered asphalt documents (original but fake)," said Bogor City Police Chief Kombes Pol Bismo Teguh Prakoso when revealing the case in Bogor, Friday, May 5, confiscated by Antara.

The police chief said that the design posters distributed by the perpetrators contained offers for ID cards of Rp. 400 thousand, SIM C and SIM A Rp. 800 thousand, SIM B1 and SIM 2 Rp. 900 thousand, vaccine cards of Rp. 250 thousand, BPJS Rp. 350 thousand, family cards of Rp. 500 thousand, marriage cards of Rp. 800 thousand, birth certificates of Rp. 600 thousand, divorce certificates of Rp. 600 thousand, diplomas of SMP and SMA Rp. 600 thousand, diplomas of D-1, D-3 Rp. 900 thousand, and others.

"This is certainly very dangerous. Abuse of fake documents and so on, then doing it through the social media platform Facebook, then WA and so on, this is committing frauds," he said.

From reports from residents who entered the complaint number in the form of messages via WhatsApp, he said, they had felt cheated by YP perpetrators because the driver's license ordered was not received.

One of the scams offers to issue a SIM which in reality after the victim transfers Rp300 thousand, has not been sent.

YP mode committed SIM fraud for Rp600 thousand without a test by offering it to victims online on Facebook and WhatsApp. The victim's initials NN transferred Rp300 thousand, as a down payment and was promised when it was like a SIM design sent to NN, he had to pay the remaining Rp300 thousand. However, after being paid off, the driver's license has not been sent.

"We got this information, now this is from the complaint number 0878 100 100 57, the complaint number that I share with the public, and this is what the public told me in detail at that time," he said.

Bismo is grateful for the cooperation of all residents of the city of Bogor who do not hesitate to inform him directly, to the Bogor City Police so that there are no further victims.

"The perpetrators are charged with Article 378 of the Criminal Code. Anyone with the intention of benefiting himself or others against the law by using false names, false dignity, deception, series of lies, mobilizing or persuading others to hand over goods, giving debts or eliminating receivables with a threat of 4 years in prison," he said.