Couples Who Fraud Coldplay Tickets Are In Jastip Mode, Buy Twitter Accounts And Accounts Of Hundreds Of Thousands

Direskrimsus Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Auliansyah Lubis (second from the left) together with the Head of Public Relations of the Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko/ANTARA/Ilham Kausar

JAKARTA - A married couple (couple) who is the perpetrator of the Coldplay concert ticket sales fraud is said to have bought the Twitter account @findtrove_id. In fact, they are also bank accounts that are used as a place to accommodate the proceeds from fraud.

"They are the perpetrators of opening the website ( Twitter account) under the name @findtrove_id, which is what they bought from Twitter," said Director of Special Criminal Investigation at Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Auliansyah Lubis to reporters, Monday, May 22.

From the results of the examination, the couple with the initials ABF and W bought the Twitter account for Rp. 750 thousand. With this account, they tricked the victim with a deposit service mode (jastip).

Their investigators also admitted to using a bank account that was not in their name.

The account was obtained by buying online for Rp. 400 thousand. The goal is that their real identity is not tracked down.

"They also bought the account to someone so that their identity was not their identity or not the identity of the perpetrator," he said.

So after we carried out the investigation process, it turned out that on Twitter someone was buying and selling accounts. So there is indeed someone who offers to buy and sell accounts. "Does anyone want to buy my account? And he bought that account for Rp. 400,000," continued Auliansyah.

In their action, they used the Jattip mode. Prospective victims are asked to pay a down payment of Rp. 50,000 saying they want to use their services.

To make it more convincing, this couple made a form that must be filled by the victims. They also upload a tweet when they already have a Coldplay concert ticket that is ready to be sold.

"They are also to convince victims or people who want to buy, they already have one real ticket that they get," he said.

From the results of the interim examination, they have tricked 60 people. Losses reached hundreds of millions.

"The victims who reported to our place were approximately 60 people and we traced those in their savings amounting to Rp257 million, this is for the results of a temporary investigation," said Auliansyah.

The couple has now been detained. They are suspected of under Article 28 paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 45 paragraph 1 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions.

Then Article 378 of the Criminal Code, Article 372 of the Criminal Code, Article 3 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the prevention and eradication of the crime of money laundering or money laundering, and or Article 4 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning Money Laundering, and Article 5 of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning Money Laundering.