OJK Regarding Toko Online Fraud In Bogor: Tempted By Commission 10 Percent, The Majority Of IPB Student Victims

JAKARTA - The Financial Services Authority (OJK) through the Investment Alert Task Force or SWI has finally followed up on an online store fraud case in Bogor which is suspected to have been going on since six months ago.

Chairman of the Investment Alert Task Force Tongam L. Tobing said fraud cases under the guise of online business cooperation promised a return of 10 percent per transaction.

"Most of these victims are students of the Bogor Agricultural University (IPB). They are asked to borrow money from online financing companies or loans," he said when visiting the IPB campus on Monday, November 21.

According to Tongam, the money from the loan was then asked to be transferred to the perpetrator without any items being handed over to the buyer.

"So this is fictitious. They are made as if they bought goods but the goods were not handed over by the perpetrators," he said.

Tongam suspects that many IPB students are victims because they are interested in investing because they are promised that the perpetrator will pay the debt installments from the loan.

"In further developments, the perpetrator never fulfilled the promise of paying this loan debt, so the debt collectors continued to collect from the students who were listed as borrowers," he asserted.

Tongam claimed to have identified three online loan companies and one peer-to-peer lending fintech company that had been licensed from the OJK was included in the vortex of this case.

"There are 321 victims, including 126 IPB students," he added.

Tongam, who is also listed as the Head of the OJK Investigation Department, said the value of the loss exceeded billions of rupiah.

"The total loss is currently estimated at IDR 2.3 billion and the case has been handled by the Bogor Police," he said.

"Therefore, we, the Investment Alert Task Force, will continue to coordinate with the Bogor Police to reveal more in-depth information on this issue. Then we will also work with the ranks of the IPB Rectorate to conduct socialization and education about the financial services sector," Tongam said.