Sell Sim Card Handpone Using Other People's Identity Without Permission, Initial Card Seller Arrested

SEMARANG Nekat sold thousands of mobile first cards that were registered without the identity owner's permission, a resident of Jetis Hamlet, Dlimas Village, Banyuputih District, Batang Regency, dealt with the police. The man with the initials KA (26) who is the owner of a pulse counter was arrested by the Central Java Police Ditreskrimsus.

Ditreskrimsus Polda Central Java Kombes Pol Dwi Subagio revealed that the suspect's actions had been carried out since 2020.

The disclosure of the case began with public information about the sale of ready-to-use mobile first cards that had been registered with data from other people in the Batang area.

"The suspect's mode of registration of the first card uses the identity of another person without permission from the identity owner. Then the registered first card was sold by the suspect," said Kombes Dwi Subagio before the media, Wednesday, March 8.

This information was then followed up by Sub-Directorate V/Tipidsiber by deploying a team to the Batang area.

"The results of the investigation at the suspect KA's house found an initial card registration activity using someone else's data," he continued.

At the suspect's house, officers secured evidence in the form of a number of computers, a flashdisk dongle modem pool, a cellphone and several boxes of first cards.

By the suspect, the illegally registered card was then sold to customers online. In a month the sales turnover reached Rp. 15 million.

The suspect admitted that he got this knowledge by himself from a video on YouTube, and shared it with fellow cellular card sellers. The equipment and an initial card used in the action were also purchased online.

"Including the application used to obtain other people's identity data, he also got it from the results of downloading on Google. Currently we are still investigating who the application maker is," he said.

From the results of the examination carried out, there has been no involvement of the mobile service provider regarding the way the suspect got the mobile SIM card.

Kombes Dwi Subagio said the suspect's actions were very detrimental to the community, especially the victims whose identities were illegally used for registration of their first cards.

"Because the cellular card is very vulnerable to being used for criminal acts. This is very concerning because it is easy for someone's personal data to be accessed through the application," he added.

As a result of this act, the suspect KA was charged with Article 51 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 35 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions, with the threat of a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison and a fine of 12 billion and/or Article 94 in conjunction with Article 77 of Law Number 24 of 2013 concerning amendments to Law Number 23 of 2006 concerning Population Administration, with the threat of a maximum prison sentence of 6 years and a fine of 75 million.