VIDEO: Transnational Fraud Crimes Raising IDR 84.8 Billion Revealed By Bareskrim

JAKARTA - The Directorate of Cyber Crime (Ditpidsiber) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Indonesian National Police revealed a fraud crime with a cyber crime scheme that uses email fraud against cross-border companies, with a total loss of Rp. 84.8 billion.

"The National Police Ditpidsiber has revealed a fraudulent crime with a business email compromise (BEC) scheme aimed at several companies, financial managers or financial officers in one company by posing as a victim's business partner," said the Head of the Public Information Bureau (Karopenmas) of the Police Public Relations Division. Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, Friday, October 1.

Rusdi explained that the perpetrator's goal was to obtain funds, which were actually intended for the victim's business partners, but it turned out that the funds were sent to the perpetrators of fraud.

In this case, the Ditpidsiber Bareskrim Polri arrested four Indonesian citizens who had been named suspects.

The four suspects consisted of three women and one man with the initials CT (25), NTS (38), FP (26) and YH (24).

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