Buy Rp7.5 Million People's Identity, Illegal Syndicate Access Gets Rp1.5 Billion Profit From Transactions

JAKARTA - The police arrested an illegal group with access to home credit mode. This syndicate uses other people's identities to make transactions on credit on the Tokopedia platform.

"Fraud accompanied by falsification of victims of PT Homecredit Indonesia," said Head of Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Yusro Yunus to reporters, Wednesday, October 13.

In this case, two people with the initials UA and SM were named as suspects. Both use other people's data obtained by buying from the Telegram social media account 'Raha'.

"(The perpetrator) bought data first, with a selfie holding someone's ID card through an existing Telegram account," said Yusri.

These perpetrators bought the data at a price of Rp. 7.5 million. The data is used for shopping on the Tokopedia platform.

It was recorded that 150 transactions on credit were carried out by the perpetrators. They buy cellphones up to 5 grams of gold coins. The total loss of victims reached Rp. 1.5 billion.

"He used the online shopping process for the online shopping process on the Tokped application," said Yusri.

This case was revealed after the invoice for the purchase of goods was filed. Because the owner of the original identity felt that he had never ordered the item.

"But after checking by home credit, they never complained that the person on the ID card had never ordered the item," said Yusri.

"He did this with the aim of billing the purchase of goods. So later the billing was to the ID card data. So he who played, got data, then ordered cellphones and 5 grams of gold to pay using home credit. But the one who paid for the ID card he got," he continued.

The perpetrators were charged with Article 30 Juncto Article 46 or Article 32 in the ITE Law, which carries a threat of 12 years in prison and Articles 378 and 372, Article 3 of the Indonesian Law on Money Laundering.