PEKANBARU - Subdit V Siber Direktorat Reserse Kriminal Khusus Polda Riau membongkar praktik pembuatan situs tiruan atau fake website perbankan yang digunakan untuk aksi phishing dan pencurian data nasabah.
In the disclosure of this case, a student with the initials D who is a resident of Kampar Regency was officially named a suspect.
The Director of Special Criminal Investigation of the Riau Police, Kombes Ade Kuncoro, revealed that the young man actively produced and traded replica websites that resembled the official appearance of a number of national banks and large digital banks in Indonesia.
The fake websites were deliberately created to facilitate the illegal collection of victims' banking data.
"The suspect has the technical ability to replicate the appearance of the banking website very similar to the original. After the website is completed, the link is handed over to the ordering party. This is then potentially used to deceive the public by directing victims to enter usernames, passwords, and OTP codes into the fake site," said Ade in Pekanbaru, Tuesday (26/5/2026).
Ade explained that this case was revealed through routine cyber patrols carried out by personnel from the Cyber Sub-Directorate of the Riau Police's Criminal Investigation Unit.
Police initially found a social media account offering website creation services.
After conducting in-depth and digital profiling, it was found that the suspect did not just create a regular website, but provided a fake platform that resembled internet banking services.
Based on the results of the examination, the suspect was known to sell one fake website at a price ranging from IDR 400 thousand to IDR 1 million to the ordering party.
From the location of the arrest in the Siak Hulu area, Kampar Regency, the police seized a number of evidence in the form of computer devices, laptops, mobile phones, digital accounts, and software used to modify the script of the banking page to resemble the official site.
Until now, the Riau Police investigators have recorded at least two victims who have filed official reports related to the activities of the fake banking site with a total loss of Rp1 billion.
The first victim reportedly suffered a loss of around Rp750 million, while the second victim suffered a loss of around Rp250 million.
Ade added that the emergence of victims with large losses shows that phishing-based cybercrime has posed a real threat.
According to him, the modus operandi of digital fraud is getting more sophisticated because the perpetrators are able to create a display that is very identical to the official website so that the general public will have difficulty distinguishing it.
For his actions, suspect D was charged with the criminal provisions as stipulated in Law Number 1 of 2024 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE), namely Article 51 in conjunction with Article 35 and/or Article 50 in conjunction with Article 34 paragraph (1) letter a.
Ditreskrimsus Polda Riau emphasized that it would continue to strengthen cyber patrols on an ongoing basis in order to take firm action against parties who provide digital crime infrastructure.
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