Buy Cheap Cooking Oil With The Requirement For Photo Of An ID Card Similar To Pinjol, OJK: People Must Be Careful

Financial Services Authority (OJK) (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Chief Executive of the Behavior Supervisory of Financial Services Business Actors, Education and Consumer Protection of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) Friderica Widyasari Dewi appealed to the public to remain vigilant and careful in providing personal data information to anyone. "Currently, requests for personal data can use various modes, such as awarding, winning lottery, commissioning, purchasing products with special prices, to job offers," said Friderica in Jakarta, as reported by ANTARA. This was conveyed by Friderica in response to events that occurred in Situbondo, East Java following a number of residents of Arjasa Village who bought cheap cooking oil from someone provided by photocopy using an ID card card, similar to online loans (pinjol)., said Friderica, the public should be careful and not rash in making clicks on random links, downloading files from unknown persons, as well as providing personal data information such as ID cards, birth dates, birth names, and one-time passwords (OTP) to other parties. "We urge the public to be extra careful in providing personal data, such as NIK, ID cards, face photos, especially if they have been asked to record, provide face photos," he said. OJK found, personal data on consumers of financial products are often used for data exchange in marketing and commercial purposes. From these findings, several cases have been submitted to the police because of the existence of criminal elements in it. OJK will continue to work together with related parties to ensure the protection of consumers in the financial services sector. OJK also appeals to financial service (PUJK) business actors to improve the process of know your customer (KYC) so as to be able to mitigate the risk of misuse of public or consumer personal data by irresponsible parties.

Previously, hundreds of women in Arjasa Village, Arjasa District, Situbondo Regency, East Java, bought cheap cooking oil of Rp. 5,000 per packaging from a group of people on the condition that they had to take a photo of their ID card and selfie photo. The village government asked the group of sellers. As a result, the village asked the seller to delete all the data that had been obtained. "A total of 135 people have been ordered to take photos, but our agreement on the data must be deleted because it is feared that the data will be used for loan applications," said Arjasa Village Head, Busairi.