Beware Of Fraud Sites Prakerja.vip, Menaker Advises Victims To Report The Police

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JAKARTA - Minister of Manpower Ida Fauziyah appealed to people who were victims of fraud on the Pre-Employment Card program registration site, https://prakerja.vip , to report to the police.

Reported by Antara, Monday, October 12, According to the Minister of Manpower, the official and correct Prakerja site is only https://prakerja.go.id . For that, he advised the public, who had been deceived, to report the losses suffered to the police so that they could be processed.

"Be careful when your fellow workers receive information. Stay alert and report it to the police if you experience a loss," said Ida via a short message received in Jakarta, Monday.

Previously, the pre-employment list site went viral and became the number one trending topic on the Google search site with more than 200,000 searches, Sunday, October 11.

After tracing, the topic became a trend after the appearance of chain messages via Whatsapp about the registration site https://prakerja.vip.

The chain message reads as follows:

"Register for Pre-employment Now, get 600,000 assistance from the government through the pre-employment program. The Pre-employment Card is a competency development program in the form of financial assistance aimed at job seekers, laid-off workers or workers who need increased competence.

Assistance will be sent every month as long as this program is running.

Steps to apply for Pre-employment

⚫ Visit the site https://prakerja.vip

⚫ Fill in the personal data form

⚫ You will get a notification via email / cellphone number

⚫ Assistance will be sent via bank account

please share this message with relatives in need. "

Ida said the site was a site similar to the official prakerja.go.id site.

He suspects that the prakerja.vip site was created to accommodate the submission of personal data, free of charge, from the registrants.

The Ministry of Manpower has attempted to inform the public through a number of official social media accounts managed by the Ministry of Manpower, that the information is hoax.

However, irresponsible parties also create similar social media accounts, such as on Telegram.

Ida said the Ministry of Manpower's Telegram account was not managed by the Ministry of Manpower. For that he reminded the public to be careful in passing on information from there.

In addition, he also said that social media accounts managed by the Ministry of Manpower had a blue tick or were verified.