South Sulawesi Police Reveals Online Fraud Cases In The Mode Of Selling Dasters

Director of the Ditreskrimsus Polda Sulsel Kombes Helmi Kwarta Rauf (center) /ANTARA

The Cyber Team of the Directorate of Special Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimsus) of the South Sulawesi Police uncovered an online fraud syndicate orpassobis with a negligee selling mode and has made a profit of up to IDR 4.6 billion by arresting four perpetrators.

"These four perpetrators have been named as suspects after being arrested in Sidrap Regency. The perpetrators have the initials AA after 25 years, MS is 25 years old, AE is 29 years old and MS is 26 years old. This syndicate has been in action for a long time and has succeeded in deceiving its victims," said Director of the South Sulawesi Police Ditreskrimsus Kombes Helmi Kwarta Rauf as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, December 14.

The disclosure of this case is quite long because this online fraud syndicate has been quite clever and has launched its actions since 2018 until now. The arrest of the perpetrator was also based on four police reports from the victim due to heavy losses.

On its way, the South Sulawesi Regional Police in collaboration with the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, assisted by the Financial Analysis Report Center (PPATK) team to trace the transaction data of the perpetrators including the Cyber Team of the South Sulawesi Police, also tracing the assets of the perpetrators in collaboration with the Banking, Pegadaian, and the National Land Agency or BPN.

"There are many victims, but four people reported them, some were deceived by Rp. 60 million and above them. The victims were actually deceived a lot but the losses were small so they did not report," said Helmi Kwarta.

From the recorded transaction results obtained in Perbankan, the perpetrators have been committing online fraud for a long time and even made a profit of IDR 4.6 billion.

Meanwhile, the evidence that was secured by the Cyber Sub-Directorate of the South Sulawesi Regional Police was 1 housing unit on Jalan Sadrowaja, Sidrap Regency Kalosis, land in Kalisi Sidrap, Toyota Fortuner, Honda CRV, Toyota Calya, Brio cars, one unit each, one Yamaha NMAX motorbike, mobile phones of various types, one drone unit and one Bos brand watch.

"We have now secured these four perpetrators at the South Sulawesi Police Headquarters for further legal proceedings. Data from PPATK is very helpful in uncovering this network because it is to trace the assets of the group. After being summarized there are Rp4.6 billion transactions carried out, we are still continuing the search," said Helmi.

Kasubdit 5 Cyber Polda Sulsel Kompol Bayu Wichaksono on that occasion said the perpetrators launched their fraudulent actions with the mode of selling negligee through social media with fake advertisements and the price of the promo offered was very cheap and included a WhatsApp number to facilitate communication.

If the victim is entangled in wanting to buy, the order format is given in the form of a name, account number, and the address of the prospective buyer. Then after the victim sent some money according to the promo price, the ordered item never arrived.

"If the victim complains, the perpetrator directs to contact the shop treasurer with the excuse that there is a technical error, but actually the number contacted by the victim is also another number from the perpetrator's network," he added.