Applicants For The Work Of Data Fraud Victims For Pinjol Were Accompanied By Work As Admins For Mobile Content At PGC Cililitan

Victims of fraud and theft of personal data for loans at the East Jakarta Police/PHOTO: Rizky Sulistio-VOI

JAKARTA Dozens of victims of personal data theft for online loans by mobile phone counter employees with the initials R at the Cililitan Wholesale Center (PGC), Kramat Jati, East Jakarta, were accompanied by jobs by the perpetrators.

"The victims, what is clear is that they were accompanied by work at PGC. However, until now, the victims do not know what the origin of the work is. The victims do not know at all," said Muhammad Tasrif Tuasamu, attorney for the victims of fraud and embezzlement of personal data at the East Jakarta Metro Police, Friday, 5 July.

The incident began when the reported initial R offered admin mobile phone counter work to victims of fraud and embezzlement.

Furthermore, the victims submitted several requirements such as a face selfie (swaphoto), but without permission and knowledge from the victims. It turned out that the reported R had installed the application on the victim's cellphone.

So suddenly there are transactions of online loan bills and online loans, such as Shopeepay later, ada kami, Home Credit, Kredivo, Akulaku and others. Meanwhile, the victims never submitted the transaction.

It was only realized that the victims after they suddenly received various bills and terror from the debt collectors of online loans.

"Over the course of the trip, the victim only realized that they knew there was a debt collector suspected of threatening. What is clear is that the data (work applicants) was used for this loan. Then there were various types of buying goods and online loans," said Tasrif Tuasamu.

A total of 27 victims of fraud and embezzlement of personal data were identified as Muhammad Lutfi, Reza Juliansyah, Jedy Rachmattulloh, Balkis C, Dian Rizki, Fira Tauriana, Abdul Rohman, Dwi Agusti, Alfira Sri, Sri Suharsih, Fadhid Bagus, Rasid Maulana, Amanda Cheza, Danisih, Mega, M Arsandi, Tria Fradani, Dicky P, Dicky P, Syahroni, Eva Maria, Ferina, Ainun Nisa, Annisa Septiani, Eka Febrianti, Dwi Rizki, Jumantoro and Syifa Wahyu. The victims were harmed by a total bill of Rp. 1,017,619,248.

"We have submitted all the evidence, we have submitted it to the East Jakarta Metro Police, we have submitted it to investigators," he said.

Previously, as many as 27 job applicants became victims of fraud and embezzlement with the mode of personal data theft used for online loans by a mobile phone counter. The victims also reported the incident to the East Jakarta Metro Police.

According to information from Muhammad Lutfi (31), one of the victims, the crime was carried out by the reported person with the initials R, as an employee of the Wahana Store cellphone counter operating on the 3rd floor, Cililitan Wholesale Mall (PGC), Jalan Mayjen Sutoyo, Kramat Jati District, East Jakarta.

Dozens of residents were initially promised a job on the condition that they submitted their ID cards and cellphones along with an application letter to R, an employee of the Wahana Store PCG Cililitan mobile phone counter shop, Kramat Jati.

However, apparently, R stole the job applicant data to apply for an online loan. In fact, the total loss suffered by 27 victims was more than IDR 1 billion.