JAKARTA - An employee of the DKI Jakarta Communication, Informatics and Statistics Agency (Diskominfotik) has become a victim of online fraud with the mode of changing the manual ID card to a digital ID card.
As a result of the incident, the victim with the initials LT (49) suffered a loss of Rp. 2.6 million. The victim reported the incident to the SPKT room of the Tanah Abang Metro Police.
According to the victim's statement, he was deceived by a person who claimed to be from Dukcapil, Tanah Abang District.
"I became a victim of fraud. He admitted that he was from Dukcapil, Tanah Abang District. IDR 2.6 million was lost," LT told reporters, Friday (20/6/2025).
The victim, who is a PJLP (Other Individual Service Provider) member, explained that the incident began when he received a call via a WhatsApp account by someone who claimed to be named Rudi Hermanto. The man claimed to be an employee of Dukcapil, Tanah Abang District.
At that time, Rudi said that he wanted to verify the manual KTP to a digital ID card.
"Honestly at that time I was not suspicious because personal data, such as ID Number NIK, home address, husband's name, child, identity card number (KK) and other data were exactly the same. Then I followed the instructions concerned," he admitted.
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Furthermore, the perpetrator asked his colleague, who claimed to be Junna Wijaya with the phone number 081371599293 and claimed to be a data verification officer from Dukcapil, Tanah Abang District, to direct the victim to enter KTPdata.com.
The victim complied with the perpetrator's request. In plain view, continued the victim, the website looks like the official website belonging to the DKI Jakarta Dukcapil Office.
Several other instructions were also followed, starting from clicking the google play store on the website to entering passwords to purchasing digital stamps through BCA mobile banking and Bank DKI on its smartphone.
"After several stages have been followed, and the purchase of digital stamps through mobile banking of the two banks failed, finally the one who called I asked me to come to Tanah Abang District to continue the process," he said.
"Well, there was suspicion and I immediately checked the balance at Bank BCA, it turned out that Rp. 2.6 million disappeared, moved to BRI's account on behalf of Maulana Pratama Salasah," he added.
LT admitted that his lost money was a savings for his son's tuition fees.
"The money is for my son's tuition fee," he regretted.
Realizing that he was a victim of fraud, LT reported the incident to the Tanah Abang Metro Police. He hopes that this case can be revealed by the police.
"I pray that this case can be revealed so that there are no other victims," he said.
The Head of Criminal Investigation Unit of the Tanah Abang Metro Police, Kompol Martua Malau, said that the victim on behalf of Lenny Tristia had made a report to the Tanah Abang Metro Police.
"This case is still under investigation," he said.
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