There Are 2,300 Cases Of Online Fraud, Let's Understand The Social Engineering Mode

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Jakarta - The case of burglary money has actually developed rapidly in this digital era, through online fraud using social engineering mode. Of course, it cost many tens of millions of losses

According to data from Polda Metro Jaya, there were 2,300 reports related to cases of cyber crime or online fraud throughout 2019. This number is increasing every year, compared to other criminal cases.

"For 2019 there were 2,300 cases of cyber crime or ITE. Every year it tends to increase, we handle every report directly, but sometimes victims are quick to report something slow," said Head of Sub-Directorate for Cyber Crime, Polda Metro Jaya, AKBP Dhany Aryanda. , to the media crew in the Thamrin area, Central Jakarta, Thursday 23 January.

The online fraud crime referred to by Dhany uses social engineering techniques. Generally, this mode is done via telephone or the internet, without having to depend on the operating system or platform used.

The goal is definitely to influence the victims to make transactions with various nominal values, starting in the range of Rp. 300 thousand to millions of rupiah. "There was once a SIM swap that was connected to seven credit cards. You can imagine the losses," he added.

Dhany also asked if there were victims affected by this online fraud to immediately report to the police. Because it didn't take long for the perpetrators to remove their digital traces, before the police conducted an investigation.

Gopay Balance Breaks

One of the largest on-demand services in Indonesia, GoJek seems to be working hard to improve security for its application users. The reason is that several hacking cases have drained the contents of the Gopay digital wallet balance belonging to its customers, which is caused by social engineering, aka fraud.

According to Gojek Chief Information Security George Do, the cases experienced by Maia Estianty and Aura Kasih are examples of fraud cases. Where the perpetrator has tricked the victim into submitting credential information, so that the perpetrator will use it to take over a digital wallet or bank account.

"100 percent of the cases you see in the media are caused by social engineering, not hacking into the Gopay system," he told the media crew.

George guarantees Gojek's security system which is very capable for now. However, he hopes that his customers will also be willing to take part in safeguarding credential data, be it passwords, one time passwords, to the user's email address.

"Security is always our # 1 priority, so we are considering all options to continue protecting our users. Most importantly, we need to educate everyone to protect their accounts from social engineering," he concluded.