Grab The New E-Commerce Store

Screenshot of the Grab Toko trading site

JAKARTA - Recently, social media was surprised by a new e-commerce called Grab Toko. The reason is that this buying and selling site dares to give tantalizing discounts.

Even for hot items like the iPhone 12 or PlayStation 5, they dare to give massive discounts from 50 percent to 90 percent. Unfortunately it is just making it up or making it up, because many people are now biting their fingers.

This means that the dream of many people to have cheap high-tech electronic goods from Grab Toko must be dashed. This is because suddenly the management has disclosed an alleged fraud by investors.

"I am Yudha Manggala Putra. Managing Director of PT Grab Toko Indonesia. First, apologize for the delay in response from Grab Toko, we are currently reporting Grab Toko investors for embezzlement of consumer money to the Police Headquarters in Trunojoyo, South Jakarta (report number following the investigation. ), "said Yudha Manggala Putra in a statement on Instagram Grab Toko.

It is not yet known how many consumer transactions were affected by the fraud. However, while the investigation process is still being carried out, Yudha said that his party will immediately return the consumer's money as soon as possible.

"We have also tried to confiscate existing investor assets and freeze all of our accounts, in order to avoid even greater losses. We will return the consumer's money as soon as possible after going through the police process. Once again I apologize for the losses incurred," he continued.

So who is the Grab Store Investor? Quoting data from the Directorate General of General Legal Administration (Ditjen AHU), a company called PT Grab Toko Indonesia, has a date of legalization of the establishment of 27 November 2020.

The document also lists Anak Agung Narendra Putra as the company's commissioner. Then the name Yudha Manggala Putra was also listed as a company director.

Not part of Grab Indonesia

Many think that Grab Toko is a subsidiary or collaborating with the on-demand service Grab Indonesia. However, after being traced, Grab Indonesia denied that Grab Toko was affiliated with the company.

This was conveyed by Grab Indonesia Public Relations Manager Dewi Nuraini who emphasized that Grab Toko has nothing to do with Grab, "It has nothing to do, it is not part of Grab," said Nuraini.

In addition, Nuraini and his party will also take the necessary legal steps, because of the use of the name Grab Toko which resembles Grab Indonesia's ride-hailing service.

"We will take the necessary legal steps to protect our brand reputation. Because the Grab brand is registered and protected as intellectual property rights in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in Indonesia," Nuraini explained.

And now Instagram grabtoko ilang 🤣Dah, want to be lazy again. Want to make more money. Luckily there are still no families that are supported, so you are free to go with the money 🤣

- richbandit (@ChardKurniawan) January 6, 2021

Trending Then Disappeared

After the announcement of the alleged fraud, Grab Toko's activities, which had been vigorous on social media and the internet, suddenly disappeared. The @grabtokoid account just disappeared from the Instagram page.

It is known that the IG Grab Toko account has also changed its name 14 times, before finally loading 68 posts with a total of 78 thousand followers. Now the Grab Toko account and the buying and selling site can no longer be accessed and all of its posts are gone.

On the other hand, payment options for groceries purchased from Grab Toko can only be transferred via BCA bank. Due to this incident, BCA took swift action.

This largest private bank immediately froze the Grab Toko account. In its official announcement, BCA disclosed this decision in response to information circulating about fraud in an e-commerce store where one of the recipient's accounts used a BCA account.

"We can say that in carrying out banking operations, BCA always follows the applicable legal provisions in Indonesia. BCA has postponed transactions on the account of the e-commerce store concerned so that the account is temporarily unable to make transactions," said BCA in its official statement.