Students In NTB Run A Gore Oil Selling Fraud Mode Via WhatsApp, There Are Many Victims

Head of Satreskrim Polresta Mataram Kompol Kadek Adi Budi Astawa (central) together with members showed the suspect and evidence of a fraud case with the mode of selling cooking oil. (photo: dock. inter)

MATARAM - Investigator of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Mataram City Police, West Nusa Tenggara, handled the case of a student with the initials SP (21), who is suspected of running a fraud mode by selling cooking oil through a social media application, WhatsApp. "So, this perpetrator runs a fraud mode by making a'story' selling cooking oil on WA (WhatsApp)," said Head of Satreskrim Polresta Mataram Police Commissioner Kadek Adi Budi Astawa in Mataram, Saturday, October 15 to Antara. In the WhatsApp status, explained Kadek Adi, this student offered to purchase Bimoli brand cooking oil with a pre-order (PO) system or sellers made products according to orders. The mode of SP student was then reported to the police after one of the victims with the initials AF (20) felt cheated. "The victim has transferred money, but the goods never came. "That is the basis for the victim's report," he said. In ordering the perpetrator, the victim sent Rp 31.2 million on April 9, 2022. The victim ordered 120 boxes of Bimoli cooking oil. "Waiting until October, the perpetrator never sent the product to the victim, because the price (of cooking oil) went up," he said. According to the chronology of the report, the police immediately searched the existence of the SP and arrested him on Thursday, October 13 at his home in the Ampenan area, Mataram City. "Based on the results of the case title, we have now named SP as a suspect suspected of violating Article 372 of the Criminal Code concerning Embezzlement and Article 378 of the Criminal Code on Fraud," he said. In handling this case, the police have confiscated a copy of the footage of the WhatsApp "story" belonging to the suspect in the sale of Bimoli brand cooking oil. In addition, the police also secured two pieces of proof of payment transfer from the victim worth Rp. 31.2 million. "We also secured the victim's bank account related to the transfer of orders for cooking oil to the suspect. "There was also confiscated a note of purchase," said Kadek. Furthermore, from this case it was revealed that SP was also reported to the West Lombok Police and the NTB Police. The report is related to a similar mode experienced by AF victims. "So we are still investigating this case regarding the number of victims of this perpetrator mode. "What is clear is that for now we are handling four reports for SP perpetrators," he said.