OJK Urges The Public Not To Click On Unknown Applications

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JAKARTA - The Head of the Financial Services Authority (OJK) of Bengkulu Province, Adji Siswantoro, appealed to the public not to just click on an application, especially the sender of an unknown application. In addition, so that people are more careful about personal data such as identity cards (KTP) and others so as not to be given to anyone. "We ask the Bengkulu community not to click on applications carelessly or that sent by people not known via messages," he said in Bengkulu City, quoted from Antara, Saturday, March 11. This was done because the Bengkulu OJK found victims of sniffing or digital crimes with an application mode that was spread via short message. Even though at this time no community has made an official report to the OJK office, but it was found that there were victims as a result of this in Bengkulu Province. Tito continued, for the number of losses suffered by the victim, he could not mention it in detail.

The mode of sending an invitation in the form of an application is the same as the message from an individual who claims to be from a package courier. If the public downloads the application, the victim's money in m-banking is lost and that is a trap that has an impact on the balance that is drained. Therefore, the victims from the short message application should make a report to the police to be followed up, because they have been included in a criminal act of fraud.

Previously, OJK Bengkulu found two cases in Bengkulu that received messages claiming to be package couriers by sending applications and when the application was downloaded and the victim's money in m-banking was lost. Two victims of the package courier messaging application suffered losses of up to tens of millions and currently, they have been asked to follow up on the problem to the bank. Terang Tito, when the public had to make sure that the number that sent the application was known and not an unknown number.