Many Internet users abroad who become victims of crime through the virtual world (cyber crime) committed by perpetrators in Indonesia. Interpol Indonesia claimed many receive reports and complaints from Internet users in other countries who feel cheated by people who claim to traders in Indonesia.
"According to the victims, they have been offered goods by traders in Indonesia over the Internet, but when he had paid a deposit (down payment), those who claim that merchants disappear," said Secretary of the National Central Bureau (NCB)-Interpol Indonesia Brigadier General Halba Rubis Nugroho, in Bandung, Kamis (5 / 11).
"After the buyer pays a certain percentage down payment, buyers disappeared and could not be contacted," he said in Bandung.
According to him, cyber crime trends in Indonesia are now beginning to change. In the past, perpetrators of cyber crime modus using another credit card to buy goods from abroad. "Well now the opposite. Many victims from overseas instead of deceived by the false traders from Indonesia during the transaction via the Internet," he said in Bandung.
He called for all parties to be careful before the transaction via the virtual world. In addition, prior to the transaction, should report to the NCB through the first www.interpol.go.id. "With that report, we'll check what the merchant's true or fictitious. And vice versa," he said.
In the same place, Kanit V / Cyber Directorate of Police Headquarters Criminal Investigation Body II Commissioner Peter Rice Golose said, Indonesia has recorded as a country that most acts of his cyber crime.
"That's the quantity. But in terms of quality, America's number one because of the action that cyber crime, 85 percent of the IP protocol of the United States. The 15 percent spread across the world," he said. According to him, from 2006 until 2009, there have been many victims from 49 countries in the world who claim to be victims of cyber crime by Indonesian people.
Besides, he adds, the work to investigate cyber crime quite unique. The reason is unknown perpetrators. "Most who see his computer. And to deal with cyber crime cases in Indonesia, we only had 20 people," he said.
"According to the victims, they have been offered goods by traders in Indonesia over the Internet, but when he had paid a deposit (down payment), those who claim that merchants disappear," said Secretary of the National Central Bureau (NCB)-Interpol Indonesia Brigadier General Halba Rubis Nugroho, in Bandung, Kamis (5 / 11).
"After the buyer pays a certain percentage down payment, buyers disappeared and could not be contacted," he said in Bandung.
According to him, cyber crime trends in Indonesia are now beginning to change. In the past, perpetrators of cyber crime modus using another credit card to buy goods from abroad. "Well now the opposite. Many victims from overseas instead of deceived by the false traders from Indonesia during the transaction via the Internet," he said in Bandung.
He called for all parties to be careful before the transaction via the virtual world. In addition, prior to the transaction, should report to the NCB through the first www.interpol.go.id. "With that report, we'll check what the merchant's true or fictitious. And vice versa," he said.
In the same place, Kanit V / Cyber Directorate of Police Headquarters Criminal Investigation Body II Commissioner Peter Rice Golose said, Indonesia has recorded as a country that most acts of his cyber crime.
"That's the quantity. But in terms of quality, America's number one because of the action that cyber crime, 85 percent of the IP protocol of the United States. The 15 percent spread across the world," he said. According to him, from 2006 until 2009, there have been many victims from 49 countries in the world who claim to be victims of cyber crime by Indonesian people.
Besides, he adds, the work to investigate cyber crime quite unique. The reason is unknown perpetrators. "Most who see his computer. And to deal with cyber crime cases in Indonesia, we only had 20 people," he said.
