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Alleged credit cards thieves reaped Rp 500 million from their crimes
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The Jakarta Police have arrested three alleged credit card data thieves who reportedly posed as bank officers while calling their victims to trick them into disclosing their credit card details. (Shutterstock/-)
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he Jakarta Police have arrested three alleged credit card data thieves who reportedly reaped more than Rp 500 million (US$36,305) from their crimes.
The police's crime and violence unit chief, Adj. Comr. Abdul Rohim, said on Tuesday that the suspects had stolen the data of 20 credit cards and spent more than Rp 500 million on offline and online transactions.
The three suspects were arrested by the police on Sunday.
“The thieves used 80 to 100 phone numbers to contact their victims to get credit card data,” Abdul said as quoted by kompas.com.
Abdul said the suspects first made sure that the victims’ bank accounts were still active and sorted through the customers’ data to find their phone numbers.
“The suspects called their targets first and if a target’s phone number was active, they would call again using a different phone number and pose as a bank officer, telling their victims that their credit cards were damaged,” Abdul said.
“The suspects asked the victims to tell them the CVV number and expiry date of their cards,” he added.
Abdul warned bank customers to not believe anyone asking for banking information using a private phone number and to inform the bank immediately if they received any suspicious calls. (ami)
