TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Police have arrested two Nigerian citizens, Mallo Gombo (also known as Peter Nwan Kwo) and Vincent Enwere Anuma (a.k.a Casey), in relation to a string of internet scams.
"Both suspects are still under intensive interrogation," said the director of criminal investigations of the Jakarta Police Sr. Comr. Heru Pranoto in Jakarta on Wednesday, August 20, 2014.
Jakarta Police chief of criminal investigations Police Adj. Sr. Comr. Didik Sugiarto, explained that the pair created an imitation of Bank Mandiri's official website, the link of which they sent in a random manner via e-mail. Some of the unsuspecting victims would then input their personal data into the fake website, essentially giving their identity credentials to the scammers.
A victim, NW, had unsuspectingly used the link sent by the scammer to input her personal information. The scammer, already in possession of NW's personal information, only needed a PIN number that is randomly generated by Bank Mandiri's security token device.
One of the scammers then contacted NW, pretending to be a Bank Mandiri staff doing a routine round of calls to update his customer database, who then asked NW for the random PIN generated by the device. Once NW gave away the PIN, the scammers immediately transferred Rp100 million from NW's account.
Three victims have fallen prey to this internet scam, costing around Rp300 million of losses in total.
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