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Brilio.net - Currently finding work is quite difficult, because it is caused by various factors, one of which is tight competition. Not only that, job seekers also apparently received threats regarding the personal data submitted when applying for jobs. This happened to 27 applicants at a cellphone sales shop at the Cililitan Wholesale Center (PGC), East Jakarta. It is known that the applicant's data is used as collateral for online loans (Pinjol) .
Nicolas Ary Lilipaly, East Jakarta Metro Police Chief, said that dozens of job applicants were initially promised jobs on condition of handing over KTPs and cellphones. Apart from that, applicants are also asked to include an application letter which will later be submitted to a reported person with the initials R. It is known that R in this case acts as a distributor.
"In this case, it was reported that Brother R carried out his modus operandi in the form of being a labor distributor at an HP Counter at the Cililitan Wholesale Center (PGC) Mall, East Jakarta," said East Jakarta Metro Police Chief Commissioner Pol Nicolas Ary Lilipaly in his statement quoted from merdeka6.com on Tuesday. (9/7).
"Reported R is looking for prey with a note that this victim can provide his or her real identity (Real KTP) and take a selfie photo of each victim," he added.
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Nicolas said that R worked as an employee at the outlet. He stole 27 victims' personal data with the intention of applying for work. The personal data that has been collected is used to guarantee loans which result in victims suffering losses of up to IDR 1 billion.
"So with this method he got approximately 27 victims, and the loss amounted to more than IDR 1 billion," he said.
This case of misuse of personal data is still being investigated by the police. Nicolas explained that currently his party has taken various actions regarding this case. Including examining 6 witnesses.
"Currently investigators have examined 6 witnesses (in this case the victims), and then summoned the Reported Party to take their statements as witnesses," he said.
"To date, our examination of the witnesses shows that reported R did it alone," added Nicolas.
Previously, the victim had submitted a report to the East Jakarta Police on July 5. One of the victims, Muhammad Lutfi (31) told about the process that he knew about the misuse of this data.
data on 27 applicants for loan
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At that time, without the permission and knowledge of Lutfi and the other applicants, it turned out that R had installed a certain application on the victim's cellphone. As a result, suddenly there were online loan and credit bill transactions from various platforms. Suddenly the victims felt shocked by the notification, even though they felt they had never taken any action.
"Suddenly there were 'online' loan and credit billing transactions, namely Shopeepay later, Adakami, Home Kredit, Kredivo, Akulaku and others. Meanwhile, we, the victims, never submitted these transactions," he concluded, as reported by antarnews.com.
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