The police managed to arrest a foreign citizen (WNA) from Bulgaria with the initials VT who committed a crime of skimming or data theft with special tools against Bank Riau Kepri customers.
The modus operandi of skimming or theft of electronic data that befell dozens of customers of Bank Riau Kepri is quite sophisticated.
This is because the perpetrators of VT WN Bulgaria, JP WNI, CC WNI, and A WNA who are included in the wanted list (DPO) used VIP Cards to break into customer money until the total loss totaled Rp. 800 million.
"This is a criminal act with a fairly sophisticated mode," said the Director of the Special Criminal Investigation Directorate (Ditreskrimsus) of the Riau Islands Police Kombes Teguh Widodo at the Riau Islands Police Headquarters, Wednesday (25/5/2022).
Teguh explained that the crimes committed by the three perpetrators were quite professional.
The suspects placed a chip card reader at an ATM belonging to Bank Riau Kepri.
"In addition, the perpetrators also installed and took Deep Insert Skimming and ATM card magnetic tape readers.
In addition, the three perpetrators also installed a closing device to press the pin, which looked as if the device belonged to Bank Riau Kepri," said Teguh.
When launching the action, the perpetrators recorded several customers who had made transactions.
Then take the customer's data and transfer it to a blank magnetic tape card commonly called an Alfamart card.
After the data is transferred, the data is reprocessed using an EDC tool, namely electronic data capture.
By using this tool, the perpetrator transfers the data that has been taken to a blank card.
It doesn't stop there, the card that has been filled with customer data is used by the perpetrators to withdraw funds or transfer money from other banks.
"One of the tools owned by the perpetrators is called a VIP Card, which is a blank magnetic card used by the perpetrators to carry out their actions," he said.
The perpetrators, continued Teguh, equipped themselves with sophisticated equipment. In addition, perpetrators also have the ability to perform data processing and data transcription.
For their actions, the three perpetrators face a maximum imprisonment of 7 years or a fine of IDR 700 million.
In addition, Article 51 Paragraph 2 in conjunction with Article 36 is also applied with a maximum imprisonment of 15 years or a maximum fine of Rp. 12 billion.
"From the results of the initial investigation and the internal investigation of Bank Riau Kepri, it is known that the loss of Rp 800 million from 50 skimming victims' customers," concluded Teguh.
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