JAKARTA, Oct 2 (NNN-ANTARA) – Police have arrested four Indonesian hackers, on suspicion of an international scam that harmed companies in South Korea and China’s Taiwan, involving a total of 84.8 billion rupiahs (about 5.94 million U.S. dollars), a police officer said yesterday.
The Indonesian Police’s Director of Cyber, Brigadier General Asep Edi Suheri, said, the suspects sent fake emails with notification of a change in the account number of a company to its partners.
“Then the company’s partners transfer the fund to that account,” Suheri explained.
With this Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud scheme that has been carried out since last year, a food and beverage company, SW in South Korea, lost 82 billion rupiahs (about 5.74 million dollars), while a technology company, WWHF in China’s Taiwan, lost 2.8 billion rupiahs (about 200,000 dollars).
The police have secured evidence, namely 29 billion rupiahs (about two million dollars) in cash, two mobile phones, 14 automatic teller machine cards, and a number of fake company data.
The suspects, identified as CT, NTS, YH, and SA, have been arrested, and the police are still looking for a number of other suspects.– NNN-ANTARA
