Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A family was deceived when buying eggs through a buying and selling service on social media, namely Facebook. This happened when they installed malicious software which burned Rp. 1.7 billion in cash in an instant.
Even though it seems trivial, you need to be very careful when buying anything via online applications. This new type of fraud uses software to drain victims of their money.
This can happen when buying via an online application, the page may suddenly move to another application or website that you don't actually want to open. This needs to be avoided because it can trap you and unknowingly siphon money from your bank account.
Reported by Detikcom, the emergence of malicious software or often called malware can come at any time. Make sure you don't press any suspicious links or buttons, if you don't want to suffer losses like this family.
Meanwhile, according to the independent.sg report, Mrs Singh initially saw an advertisement on Facebook about organic eggs. She and her husband placed their order on November 26th. The order directs them to a chat on WhatsApp. They placed an order with a figure called 'Jason'. This man is suspected of being the seller of the eggs.
Jason then asked the couple to make a deposit on the 60 organic eggs they ordered. Jason sent a link to download the app. Once the app has finished downloading, it then shows a payment page similar to the UOB payment system.
Knowing this, Mr Singh logged in with his UOB bank account. After paying, initially it said transaction failed. After he informed Jason of this, Mr Singh intended to just cancel the order. However, Jason revealed that they would send the eggs directly on the same day.
The following day, UOB called Mr Singh regarding a transaction on his credit card, which Mr Singh never did again after learning that the transaction had failed. However, when Mr Singh checked his bank account again, he realized that all the money in his savings had just disappeared.
The application, which had made money from four of Mr Singh's registered bank accounts and credit cards, simply vanished. According to a Channel News Asia report, S$15,000 (Rp. 1.7 billion) of transactions were made by Mr Singh on his UOB account, and nearly S$30,000 (Rp. 3.5 billion) was taken from his DBS account.
Mr Singh revealed that he did not receive any notifications, alerts or OTP codes from his bank account. Suddenly, S$150,000 or around Rp. 1.7 billion just disappeared.
This was a major blow to Mr Singh's family. He also described his reaction that at that time he felt like he wanted to become a zombie because he didn't know what to do.
“The bank has to take responsibility, at least partial responsibility. I was not the one who took the money and just gave it to the fraudster. I wasn't even aware of this,” explained Mr Singh to CNA, quoted Saturday (30/12/2023).
Until now it is not known whether Mr Singh received assistance or responsibility from the bank, or whether the Rp. 1.7 billion belonging to Mr Singh and his family was actually stolen. Problems related to malware applications have also occurred before. The victim previously downloaded an application filled with malware and lost S$99,800 or around 1,168,151,894.24.
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