inp.polri.go.id – Surabaya. Sub-Directorate V of Special Cyber Crime Investigation Unit of East Java Regional Police succeeded in apprehending a gang of credit card hackers or Carding. In this case, four people have been named as suspects.
“The four perpetrators of illegal access, they are interrelated and have their respective roles,” explained the East Java Regional Police’s Head of PR, Pol. Grand Commissioner Gatot Repli Handoko, at East Java Police Headquarter in Surabaya, Monday (06/07).
Pol. Grand Commissioner Gatot Repli Handoko explained that the case was revealed in early April 2021. At that time, the actions of the four suspects, namely HTS, AD, RH and RS, broke into several victims’ credit cards from abroad.
According to the East Java Regional Police Intermediary Officer, the four perpetrators who were designated as compact suspects spent the stolen proceeds through other people’s credit cards to buy Bitcoin. They claim to be tempted by the various things that Elon Musk’s company has to offer.
So, the suspect HTS is in charge of taking credit card accounts, then processing them. The processed products are bought with Bitcoin Crypto, said the Head of PR of East Java Regional Police.
Meanwhile, the East Java Regional Police’s Sub-directorate of Crime Investigation Unit, Grand Commissioner Attendant Zulham Effendi, added that the four suspects had their respective roles in action.
HTS as the coordinator of the other suspects, has the role of accommodating all data that can be used as a means of carrying out illegal access acts, starting to accommodate, send, and sell by buying Paxful Accounts (containing data belonging to other people)
AD as the executor processes various data sent from the HTS suspect to become a product that can be cashed out by receiving account data and email result data containing Credit Card Data (CC Data) belonging to another person from the HTS suspect.
As the data collector, RH has a role in finding credit card data to be sent to the suspected HTS and as a receiver for illegally accessed goods.
RS has a role as a provider of Paxful Accounts (data belonging to others) in the form of a marketplace or E-Wallet that functions to buy, sell, and store various cryptocurrencies, or digital currencies (Bitcoin) sent to HTS suspects.
Great Captain Zulham emphasized that the four cooperated and interacted with each other in carrying out their actions. The proceeds of the proceeds were used for the personal interests of each perpetrator.
“We hope that this case will serve as a lesson for network players throughout Indonesia not to do things like this. To be sure, they will process this credit card first. There is another role for the account to be given by HTS. The email data on the credit card is processed after it has economic value. Made to buy Bitcoin,” said Sub-Directorate of Crime Investigation Unit belonged to East Java Regional Police.
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