SIM Swap Scam

Cases of illegal SIM card swaps ending in bank account theft have increased in the past year. Allegedly bank employees are involved.

Riky Ferdianto

January 18, 2021

ADRIAN Qamar and his wife, Yuliastriani, hurried to the Kebayoran Baru branch of Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) in Jakarta on Monday, August 24, 2020. The 54-year-old wished to check Yulistriani’s bank balance. A few days prior, Yulistriani coud not access her Indosat Ooredoo cellular phone card number which she had used to register three mobile banking accounts, one of them a BRI Mobile. 

What the BRI Bank personnel told them shocked th

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