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Arrest of Cyber Fraud Group in Bali: Inside the Scam Operations
Jul 5, 2024
Indonesian authorities have arrested more than one hundred immigrants in connection with cyber fraud In a raid on a villa in the tourist island of Bali police found hundreds of phones and electronic devices
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Indonesian authorities have arrested
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more than 100 immigrants in connection
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with cyber fraud in a raid on a villa in
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tour in the tourist island of barley
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police found hundreds of phones and
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electronic devices the group is accused
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of abusing immigration permits and
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conducting online scams targeting people
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in nearby Malaysia officials say they
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haven't formally arrested anyone in the
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group because the crimes fall outside of
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their jurisdiction while I spoke to the
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journalist M Suma in Jakarta about the
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arrest
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103 Taiwanese nationalist being arrested
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in in the island of Bali uh which under
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the charge that they violated the
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immigration law because they have work
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without permit in that island and other
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than that uh they don't have any case
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they don't have any crime conducted in
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Indonesia in under Indonesian
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jurisdictions they are targeted to uh
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people in Malaysia especially the
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Chinese in Malaysia because they speak
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the same language at that to the
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population over there and this is a huge
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operations scam actually is going on
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from the island of valy and then um now
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the Indonesian government decided just
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to deport them from the island and
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sending the back to their country uh
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under uh who uh they themselves or their
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family has to pay the price to give them
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back to uh their own country Taiwan so
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so this is difficult for the authorities
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isn't it they can't actually arrest and
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charge anybody just explain
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why yeah this is because because the the
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the the crime is not in Indonesia is not
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targeting Indonesian citizens uh and it
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increasingly this kind of uh crimes is
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going on internationally so I think uh
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this kind of group is
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increasingly uh common right now uh
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across the country so you you you uh
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Target it you you do the crime in
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another country but you operate it from
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another country So within the law I
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think it it it's really difficult to
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reach this kind of people and have there
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been any calls perhaps for the law to be
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changed after
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this uh yeah but I think uh the
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international police or the anti-me
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internationalist like Interpol should be
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involved in this because I also heard
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that some of
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Indonesians uh doing uh online gambling
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and and operating uh a huge uh stamps uh
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from a Thai Cambodia border so there's a
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lot of Indonesian is near near that
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border uh also uh doing this kind of
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business targeting Indonesians citizen
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so nothing can the authorities over
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there do about this kind of people
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