PORTALJABAR, BANDUNG CITY - The Task Force for Eradicating Illegal Financial Activities or Task Force PASTI in January 2024 again blocked 233 illegal online loan entities on a number of websites and applications as well as 78 contents of personal loan offers (pinpri), which have the potential to harm the public and violate data dissemination provisions personal.

Secretariat of the Task Force for Eradicating Illegal Financial Activities Hudiyanto said, from 2017 to January 31 2024, the Task Force had stopped 8,460 illegal financial entities consisting of 1,218 illegal investment entities, 6,991 illegal online loan/pinpri entities, and 251 illegal pawn entities.

"The SURE Task Force reminds the public to be careful, vigilant and not to use illegal online loans or personal loans because they have the potential to harm society, including the risk of misuse of borrowers' personal data," said Hudiyanto, Thursday (15/2/2024).

Hudiyanto stated that at the beginning of 2024, the PASTI Task Force would also remind the public to be wary of fraud using part-time job vacancies which has been rampant recently. "These activities are increasingly circulating in society and are detrimental to the victims," he added.

"The perpetrator's method was to ask the victim to do a job to like and subscribe to a post on social media. After carrying out the first mission, the victim earned income and was then invited to join a chat group," he said.

"Next, the perpetrator asked the victim to make a deposit and carry out further missions. The perpetrator promised that after the mission was fulfilled and completed well, the victim would get the deposit back along with the promised reward ," added Hudiyanto.

Hudiyanto explained that at the next job, the perpetrator again asked for an additional deposit from the victims, but after some time the perpetrator ran away or disappeared, taking the victim's money with him.

"Victims are deceived by the promise of getting quick rewards from part-time work. The public is expected to be wary of this method and other modes of fraud," he explained.

Hudiyanto admitted that eradicating illegal financial activities really requires support and participation from the community, in the form of caution and vigilance in accepting offers from irresponsible parties.

"Make sure you always pay attention to two important aspects, namely Legal and Logical (2L). Legal means ensuring that the product or service being offered has the right business permit from the supervising authority/institution. Logical means always paying attention to the results or profits offered, whether they are logical or not," he explained.

Hudiyanto asked the public who find information or offers for online investment and loans that are suspicious or suspected of being illegal or that offer the promise of high (illogical) returns/interest to report it to the OJK Contact with telephone number 157, WA (081157157157), email: [email protected] or email: [email protected]. (No/Guh)