inp.polri.go.id – Jakarta. Cases of fraudulent investments continue to take their toll, even though the police have handled dozens of fraudulent investment reports, there are still victims of fraudulent investments.
The amount of loss was also huge, from hundreds of billions to even trillions of rupiah. The temptation of being rich in a short time, makes people easily attracted to fraudulent investments.
In January, the Director of the Tipideksus Bareskrim at the National Police Headquarters reported that they have handled 18 fraudulent investment cases, with various methods. Of these cases, some have P21 while others are still in the process of being investigated.
Recently binary options are the most frequent case that is happening. Victims of binary options investment are busy reporting this investment to the Police.
These fraudulent cases do not happen only in Jakarta, but also in various regions. Various reports have flowed to the police regarding fraudulent investments. Including illegal online trading, illegal stock trading, forex trading, savings and loans cooperatives, and so on.
Economist and Management expert, Rheinald Kasali said that currently, the "cheats are very clever" in their way of working. They work with affiliates who claim to be traders who always flaunt their wealth, claimed because of their success in trading, but there is no truth in that.
People who are having economic difficulties, psychologically tend to be attracted. They view the offerings from those fraudulent investments as saviors. This was conveyed by Rheinald Kasali as quoted from BBC Indonesia.
Rheinald Kasali advised the public to be careful and stay vigilant to who is the person introduced and propagate the investment. If it seems too good to be true, most likely it is a scam.
What becomes a problem is, sometimes the success stories of these affiliates appear on TV shows or podcasts, thus obscuring the line which is the real investment.
Rheinald Kasali predicts that there are around 1 million people who are currently being deceived, due to the influence of people who do flexing (the act of showing off wealth) who entice people to invest.
The existence of this scam under the guise of investment could cause a huge impact. This terrifies people who want to participate in economic recovery by becoming investors. They worry that they will be scammed.
Therefore, apart from legal action against fraudulent investors, it is time for all parties to work together by educating the public. Knowledge of public investment must be improved.
The steps to educate people by the police when they visit malls need to be supported. This step by the National Police (Polri) should also be supported by the Financial Services Authority (OJK), as the institution authorized to oversee the financial business cycle. Thus, the public has adequate investment literacy.
This step then needs to be spread through online media and social media, so that this fake investment chain can be broken off.
