3 articles tagged with “Indonesia scams”
Indonesia's e-wallet ecosystem moves over a billion transactions a month, and scammers have built a small industry around emptying those wallets. Most successful e-wallet fraud in 2026 doesn't break the apps. It breaks the user. Here is the playbook, the technical layer, and the fixes that actually matter.
Indonesia's IASC received 432,637 fraud reports tied to WhatsApp between November 2024 and January 2026, with combined losses of Rp 9.1 trillion. Most of those started with a single six-digit code. Here is exactly how the takeover works, why your friends keep falling for it, and what actually stops it.
Indonesian regulators shut down 951 illegal loan apps in just the first three months of 2026. The apps don't just charge predatory interest — they harvest your contacts, photos, and location, then weaponize that data when you can't pay. Here's how the racket actually works, from someone watching it from inside Indonesia.