While the biggest benefit is joining a VIP shipment, meaning having a VIP account, members can get a shipment of 10 to 30 percent of the total purchase price of certain products.
Since Jombingo’s business license is registered with the Ministry of Commerce, Communications and Informatics and offers high profits, Icha dared to join since April 2023. With the same fate as Bila, Icha also lost hundreds of millions of rupees.
“Indeed, the initial capital was small, but why was there more and more profits, the higher the profits. It didn’t take long before I wanted to take over the balance but why couldn’t I. It turned out that all members had the same fate”, Icha said.
Because of this case, Bila and Icha, along with 20 other members, reported this fraud case to the National Police Headquarters.
“Well they said they would be processed in two weeks. However, we are still awaiting government attention when the permits are issued, but there is no oversight,” lamented Icha.
Beware of very strange offers
In response, the Indonesian E-Commerce Association (idEA) urged e-commerce customers to be careful.
This follows the Jombingo e-commerce application fraud case which cost users hundreds of millions of rupiah.
idEA Chairman Bima Laga believes that at first glance the scheme used in the Jombingo scam is a Ponzi scheme or a money game and scam. This scam allows someone to steal personal information in order to misuse it.
“This scam is a deceptive scheme whose sole purpose is to steal money or goods or personal information from the victim. Therefore, the public needs to be even more cautious, and clarity and confirmation on some product or offer is important,” Bima said when contacted by Kompas.com, Thursday (07/06/2023).
“We also actively encourage our members to be wary of tempting online offers involving cash requests involving users’ personal information,” Bima continued.
Bima also confirmed that Jombingo is not a member of iDea, although transactions in Jombingo are identical to those in other e-commerce, namely selling and buying goods.
