Heaptalk, Jakarta — The Financial Services Authority (OJK) announced that the banking industry, including BTPN, has blocked 6,000 accounts suspected of being involved in online gambling transactions.
In response, Darmadi Sutanto, Deputy President Director of Bank BTPN, stated that the bank has established a fraud management team tasked with monitoring suspicious transactions. “ How do online gamblers usually transact? Oh, they have many transactions every day or something like that. We use such parameters,” Darmadi said in Jakarta on Monday (08/12).
Although the suspicious accounts have been flagged as potentially involved in online gambling, the fraud management team does not immediately close these accounts. Darmadi explained, “If someone makes many small transactions daily, it could still be legitimate, not necessarily online gambling. But we set the parameters. We don’t close the account right away.”
The next step involves the fraud management team continuing to monitor the activity of accounts flagged for online gambling transactions. In this case, BTPN uses a system capable of detecting millions of transactions every day.
Approximately 20 Jenius accounts have been requested to be blocked due to suspected online gambling use. “I can’t recall the exact number, but I remember that these are personal accounts, not corporate ones,” he added.
Furthermore, Darmadi explained that the discovery of these gambling accounts was based on a letter from the Financial Services Authority (OJK) requesting banks to block these accounts. “The findings have been addressed with the blocking of these accounts,” he concluded.
