U.S. agents to probe cyber crime

YOGYAKARTA (JP): U.S. special agents are scheduled to come to Indonesia to investigate cyber crime cases in Indonesia, an IT consultant for the National Police said here yesterday.

Roy Suryo, who is also a multimedia lecturer at Gadjah Mada University and the Indonesian Fine Arts Institute, told The Jakarta Post that the special agents had confirmed their visits to Jakarta and other cities early next month.

"We have not been informed what date they will come, but the National Police Information Center told me that they will be here with lists of credit cards numbers of U.S. residents that have allegedly been used by Indonesian 'carders'," he said. "We will match the data to complete the suspects' dossiers."

"Carders" is the term for people who fraudulently use other people's credit card numbers for purchasing goods through the Internet.

"They are really thieves," he said. "They would become big- headed if we called them hackers. Frankly, they are just like burglars who break into somebody's house after obtaining the key. They get the credit card numbers by exchanging them among themselves through the Internet," he said.

Roy confessed that he strongly supported the police to solve these cases, "I have grown impatient watching what carders have done. So, I gave the police officers tips on tracing them," he said. (23)