U.S. agents to probe cyber crime

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)