During 2019, the National Police received a number of reports related to cyber crimes. Based on data collection results, the most common cyber crime that occurred during 2019 was fraud. The National Police received 1,617 reports related to fraud out of a total of 4,586 reports received. The second position is occupied by criminal acts of defamation with a total of 1,333 reports. Apart from that, the Cyber Crime Directorate, Bareskrim Polri, also saw a similar trend in the number of complaints sent via the patrolisiber.id site. There were 848 complaints regarding fraudulent practices in cyberspace and 151 complaints regarding defamation.

There are various media used by fraudsters to carry out their actions, such as email, websites, social media, telecommunications. Reports of fraud via email during 2019 amounted to 61 police reports with total losses reaching more than 144 billion rupiah so that this mode was recorded as the fraud mode with the most losses during 2019. Dittipidsiber Bareskrim Polri found that victims of fraud via email were often trapped by fake emails that sent by the perpetrator. The contents of the messages sent to victims are quite varied, some pretend to offer gifts, offer jobs, and even pretend to be customer service from popular application services. The perpetrator exploited the victim's carelessness as a way to gain as much profit as possible. Not only money, perpetrators can also take a number of victims' personal information which can be reused for other criminal purposes.

Judging from the amount of loss, the method of fraud via the website is in second place with the amount of loss reaching more than 73 billion rupiah. Specifically for this method, the perpetrator targets users of e-commerce sites that provide online buying and selling features. Even though the number of losses is not as large as the previous method, this method is the one most frequently reported by the public. The National Police's Cyber Crime Directorate, Bareskrim, received 351 reports regarding this method. Although the amounts tend to be large, the number of reported losses tends to be smaller than fraud using email. In this case, the method used by the perpetrator is to take over the user's account. In their actions, perpetrators can use computer techniques and social engineering. Social engineering is a psychological manipulation technique carried out so that the victim believes that he is in a situation created by the perpetrator. For example, a perpetrator could pretend to be an employee of a popular application company that needs the victim's personal information. When they succeed in getting the victim's information and making the victim believe it, they will ask for the one time password (OTP) that is entered on the victim's cellphone when there is a change in the information on the victim's account. Most of the time, the victim directly gives the code to the perpetrator. Therefore, when the perpetrator succeeds in taking over the victim's account, the perpetrator will immediately take the entire balance which is converted into various forms, such as credit, clothes, gadgets, and so on. The perpetrators resold the conversion results to get some money.

For this reason, so that we can always provide information regarding the modes of cybercrime that are widespread in Indonesia, the public also needs to continue to report any indications of cybercrime practices in their environment via the Patrolisiber.id portal.