Police made the arrests after being tipped off about suspicious activity at a rented home in Denpasar, the island’s capital.
“They pretended to be women by using women’s pictures and fake identity to ensnare their victims,“ Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya told a press conference.
They chatted up their victims through the Telegram messenger app and sent them fake links.
The suspects, all Indonesians, face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty of violating the country’s electronic transaction law.
In 2019, Indonesian police arrested 85 Chinese nationals and six Indonesians over an online scam that tricked victims out of millions of dollars.
Many of the victims were public officials, police said.
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