 Later Pitung invited his friends Dji-ih, Rais, and Jebul to rob Hadji Sapiudin, a wealthy landowner who lived northeast of Batavia, on 30 July 1892.One telling has it that the four men posed as civil servants and stated that Sapiudin was under investigation for fraud, but offered to keep his money in safekeeping.Sapiudin surrendered the money, unaware that he was being conned.