Tag page - ONLINE LOVE SCAMS

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the heads of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Tuesday, Feb. 6, warned Filipinos against the dangers of love scams on the internet.   During a Palace press briefing, PNP chief General Benjamin...

media One in two, or 45 percent of people surveyed in the Philippines and Southeast Asia (SEA), lost money to online love scams, according to a recent Kaspersky study. The oldest and loneliest group lost the most - over half a million pesos, from online romance fraud. Specifically, the two oldest...