DAVAO CITY – A Davao City councilor has warned over a growing number of fraudulent Facebook pages posing as legitimate resorts, rest houses, and function venues and urged the people to be more cautious during the holidays. Public Works and Highways Committee chairperson Jessica Bonguyan said...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government has begun broadcasting extensive video on state television of its crackdown on online scam centers, showing buildings being bulldozed and over 1,000 foreigners detained. Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations that target people all...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government extended its crackdown on online scam activities to a second major location, detaining hundreds of foreigners and seizing thousands of mobile phones used to carry out the fraud, state media reported Wednesday. Myanmar is notorious for hosting...
A teachers’ group on Thursday, November 13, raised the alarm over a “surge” in suspicious emails targeting public school teachers’ official Department of Education (DepEd) accounts, warning educators to stay vigilant against phishing scams as the year-end bonus season approaches. The...
Some 170 distressed Filipinos are still waiting for repatriation from scam hubs across Southeast Asia, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday, Nov. 12. DFA spokesperson Angelica Escalona said these Filipinos in scam hub areas have “active requests for assistance” from the...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) assured the families of the 14 Filipinos rescued from a scam hub in Myanmar that the Philippines government is exerting “all efforts” for their safe return to the country. DFA spokesperson Angelica Escalona said in a text message to reporters on Thursday,...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Authorities are seeking to formally arrest most of the 64 South Koreans repatriated from Cambodia for allegedly working for online scam organizations in Cambodia, police said Monday. The 64 South Koreans were detained in Cambodia over the past several months and were...
A 78.44 percent rise in scam calls was recorded in the Philippines in the third quarter of 2025, data from the latest Whoscall Scam Report of global anti-scam app developer Gogolook showed. During the period, Whoscall said it logged a total of 62,390 scam calls, a sharp increase from 34,964 in the...
The Pasig Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 158 on Wednesday, Oct. 1, convicted Janet Lim Napoles, the alleged mastermind of the 2013 Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam or “pork barrel” scam, on 13 counts of money laundering. The case was jointly initiated and prosecuted by the...
CEBU CITY – The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) warned the public of dubious text messages warning individuals of existing arrest warrants against them. The PRO-7 confirmed that a number of individuals have complained that they received text messages, reminding them to take action...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Monday, Sept. 22, warned that fraudsters are impersonating Secretary Vince Dizon and other officials to steal money and personal information. The scammers reportedly would contact citizens through phone calls, sometimes claiming to be Dizon or...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Education- Negros Island Region (DepEd-NIR) urged learners and teachers to stay vigilant after four junior high school students were scammed by a man posing as a DepEd employee in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. DepEd–NIR Public Information Officer Almyr...
