President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Thursday, June 22, said that the country’s “best defense” against online scammers are “knowledgeable consumers” who are able to determine scam methods. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office) In a...
Online job platform JobStreet by SEEK has warned job seekers against offers via messaging apps and other social media platforms, as these alternative way of finding employment opportunities have also become channels for fake job offers. “Our team’s mission doesn't just end in providing support...
The extension of the SIM card registration last April would serve as the “last chance” for scammers to register numbers and come up with new methods, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy said on Tuesday, May 16. Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)...
A scourge of these tech-driven times, scam call centers have proliferated, like a viral infection that threatens not only to destroy a body, but intends to infect an entire society. Scam call centers do a myriad of illicit activities, usually implemented by people who were illegally recruited or...
The spread of text scams will be drastically reduced once the SIM Registration law is “fully implemented,” said Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary Anna Mae Lamentillo on Friday, March 17. In a “Laging Handa” public briefing, Lamentillo said the...
EDITORS DESK Warning! Cybercriminals are always out there looking for someone to scam. This Christmas, expect them to find creative ways to lure victims to believe that what they are presenting are legitimate business offers. To attract you, cybercriminals want you to think that the messages are...
The most wonderful time of the year need not be the most horrific, traumatic, and exhausting experience of your life, especially when you get the shock upon discovering that your credit card has already been “maxed out” with purchases that you didn’t do. It is this time of the year that the...
Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos is surprised with the deluge of scam and spam text messages that he has been receiving following the enactment of Republic Act (RA) No.11934 or the SIM Registration Act. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep.Sandro Marcos (PPAB)...
Senator Rafael ‘’Raffy’’ Tulfo today, Aug. 22, scored the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for its failure to act on numerous reports of scams reported to him by victims of so-called multi-level marketing (MLM) and networking companies on consumers by promising them exhorbitant...
NTC Alarmed at the upsurge of fake job text scams, the National Telecommunications Commission has ordered the country's biggest telecommunications firms to warn their subscribers not to be fooled by the fraudulent schemes. In a memo sent by the NTC for the second straight week to DITO Telecommunity...
Senator Grace Poe has called on the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to increase their efforts to halt rampant text scams victimizing many unsuspecting mobile phone users in the country Poe, chairwoman of the Senate...
Cybercriminals target 3.13 million unemployed Filipinos and 7.42 million underemployed job-seekers to sell their personal information - name, birthday, phone number and email address, for $10 each on the dark web, according to cybersecurity firm. Kaspersky said that once these data are in the hands...
