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...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda believes that a bigger crackdown on online lending and investment scams is coming sooner than later, thanks to President Duterte's expected signing of the Financial Consumer Protection (FCP) Act. (Maxim Ilyahov/ Unsplash) “I am told by sources in the Palace...
The Pasig City local government unit (LGU) warned residents on Wednesday, March 9, of fake news and scams after a post about a supposed government-sponsored job fair went viral on social media. The city’s Public Information Office (PIO) released an advisory concerning an unverified Facebook page...
66229 Most Filipinos, 65 percent of participants in Kaspersky's latest digital payment systems survey, changed the passwords on their bank or digital wallet accounts and apps when they fall victim to online fraud. On the other hand, half of surveyed Filipino victims of online scammers and...
Stressing that online scammers posing as sellers should be imprisoned, President Duterte on Monday, Feb. 14, told Filipinos to avoid buying online for now. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his regular public address on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (RTVM Screenshot) “I am advising the Filipinos (to)...
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...
pldt-smart-2016 The number of domains used by digital scammers dropped significantly in the past three days after PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) blocked websites that lured people to fraudulent ‘job hiring’ schemes. At the start of this SMS-based scam, the telcos' cybercrime...
WAYS-TO-STOP-SMS-SPAM-ON-iPhone-Android-HERES-HOW-1 Spam and phishing attacks tripled from June this year, with the month of November posting the highest number and 600 mobile numbers blocked on a daily average, according to the investigation units of PLDT and Smart Communications Inc....
