ANTICYBERCRIME Senior Insp.Artemio Cinco, spokesperson for the Philippine National PoliceAnti-Cybercrime Group at Camp Crame, checks love scam cases developing on dating sites and Facebook. —PHOTO BY LYN RILLON (Last of two parts) Anyone among the 67 million Filipinos and the tens of millions of other people who are logged on…
The number of cases of violence against women and children in the country doubled during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Nearly 700 cases of violence against women and children (VACW) were filed in court throughout Northern Mindanao alone this year, but the…
Jennifer Su via Flickr Online, it’s hard to tell who’s fake and who’s real. An estimated one of every 10 dating profiles online are fake, and more than $50 million is lost to romance scams annually, according to the FBI. Online dating site Seeking Arrangement deletes more than 600 fake accounts…
This file photo shows a keyboard STAR/ File MANILA, Philippines (Updated 7:05 p.m.) —Interior Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. warned the public against love scams as Valentine’s Day approaches. In a press conference at Malacañang on Tuesday, Abalos said that Valentine’s Day could be used by syndicates to pull off love scams. “Tinitignan nila (syndicates)…
With the approach of the day of hearts, government agencies led by the Philippine National Police, the Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center are warning the public against love scams. In fact the love scams have been around for a long time now,…
Gaza first became viral when he spent for a billboard in Morayta, Manila asking for a coffee date with actress Erich Gonzales, who declined. The STAR/Marc Jayson Cayabyab MANILA, Philippines — Self-confessed scammer Christian Albert “Xian” Gaza surrendered to the Malabon City police yesterday after two Malabon courts ordered his…
BUFFALO, NY, December 16, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ — Filipino2date.com is a new dating site for guys searching for a Filipino woman for marriage.The site stands on the shoulders of RedSquareCupid who, for ten years, have been running two very successful dating sites filled with profiles of women from Eastern Europe. Filipino2date.com…
A Twitter user’s harrowing tale of alleged “catfishing” supposedly perpetuated by a budding multimedia artist and filmmaker triggered other victims to speak about their similar experiences of the elaborate online scheme. Cambridge dictionary defines catfishing as “the practice of pretending on social media to be someone different, in order to trick or attract another person.” In a series of tweets, a transwoman interior design student…
As long as social media and online dating apps exist, there will always be catfishing. And Netflix’s latest viral documentary The Tinder Swindler has made a compelling case study of one particularly notorious catfish. Catfishing is a term that originated from a 2010 documentary of the same name. It is…
Securities and exchange Commission warns public against online scammers who offer fake investments. (File image from REUTERS) Filipinos lose about a billion pesos a year in scams online. This amount was given by Department of Information and Communications Technology – Cybercrime Investigation Coordinating Center (DICT-CICC) Director Rojun Hosillos on Wednesday….
