Three men allegedly promoting SIM playing cards with verified GCash accounts were arrested by authorities in separate operations in Quezon Metropolis.

In accordance to Jun Veneracion’s epic on “24 Oras” on Monday, the Nationwide Bureau of Investigation (NBI) believes suspects Jeffrey Ilagan, Jay Cortez, and Kevin Maboloc were leisurely the masses of verified accounts being ragged for online scams.

“Same identification but different records data. These accounts, this is the root trigger why scamming activities are increasing in the Philippines,” NBI Cybercrime Division chief Jeremy Lotoc talked about.

(Same identification but different recordsdata. These accounts are the muse trigger for the develop in scamming activities in the country.)

“We strive to label the yarn, we can no longer see the field because the recordsdata that is embedded is fraudulent,” he talked about.

(We strive to label the yarn but we are able to now no longer gape the field as a result of their embedded recordsdata became fraudulent.)

Nevertheless the suspects talked about they merely wait on as the middlemen of of us that were growing the false accounts.

“I was forced because I was really short on money… I thought it was only used in the online casino, when I found out that many people have been corrupted because of it, I also want to cooperate with the NBI,” one among the suspects talked about.

(I became compelled to invent this as a result of my financial field. I belief they were the use of this for online casinos but when I learned rather about a of us suffered as a result of this, I determined to coordinate with the NBI.)

NBI deputy director Jun de Guzman talked about the agency would no longer let the case “ride unabated” and would take care of it as many of us acquire fallen victim to online scams.

For its allotment, GCash appropriate place of job chief Maricor Adriano talked about the e-wallet application is now growing safety features to assemble certain the security of its users.

“We have what is called double safe. Our faces will be scanned, so we can peek who could well presumably own that yarn. In other words, even if they could well presumably have obtained your OTP, or your MPin, or could well presumably magazine-takeover of yarn, he won’t be a hit, because his face is different, the real could well presumably-owner will be seen,” she talked about.

(We acquire now what we call ‘double safe’. The application will scan your face and peek the owner. This implies that even when the suspects will win your OTP or MPin, they would possibly be able to’t steal over your yarn as a result of the face verification honest.)—Sundy Locus/LDF, GMA Constructed-in Data