THE Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) on Monday disclosed that they are monitoring four social media pages suspected of complicity in online scams.
ACG chief Brig. Gen. Bernard Yang said during a press briefing in Camp Crame, Quezon City, that they are closely watching four Meta pages using his name and image, as well as the PNP-ACG in illegal cyber activities.
“As far as I know, there are four of them, one of whom we are just waiting for to file the case. This is also the one who is using my name and photo as well as the ACG so that they can deceive people,” Yang said.
“We received a report that a person already paid P10,000 to one of this pages, apparently that person is one of my classmates,” he added.
Yang admonished netizens to protect their internet accounts especially their Facebook profiles to prevent identity theft.
“The pictures used by these online scammers were all from the Facebook pages of the ACG, so we urge the people to lock their profiles in Facebook to prevent these kind of actions,” he said.
The ACG chief also said they are coordinating with online payment outlets, as well as with Meta for the information regarding the transactions and personal information of the account holder.
Yang said that they were working diligently to curb unlawful online operations.
“I know that we are undermanned, but the ACG will not stop protecting our people from cybercrime as well as we will always be ready for these kind of threat,” he said.
The PNP-ACG also recorded a 30 percent decrease for core cybercrimes for the Sept. 1-25 this year, compared to last year’s entrapment operations which led to the arrest of about 100 suspects through
