Local fraudsters used a popular e-wallet, GCash, and Viber, an online messaging platform, to harvest the names of subscribers in the latest scams plaguing the public, according to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
“Our initial investigation showed that criminals may have acquired or
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) continues to dig deeper into the recent text scams that have been plaguing the public lately. Based on the investigation conducted by its Cyber Security Operations Group (CSOG), the messages are being sent by individual SIMs and do not come from aggregators or their clients.
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National Bureau of Investigation National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Officer-in-Charge Director Eric B. Distor has appointed Christopher M. Paz as head of the agency’s Cybercrime Division (NBI-CCD). Acting NBI-CCD Chief Michelle Valdez now heads the NBI’s Digital Forensic Laboratory (NBI-DFL