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A whole-of-society strategy is needed to effectively address the persistent scam attacks victimizing individuals and businesses, consumer advocacy group CitizenWatch Philippines stressed amid the emergence of new malicious tactics targeting internet users.
“We reiterate our call for all sectors to unite against online scammers. We must be informed, stay vigilant, and behave responsibly in the digital world as we are expected to be while offline in the real world,” Oxales said. “Scammers are employing devious tactics that will deceive their target to engage imposter accounts that will lead to malicious links with malware, clone branded advertisements to trick users to purchase the fake products, and offering job opportunities that are too good to be true,” Oxales said.
The results revealed the Philippines with the highest scam rate at 35.9 percent more than mainland China at 26.2 percent. The Philippine National Police data recorded 19,000 cybercrimes in 2023, which is an increase by 68.98 percent compared to 2022. Majority of the cases were online scams with 14,030 cases, higher by 7,208 incidents or 94.64 percent from the previous year.
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