The fraudster took advantage of a ‘deluge of text messages’ to send several people a clickable phishing link, which allowed the scammer to access the accounts of affected users.
, he requested to link a device,” Gilda Maquilan, vice president for corporate communications of GCash, told the ABS-CBN News Channel on Wednesday, May 10. regular process to access the GCash. You have to have the MPIN, and you have to have the OTP, which the fraudster was able to acquire,” she explained in the interview on ANC’sMaquilan also confirmed that there was “definitely no hacking.” The impact would have been bigger had there been a hacking incident, she said.
Following this, GCash conducted a “preventive maintenance” to investigate the complaints and restore the account balances of affected users. During this period, the app remained inaccessible for several hours. The app was back online in the afternoon of Tuesday, May 9. Maquilan explained that although funds were indeed transferred from the accounts of some users to other banks, the money remained “intact” because GCash managed to trace and return amounts back to customers.kung nasaan ‘yung pera
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