Financial application GCash on Thursday said it helped the government to arrest fake online seller and blocked over 900,000 fraud accounts in support of the government’s campaign against online scammers.
GCash said the suspect and fraud accounts are believed to be behind the “anomalous transactions consummated” by the suspects with their victims on social media and digital storefronts.
It said the suspect sent her identification card including her parent’s IDs to gain the victim's trust. The victim sent P4,500 as an initial payment for the mobile phone which never arrived. The suspect was caught in an entrapment operation by the Cyber Response Unit and the PNP-ACG, with marked boodle money amounting to P5,000 in Quezon City.
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