CEBU CITY, Philippines -- The Regional Anti-Cyber Crime Unit in Central Visayas (RACU-7) Police is urging netizens to report to Facebook duplicate accounts that started surfacing last June 7,
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Regional Anti-Cyber Crime Unit in Central Visayas Police is urging netizens to report to Facebook duplicate accounts that started surfacing last June 7, 2020.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Artemio Ricabo, deputy chief of RACU-7, told reporters on Monday morning, June 8, that it would be easier if the real account owners would immediately report the fake duplicate accounts to the social networking site than going through RACU-7.He said that as of this time, RACU-7 is still investigating and tracing the hackers behind the creation of the dummy accounts.
“Usually dummy accounts are hard to trace as anybody could make an account of somebody. That is why we rely on Facebook so that if there is a fake account, they would be able to delete it,” said Ricarbo.According to Ricarbo, if these fake accounts will not be reported, it maybe used to scam other people.
Ricarbo assured that they will also be doing their part in looking into those who might be behind the creation of the dummy accounts. /bmjoThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.
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