Scam Watch Pilipinas opens online scam reporting site

Reporting an online scam in the Philippines is now as easy as 1,2,3.

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Scam Watch Pilipinas makes reporting online scams more accessible, convenient

Scam Watch Pilipinas recently launched www.scamwatchpilipinas.com which Filipinos can easily access via their mobile phone browser to report online scams. This aims to make reporting online scams to the government more accessible and convenient for the public.

The group said the website's reporting features are linked to the Inter-Agency Response Center (I-ARC) operated by the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC).

The highlights of the main page of the Scam Watch Pilipinas website are special buttons that can directly lead the user’s mobile phone into calling the I-ARC Hotline 1326 and other numbers such as 0947-714-7105 (SMART), 0966-976-5971 (Globe), and 0991-481-4225 (DITO), Scam Watch Pilipinas said.

It also has a button that directly leads to the reporting chat interface of CICC using Facebook Messenger, powered by an AI called Cyri.

Follow these steps to report a possible online scam:

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We started promoting the I-ARC Hotline 1326 to create an awareness for Filipinos where and how to report online scam by leading them to the CICC’s I-ARC channels with our 1326 education campaign. The next step is to make reporting of cyber fraud for the people easy by simply going to our website using their mobile phones and report in just one click, said Scam Watch Pilipinas co-founder and co-lead convenor Jocel de Guzman.

CICC Executive Director Undersecretary Alexander Ramos welcomed the new initiative of Scam Watch Pilipinas.

We want people to report incidents of cybercrime to the I-ARC channels. We made sure that the I-ARC, being operated by CICC, is fully equipped with enough manpower and the right technology to handle the complaints of online scam victims using our reporting channels, Ramos said.

Click here to access the website.

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