The Department of Justice (DOJ) has received almost 5,000 reports of harassment or unlawful debt collection from 2020 to 2022, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said Monday.
During a media briefing on the SIM Card Registration Act, Remulla said the agency’s Office of Cybercrime received a total of 4,899 reports of harassment and unlawful debt collection from online lending companies, where the harassment was done through phone calls or text messages.
Meanwhile, Remulla hoped that offenders and victims of online sexual abuse and exploitation of children may be identified easier through the measure. “Ibinalita ng Globe telecom noong Setyembre na umabot sa 784-M scams at spams messages ang ikinailangan nilang i-block,” Interior Undersecretary Margarita Gutierrez said in the briefing.Meanwhile, she said Smart blocked 51 million text scams in one month.According to Remulla, the implementing rules and regulation of the Sim Card Registration Act is not etched in stone.
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