00:00The tech scams are getting less and less frequent after the POGOs were cut off according to some government agencies.
00:08POGOs are the best SIMs that are used for fraud.
00:14But why are they getting cut off even though there's a SIM registration law?
00:19That's what Joseph Moro is talking about.
00:21If your phones are quiet and you don't receive too many tech scams,
00:29that's because of the company and the ban against POGOs according to the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission or PAOC.
00:37Since the President was elected, we've received a lot of tech scams.
00:43The Department of Information and Communications Technology or DICT also received a lot of tech scams.
00:48When there was an order from the President for the immediate closure of the POGOs,
00:55the consumer complaints were also high.
00:58Our phones were shut down for scam promos and other types of scams.
01:05In PAOC raids on POGO hubs, thousands of SIM cards were confiscated.
01:11Last June, in a raid on a POGO in Las Pinas,
01:15more than 100,000 unregistered SIMs were confiscated.
01:20According to the PAOC, POGO hubs are the source of SIMs used in tech scams.
01:25Here, SIMs are bought by those behind the scams, for example, online loans.
01:32They know that POGOs are closing.
01:34That's their source of SIM cards, pre-registered SIM cards.
01:38They have machines.
01:40That registers the SIM?
01:42Yeah, that registers the SIM with fake identities.
01:47If it's sold to you, it's already registered.
01:51Each SIM is worth P500.
01:55It has fake identities.
01:58It's even legal for POGOs to get SIMs.
02:02Even the blank ones, the deactivated ones.
02:06It has numbers but it's not registered yet.
02:11It's the same with our legal Telcos.
02:16They sell a lot of them.
02:19As to the registration, they don't monitor it anymore.
02:22Under Republic Act 11934 or SIM Card Registration Act,
02:27the end user should register a number on the SIM card.
02:31This is what the PAOC can see in the law.
02:34There is no guarantee that a real person registered on the Telco.
02:39Under DICT, they will audit the process of registering telecommunications companies
02:44with SIM cards to see if it's effective to avoid pecking registrations.
02:51Yesterday, a decree was issued by DICT Secretary Ivan John Uy
02:55to form a SIM Card Registration Annual Audit Task Force.
03:00Some of the things Uy is asking the task force to do
03:03is to identify the registered subscribers
03:07from the National ID System.
03:09According to Globe Telecom,
03:11their SIMs are still being deactivated
03:13until it's registered and verified.
03:16After successful verification,
03:19their SIMs will be used.
03:22They will follow the DICT's audit
03:24because it's also included in the law.
03:26DITO Telecommunity is also favoring
03:28audits that can help Filipinos.
03:32They have their own app that has more than 19,000 pecking accounts
03:37and they already have 14 million successful registrants.
03:40According to SMART,
03:42they are making sure that their scam messages are being hacked
03:45and their SIM registrations are being validated.
03:48They are also enforcing the following regulations
03:51in the National Telecommunications Commission or NTC
03:54to avoid pecking identities.
03:56For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong,
03:59For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong,
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