00:00In Pasay, a man was caught selling illegal text blasters used for scams.
00:07The suspect used to work at the Pogo Club.
00:11June Venaracion was arrested.
00:17Arrested in a police entrapment operation in Pasay City yesterday,
00:21the man was caught selling illegal text blasters used for scams.
00:27The PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group monitored the incident.
00:30The suspects are trading online for P600,000 pesos.
00:34The mere possession of this machine is a violation of a law.
00:39The prohibited equipment,
00:41known as the International Mobile Subscriber Identity Catcher,
00:45can send multiple text messages within a radius of 500 meters.
00:50That's why it's the primary tool used by scammers.
00:53You might have won a case where you didn't participate.
01:01Those are the messages that it sends.
01:05Based on the investigation of the PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group,
01:07the suspect used to work as a security guard at a Pogo club.
01:12He was caught selling text blasters used for scams
01:16from his former boss, the Pogo operator.
01:20According to the police,
01:21the suspect doesn't know how to operate a text blaster,
01:24but he said he knows how to use it for Pogo's scamming operation.
01:28He just wants to earn money.
01:30The security guard was sold by his former employer.
01:34He bought it and sold it.
01:39The suspect is facing a complaint of violation of the Privacy Act of 2012
01:42and Republic Act 3846,
01:45an act providing for the regulation
01:47of radio stations and radio communications in the Philippines.
01:51We are just new to this.
01:53The PNP-ACG continues to monitor online
01:56the sale of these high-tech devices for scams or even for campaigning.
02:01For sure, there are many of them
02:03because we can see that there are many Pogo operators here
02:07before they left the Philippines.
02:10For GMA Integrated News,
02:13I'm John Venerasio, for 24 Hours.
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