One more web site imitating The Manila Occasions posted a narrative endorsing a cryptocurrency buying and selling program supposedly advisable by former Finance secretary Carlos Dominguez III. This can be a rehash of a beforehand debunked hoax.
A number of Fb (FB) customers and a web page circulated the hyperlink to the web site as early as Oct. 3. It carried an article on Dominguez’s supposed TV Patrol interview the place he revealed how a brand new cryptocurrency platform known as BTC Ai Urex 2.0 can flip Filipinos into millionaires inside three to 4 months. Its headline learn:
“SPECIAL REPORT: Carlos Dominguez’s Newest Funding Has Consultants in Awe And Massive Banks Terrified.”
The article additionally supplied a “step-by-step” information on how the general public can “deposit” cash to the platform to achieve revenue.
That is faux. The Manila Occasions didn’t publish such a narrative. The identical fabricated report was utilized in earlier scams, solely altering the platform’s identify in addition to the general public determine and media group that had been impersonated.
The hoax report was uploaded on a web site with the area identify nrebkloak.digital, not by the Manila Occasions’ official web site (manilatimes.internet).
In 2020, the Division of Finance warned a few “cryptocurrency auto-trading platform” that equally used Dominguez’s id to lure traders.
The report’s content material is sort of an identical to the one which featured Manny Pacquiao selling a special platform final August. It solely changed the boxer’s identify and images with these of Dominguez’s.
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In accordance with the cybersecurity agency Kaspersky, the Philippines was the second most attacked nation in Southeast Asia final 12 months on the subject of crypto-phishing, recording 24,737 circumstances.
Two Filipino celebrities and different people filed a grievance this month towards a cryptocurrency group for allegedly scamming them into investing about P8 million.
A number of netizens and the verified FB web page of Turkish actress Hazal Filiz Küçükköse (created on June 11, 2010) had been amongst people who circulated the hyperlink.
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