#Online Scamming

Back in the days, online scams were perpetrated via emails, forums or instant messenger (YM mostly). Kickstart Ventures Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Globe Telecom has recently invested $100K dollars or more than Php4M in startup online learning platform Kalibrr. Kalibrr is an online learning platform that is designed to help Filipinos qualify and land jobs in the local business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. Once users complete the online program (some of their graduates completed it in a week), Kalibrr refers them to its partner companies for a job interview. And since it is an online platform, you can attend the program at home or at an internet cafe. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) have formally joined forces to shield the investing public from a rising wave of digital financial crimes and deceptive online schemes across Central Luzon. Miguel Guzman, who stressed that cross-agency data sharing is becoming critical as online fraudsters are now using increasingly sophisticated methods. Read more in our articles including "SNS makes Online Scamming Much Easier" and "Kickstart invests in online learning platform Kalibrr".