The caller turned out to be a woman who spoke English with a thick foreign accent. She introduced herself as an employee of a French company, and she said she wanted to recruit me for a job as an influencer.
Still, it was disappointing to realize that I could no longer rely on the authenticity of product ratings online. I check out the ratings for restaurants, travel destinations, certain products that are hard to find in brick-and-mortar shops, and what’s good on Netflix. Apart from human traffickers, financial scammers abound. There are millions of Filipinos out there with e-wallets, and with bank accounts through which state ayuda is coursed, who have near-zero awareness of digital security.
Shouldn’t e-wallet providers be held responsible for authentication of the identities of their account holders? Failing to do so, shouldn’t they have some accountability for fraudulent transactions conducted using their apps? Maybe the hackers are just looking for details on how lawmakers spend their extraordinary and miscellaneous allocations. That kind of information could be worth more than the $300,000 ransom demanded by the Medusa hackers from PhilHealth. And there could be lawmakers ready and willing to pay – with our tax money.
It’s a seemingly never ending, nerve wracking game of sharks and minnows; every Filipino fisherman or every man guarding our seas may feel extra jittery nowadays whenever the job takes them to the disputed...
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