Senator Win Gatchalian accused the National Telecommunications Commission of “sleeping on the job” after thousands of SIM cards were found in raids of POGO hubs in Pasay, Bamban and Porac. The raiding teams from the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission tagged these supposedly POGO operations as hotbeds of illegal activities by foreign criminal syndicates victimizing people here and abroad. They give our country a bad international reputation.
The Times reported, “One of the messages said the victim should remove the device from his Apple account ‘because the phone is going to be auctioned on the black market with your personal information.’ The threats escalated, and eventually he and his family were threatened with rape and murder. ‘This was a random phone number from the Philippines, where clearly no one knows us,’ he said, ‘but I was surprised by how brutal the language was.
Our telcos were never really enthusiastic about mandatory SIM registration. Doing it right adds to business expense. Their compliance was bare minimum. Now they are blaming the lack of an adequate national ID system as the reason for their failure to ascertain legitimacy of registered owners. They could have been presented with IDs from Claro Recto Avenue. Examining the confiscated SIM cards from the POGO raids will tell us more. Let the telcos explain how those SIM cards got there.
There should be a way by which the public can send to NTC screenshots of these offending scam and spam offers and from there, NTC will instruct the telco to disconnect that number. Then we should get a text message from the telco or NTC about what action was taken to show NTC is doing something more useful than sending us spam messages in the guise of public service announcements.
It is interesting that “Kangkong” the 24-year-old hacker working with a newspaper’s technology editor, has not gone beyond elementary school but learned the technology by himself and has proven very adept at it. He claims to have hacked 93 websites of government agencies and private companies. If BBM can harness such native talent for good, the government’s technology agencies will better run.
There are 46 buildings in the Porac POGO complex, a self-sustaining mini city with a restaurant, a grocery, karaoke bar, pharmacy and salon. It is right for PAOCC to seek forfeiture of assets including land and building for having been used in criminal activities. These could be immediately converted to classrooms, solving a current shortage.
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