Text scams have been with us since the dawn of text messaging and from every forwarded messages that goes through your inbox’s everyday, it’s hard to identify those people behind as we’re not really sure who were the sources of these text messages are. Scam messages ranges from those that tells you that you’ve won an electronic raffle or something even though you know you haven’t participated any or perhaps someone (a relative) having troubles from abroad.
So who were these guys are? And how did they ended up in our inbox? We’ll, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) now has the answer to these long standing questions as they’ve just arrested one of the culprits of these insane message. The suspect named Roan Sia also-known-as Mark Tan was arrested in his house in Metro Manila. According to the NBI, suspect Roan Sia is believed to be the one of the biggest text scam operator in the country and is titled as the “Text Scam King” of the Philippines after having transferred around 100 Million Pesos worth of credits from hundreds and thousands of victims.
According to the NBI, Mr. Sia’s modus operandi was to send multiple text messages to random numbers and pretends to be a family member or a friend to get credits using the mobile carrier’s mobile load sharing feature. The suspect will then have those collected credits encashed using the network money transfer services such as Smart’s Smart Money and Globe’s GCash services.
As of now, the NBI is still investigating the case to find out who’s with the suspects operation or if there is someone working behind them. As for the fate of the suspect, he will be facing various charges including large-scale estafa and a violation to the Device Access Act of 1998 (RA 8484).
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