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A 70-YEAR-OLD meat vendor in Tarlac City lost nearly P1-million to a woman he met on Facebook.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Agents of the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group on Tuesday arrested suspect, alias \u201cTita.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspect used the identity of her teenage niece to have an \u201conline romance\u201d with the victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Members of the Regional Anti-Cybercrime Unit 3 (RACU3) arrested alias \u201cTita\u201d on the strength of a warrant of arrest for violation of Section 4(b)(3) or the Computer-related Identity Theft under Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 issued by a Tarlac City Regional Trial Court.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Investigation showed the accused created a Facebook account last year using her niece\u2019s name and began messaging the victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victim and the suspect later developed an online romance, with the elderly meat vendor not realizing he was chatting with a con artist.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the period, the suspect persuaded the victim to send her money and gifts, which the complainant said totaled nearly P1 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The RACU 3 said that when questioned, the suspect\u2019s niece revealed that she was only 17-years-old when her aunt started the scam.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the teenager, she discovered that on her 18th birthday, the suspect requested more money and gifts from the victims supposedly for their celebration.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The teener said she later suspected that something was wrong when she received information that her aunt had been receiving money and gifts from the victim.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The niece discovered the gifts inside her aunt\u2019s house when she paid her a surprise visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This prompted the teenager to contact the complainant and join him in filing a formal complaint before the RACU 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, authorities highlighted anew the importance of caution in online dating, especially given the rise of romance scams. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PNP-ACG said not everything we see on social media is genuine.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 70-YEAR-OLD meat vendor in Tarlac City lost nearly P1-million to a woman he met on Facebook. Agents of the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10015\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}