PASTOR Apollo has a suggestion following a proposal put forward by Sen. Francis Tolentino that scammers should be charged with a heavy fine instead of limiting the SIM registration per individual– as a way to address the continued proliferation of text scams.
For Pastor Apollo, it is better to have or find a new technology that can help detect and monitor scammers.
“Even if, I think they will impose a high fee to deter scammers, they have money. [If] they want really to scam, they will spend a lot of money for that. So, what we need to do maybe is to really make a scientific move to really determine who the scammers are by our, I dont know what technology can you use to really make surveillance of those scammers in our own way. I don’t know what technology to use about that, that we can track down scammers who are unregistered or if they are registered then they have so many,” according to Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Apollo added that although this problem would be impossible to solve, he still hoped that the government could come up with a measure to combat scammers lurking on social media.
“It is very, a very almost impossible to solve [the] problem. I hope that they come up with something that can really nailed down these scammers on social media,” Pastor Apollo added.
To recall, in a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Public Services, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Cybercrime Division revealed that there is an open sale of registered SIM cards on various social media platforms and that SIM card registration can be faked.
