CLAIM: The social welfare department is offering unemployment assistance of P7,000
RATING: FALSE
A suspicious link is promoting a fake unemployment financial assistance scheme to obtain sensitive information from social media users.
This tactic has all the hallmarks of a phishing scam, where users are tricked into giving their sensitive information that will then be used to hack their personal accounts.
The fake link directs to a website where users will be asked to answer four questions supposedly to get three chances to win a gift. But the user will then be asked by the fake website to tell five groups and send the fake link to 20 different friends on the Messenger app.
To obtain more information, the fake site promises that the cash assistance will be delivered to the users’ homes in exchange for their email and home addresses.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) however has announced that it has no unemployment financial assistance scheme, and the circulating links are part of the scam.
The department has also been posting warnings on its official Facebook page about different scams and websites impersonating it.
Information on the DSWD’s assistance programs can be found on its official website https://www.dswd.gov.ph/. Jannah Argote
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