A BILL seeking to protect senior citizens from cybercrimes such as text scams has been filed by Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada.
In a statement yesterday, Estrada said he filed Senate Bill No.671 or the “Senior Citizens’ Fraud Education Act” amid the “continuing proliferation of online crimes which increased at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, targeting mostly retired elderly citizens”.
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