{"id":192760,"date":"2018-12-06T06:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=192760"},"modified":"2018-12-06T06:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:27:53","slug":"panelo-deactivates-fb-account-due-to-online-scams-using-his-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/06\/panelo-deactivates-fb-account-due-to-online-scams-using-his-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Panelo deactivates FB account due to online scams using his name"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191167\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191167\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/46715023_769103930091328_45309839093530624_n-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panelo said he has reported the incident to National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Dante Gierran for investigation. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/pcb.769105126757875\/769103913424663\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Thursday announced that he has deactivated his official Facebook account as he warned the public against the rise of online scams involving his name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the umpteenth time, I\u2019m cautioning the public to be wary of scams using my name. As a result of this, I have decided to cut all my Facebook accounts, (FB) Messenger and everything so that they can no longer use it,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who uses my name and anybody who comes out with a Facebook account &#8212; that\u2019s a fake. I\u2019m cutting everything,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said he has reported the incident to National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Dante Gierran for investigation.<\/p>\n<p>He said this is the fifth scam that he has heard about the use of his name where money has been deposited to accounts in the name of other people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears in that note that there are exchanges coming from me that I was asking for money,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to curse like the President,\u201d he added, noting that he could not imagine why people he personally knew entertained the scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really cannot understand why these people who are supposed to know me would be believing that. The only reason I think, that I can conclude is that, my name seems to be very credible so they\u2019re using my name,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Thursday announced that he has deactivated his official Facebook account as he warned the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}