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OPERATIVES of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday arrested over 100 Filipinos and Chinese nationals in a raid at an alleged \u201clove scam\u201d hub in a condominium building in Makati City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NBI Director Jaime Santiago<\/strong> said the \u201clove scam\u201d facility uses artificial intelligence (AI) to lure unsuspecting victims in online romances.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Most of the victims were from Europe and the Middle East. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Santiago, who led the raid, said NBI agents discovered that the scammers used AI-generated conversations and fake profile pictures of attractive women to entice their victims to invest in cryptocurrency.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWith Valentine\u2019s Day approaching, I urge both men and women to be cautious when using dating apps,\u201d the NBI chief said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Authorities found scripts on the desktops and mobile phones that were automated to exchange messages with the victims.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The NBI agents also seized unregistered SIMS for the mobile phones.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among those arrested was a Chinese national who served as supervisor of the employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charges for violating the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act and the Cybercrime Prevention Act are being readied for filing against the arrested suspects.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OPERATIVES of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Tuesday arrested over 100 Filipinos and Chinese nationals in a raid at an alleged “love scam”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",671,419,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns-300x187.png",300,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",640,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",640,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",671,419,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",671,419,false],"kreeti-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",671,419,false],"kreeti-featured":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",671,419,false],"kreeti-medium":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns.png",671,419,false],"kreeti-medium-square":["https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jzv1qjns-350x350.png",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"Metro<\/a>","tag_info":"Metro","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11666,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/11666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}