Fake and Malicious Video of Mayor Duterte on Rice Smugglers Circulating Online

Netizens are warned against viewing the alleged video of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, forcing some rice smugglers to eat smuggled rice made of synthetic.

The said video is full of malicious spywares and programs that are harmful to computers and especially Smartphones.

In an email sent to The Philippine Pride from Cybersafe Inc, a Quezon City based-IT company providing web safety and security services, IT Expert and system administrator Engineer Allan Mercader, said that one of their customers have their system crashed after an employee clicked on a supposed video of Duterte, which turned out to be fake and full of virus.

The employee allegedly visited a local satire site and from there, clicked a link to the video. A program was automatically installed in his computer and started scanning the whole system.

It was later found out that the computer was severely infected and some important information has been sent to the hacker’s server.

Later, a message asking the owner to buy certain software in order to fix the system appeared.

The notorious site, as shown on the image below, asked netizens to view the video.

The video is actually an edited version of GMA’s Arnold Clavio report about rice smuggling. In the video, Clavio says “Handa raw pumatay si Mayor Rodrigo Duterte para labanan ang rice”, (video stops). A message asking the viewer to download a program in order to continue watching the video appears after Clavio stopped talking.

In reality, there is no video that show Mayor Duterte forcing a smuggler to eat smuggled rice.

Cybersafe Inc reported that as of yesterday, they already received 465 complaints on hacked systems after downloading the suggested program.

“There is no video after buying and downloading the program. I was totally scammed by this website”, a twitter user named JBAntony told TPP.

Cybersafe suggested that netizens should always be vigilant and do not buy anything, especially software/programs from unknown websites.

There are at least 3 known webpages that have the same content as the above images.

Netizens are urged to immediately leave any site with similar content with the first image above.

“The exaggerated report about Duterte is not true and the purpose of these websites is just to scam people while on the popularity of the mayor,” Mercader said.

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