LIST: The partners of GCash in keeping your e-wallet safe

MANILA, Philippines — Scammers are out in full force this holiday season. With Filipinos engrossed in holiday shopping and celebrations, they become easy targets for online scams.

Amid the holiday frenzy, leading finance super app GCash continues to fortify its security efforts. On top of providing advanced in-app protection, GCash is collaborating with key government agencies to create a more secure digital landscape for its users.

Here are the key government authorities that GCash has partnered with to help keep your account safe this holiday season:

The Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) is the country's specialized unit tasked to enforce laws on crimes committed using computers and the internet. 

GCash works closely with the PNP-ACG to go after cybercriminals through entrapment operations. In fact, through GCash’s cooperation with authorities, 5.6 million accounts linked to suspicious activities have been deactivated and 2.2 million account takeover attempts have been blocked.

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has its own unit assigned to investigate cybercrimes. The NBI Cybercrime Division (CCD) leads efforts in tracking down cybercriminals and help recover stolen data.

GCash has partnered with NBI to provide data and information that will help investigate and prosecute cybercrimes involving the use of the e-wallet, including any crimes involving the transfer or receipt of proceeds from any crime. 

The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) is an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). It creates strategies and shapes policy to stop cybercrimes before they happen, through awareness campaigns and technical measures. It also monitors cybercrime cases being handled by different law enforcement agencies to help them identify trends and coordinate responses.

Early this year, GCash teamed up with the CICC to create a quick response system for financial fraud. Under the agreement, a "rapid incident response" mechanism will automatically alert GCash once CICC detects a new kind of scam. This enables GCash to take immediate steps to help prevent its users from falling