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MANILA – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has warned the public against fake e-mail messages appearing to be from the agency.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the agency cautioned the people not to open such e-mails using the name of its chief Bernard Olalia as these may contain viruses.
“Spam emails have been sent using olalia@poea.gov.ph. Those e-mails were not from the office of the POEA Administrator so please disregard and do not open the attached files,” the post said. “They may contain a disguised program (malware, adware, spyware, virus, etc.) that could damage your computer system or steal your data.”
The POEA also apologized to those that have received such an email.
“We apologize for any confusion or harm that the malicious e-mails may have caused,” it said. (PNA)
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