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Online scam and cybercrime complaints
- The CICC's complaint centre logged 18,633 cybercrime complaints of all kinds in 2025, up 86% on 2024. This is not a count of scams alone.
- The ₱418.187 million loss figure for 2025 covers consumer fraud, online fraud, hacking and phishing only. The 2024 figure of almost ₱198 million was given for cybercrime victims generally, so the two are not on the same basis and no change between them is published.
- Consumer fraud was reported as about 35% of complaints in both 2024 and 2025. Of the 2024 consumer-fraud complaints, CICC said 86% were non-delivery of goods or services.
- The PNP recorded fewer incidents in four selected scam categories over 1 January – 4 December 2025 than in the same period of 2024, while the CICC logged more complaints across the full year. The two count different things and are never differenced here.
- The BSP received more than 120,000 new financial consumer complaints in 2025 about banks and other supervised institutions. The total may include scams and other financial-consumer disputes; the published figure is not scam-only, and its cases are not a subset of the CICC's.
- Updated
- 4 September 2026
- Data cutoff
- 2025-12-31
- Sources accessed
- 2026-09-04
- Next update
- CICC year-end briefing, January 2027 · BSP Annual Report, August 2027
Sulat.ph, "Philippine Online Scam and Cybercrime Complaints Tracker", sulat.ph/data/online-scams, updated 4 September 2026. Compiled from CICC, PNP-ACG and BSP published figures.
What we could not establish (6)·Corrections (2)
PAO public attorney access
- The rows reproduced by the Legal Research PH compilation, attributed there to PAO's 2025 materials, sum to 2,521 public attorneys across the 17 reporting regions that carry a count. The Negros Island Region is listed as not available.
- The census counts 112,727,776 people across 18 regions — 112,729,484 including the 1,708 Filipinos posted abroad — of whom 4,904,944 are in the Negros Island Region, a region for which no attorney count exists.
- The census figure for BARMM, 5,691,583, includes Sulu. Whether PAO's BARMM attorney count does is not stated in any published document.
- Because of those two mismatches, attorneys per 100,000 people, people per attorney and any ranking of regions are not calculable from published data. This page suppresses them rather than estimating them.
- No attorney count here has been verified against a PAO document: pao.gov.ph returned HTTP 403 on the access date, and the compilation states no national total, so PAO's own 2025 figure remains unverified.
- Updated
- 4 September 2026
- Data cutoff
- 2025-12-31
- Sources accessed
- 2026-09-04
- Next update
- PAO Accomplishment Report, February 2027
Sulat.ph, "PAO Public Attorney Access Tracker", sulat.ph/data/pao-access, updated 4 September 2026. Compiled from Public Attorney's Office regional reporting and Philippine Statistics Authority census figures.
What we could not establish (7)·Corrections (2)
Labor justice tracker (SEnA)
- DOLE regional offices and the NCMB facilitated ₱2,903,714,020.87 in monetary benefits as of December 2024, reaching 58,212 workers — an average of ₱49,882 each.
- The release reports a 99.63% disposition rate and a 90.35% settlement rate but does not publish the base either is calculated on.
- It contains four different caseload totals for the same year: 53,519 processed, 83,836 handled, 76,500 in the disposal cycle-time rows and 56,688 in the settlement cycle-time rows. None can be divided into another.
- 36.88% of requests with validated employment-size data — 23,741 records — came from small enterprises, and 26.24% (16,892) from micro enterprises. These are counts of requests by respondent establishment size, not counts of distinct companies.
- The average reported resolution time was five to nine days, with DOLE Regional Office III averaging one day.
- Updated
- 4 September 2026
- Data cutoff
- 2024-12-31
- Sources accessed
- 2026-09-04
- Next update
- NCMB / DOLE SEnA year-end release, January 2027
Sulat.ph, "Labor Justice Tracker — Single Entry Approach", sulat.ph/data/labor-sena, updated 4 September 2026. Compiled from NCMB and DOLE published figures for 2024.
What we could not establish (7)·Corrections (2)
How we compile
Figures come from Philippine government statements and reports — the CICC, PNP, Bangko Sentral, Public Attorney's Office, Philippine Statistics Authority, NCMB and DOLE — or from published research that names its dataset. Every source is labelled as a primary document, an official statement, a news report carrying an official figure, or a secondary compilation, and each one carries a direct link. Where an agency's own document could not be retrieved, the page says so and names the carrier the figure was read from instead.
We do not estimate. Every number is either published or a Sulat.ph calculation whose inputs are named. Where two sources count different things — CICC complaints against PNP recorded incidents, BSP financial-consumer complaints against either — we present them separately and do not difference them. Where a figure cannot be computed from aligned published data, it is suppressed with its reason rather than approximated.
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