{"id":777046213,"date":"2026-08-14T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777046213"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:12:50","slug":"philippines-cicc-flags-12-facebook-accounts-over-illegal-online-gambling-promotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-cicc-flags-12-facebook-accounts-over-illegal-online-gambling-promotions","title":{"rendered":"Philippines\u2019 CICC flags 12 Facebook accounts over illegal online gambling promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippine cybercrime agency identified 12 Facebook pages and accounts allegedly promoting unregulated gambling websites, including several with millions of followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippines.- The <strong>Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Centre<\/strong> (CICC) has flagged <strong>12 Facebook accounts and pages<\/strong> for allegedly promoting unregulated online gambling websites. The accounts were included in the <strong>seventh and final batch<\/strong> of the CICC\u2019s advisory identifying social media influencers and pages allegedly endorsing illegal gambling platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/08\/cicc-blocks-900x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-777046214\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The largest account named by the agency was <strong>Never Grow Old 2.0<\/strong>, which has around six million followers. It was followed by <strong>Kanene in Florida<\/strong>, with 5.6 million followers, while <strong>Boss Nethjan<\/strong> and <strong>Brex TV 2.0<\/strong> each have around 3.2 million. Another account, <strong>Magda<\/strong>, was reported to have 1.9 million followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CICC also identified Boss Owa 2.0, Parengtol 5.0, Madam Hannie, Randy Perez Calderon, Kavendor V.2, Daddy JC 4.0 and Leonardo Corpuz. Their reported audiences ranged from approximately 203,000 to 1.5 million followers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the agency, the accounts allegedly promoted several online gambling websites, including 777ny.com, leopardaga.com, sealjl.net, fbb89.com, alicornvip.com, worldcupph.ph, whalejl.fun, santollucky.ph, wolfkingx.com, 78go.com and jllws.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the agency confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-cicc-and-meta-take-down-influencer-pages-in-crackdown-on-illegal-online-gambling\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-cicc-and-meta-take-down-influencer-pages-in-crackdown-on-illegal-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meta had permanently removed the Facebook pages of four high-profile influencers<\/a> accused of promoting illegal gambling, with the accounts collectively reaching more than 15 million followers. The agency is encouraging the public to report accounts that continue to promote illegal online gambling websites through its 1326 hotline.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/Philippines-11-arrested-for-illegal-online-e-sabong-betting-900x600-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-arrests-nine-foreign-nationals-in-crackdown-on-alleged-illegal-online-gambling-hub\">Nine arrested over alleged illegal online gambling in the Philippines<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine cybercrime agency identified 12 Facebook pages and accounts allegedly promoting unregulated gambling websites, including several with millions of followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777028000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Centre (CICC) has identified 12 Facebook accounts and pages, some with millions of followers, for allegedly promoting unregulated online gambling websites. This action follows previous removals by Meta of similar high-profile influencer accounts, underscoring ongoing regulatory efforts against illegal iGaming promotion in the Philippines.","focusai_entities":"Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Centre (CICC), Meta, Never Grow Old 2.0, Kanene in Florida, Boss Nethjan, Brex TV 2.0, Magda, Boss Owa 2.0, Parengtol 5.0, Madam Hannie, Randy Perez Calderon, Kavendor V.2, Daddy JC 4.0, Leonardo Corpuz, 777ny.com, leopardaga.com, sealjl.net, fbb89.com, alicornvip.com, worldcupph.ph, whalejl.fun, santollucky.ph, wolfkingx.com, 78go.com, jllws.com","focusai_location":"Philippines","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"CICC Enforcement Impact","query":"What further enforcement actions, beyond social media account removal, is the CICC pursuing against the operators of these unregulated gambling websites?"},{"label":"Platform Accountability","query":"How are social media platforms like Meta enhancing their proactive content moderation and AI-driven detection capabilities to prevent the promotion of illegal gambling at scale?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[25294,25157,24901,24634,24840,24804],"class_list":["post-777046213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-block","tag-cicc","tag-facebook","tag-illegal-online-gambling","tag-meta","tag-the-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777046213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777046213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777046213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777046224,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777046213\/revisions\/777046224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777028000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777046213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777046213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777046213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}