Manila, April 23 -- The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) on Tuesday warned the public against a new phishing scam that pretends to be part of the Globe Telecom Inc. (Globe) reward points program.

In an advisory, CICC Executive Director Alexander Ramos said the domain, globeeph.top has been preying on vulnerable users via short message service (SMS).

The full text of the scam is as follows: "The globe points service reminds you that your current points account (3,022 points) will expire today. Redeem your points as soon as possible: https://globeeph.top/i Please reply Y then exit SMS, open the SMS to activate the link again, or copy the link to the Safari browser and open it."

Once mobile users follow the link, th...