Loren deplores perpetrators bogus e-mails, website

Senator Loren Legarda yesterday issued a disclaimer on the bogus website and e-mail address bearing her name and which is apparently being used in e-mail fraud.

"I strongly issue a disclaimer on these bogus websites that tend to mislead my constituents into believing principles and policies which I do not adhere to," she said.

Legarda ventilated her concern in the senate where she also urged the chamber to investigate the proliferation of bogus websites such as the one which she discovered to be using domain name lorenlegarda.com and which is registered and maintained by a certain J.S. Lim.

The bogus website, according to Legarda, was registered through a hosting party named Bluerazor, an internet hosting company based in Arizona, USA. The user, Legarda said, claims to be a resident of Singapore.

"I repeat for the benefit of the public, that I have not authorized the construction and maintenance of the bogus/fake website that carries the domain name "lorenlegarda.com" and the emails that have the suffix "@lorenlegarda.com."

Legarda said she has already alerted the authorities to investigate the matter.

According to Legarda, there seems to be an apparent intention to on the part of some unscrupulous personalities to deceive the public into believing false advocacies and information.

"What's worse is the fact that we discovered that if attempts to send an email to the bogus address suffixed "@lorenlegarda.com" the sender receives an automatic reply that conveys the message where I purportedly signed a letter of solicitation for funds, thus discrediting my person and integrity," she said.

"This dastardly practice which makes our respective senate offices vulnerable to being discredited by people through deceit and fraud must stop," she sadid.

The office of Senator Legarda maintains a website lorenlegarda.com.ph and several email address which her staff uses to communicate with her constituents about her advocacies as a senator.

"We live in a generation of high technology. Never has a day passed in our lives without utilizing the computer and the internet, which has become a main source of our references for research materials, hence an investigation for this incident must be done," she said.