Casual Factors on the Increase of Cyber Fraud in the Philippines

This study aims to examine and help vulnerable people such as senior citizens, rural citizens, and those who lack knowledge of cyber fraud. This study helped the community raise awareness as fraud has been upgrading over time, which causes money and time losses. It prevents victims as the community learns what to do and what to avoid in fraud situations. This study used a descriptive method to identify the increase in fraud and people's awareness online. Likewise, mixed-method will be used. Stratified random sampling will be used to identify the 50 participants who will answer the survey questionnaire provided by the researchers. The participants showed there are likely to have hours of internet usage, causing them vulnerable to cyber fraud. The research suggests picking the most reliable and trustworthy sites by relying on internet transactions. According to the research, the result shows an increase in cyber fraud by people's lack of awareness.