Manila, March 12 -- The Scam Watch Pilipinas on Thursday highlighted the role of Filipino women in protecting the country's cyber landscape.

Scam Watch is a privately funded group known as the national citizen arm of the government, and working to educate Filipinos about cyber fraud.

In a message to the Philippine News Agency, its co-founder Jocel de Guzman said women play an important role in their volunteer watcher program and policy development through "their strong community networks and active participation in advocacy."

Scam Watch Pilipinas currently has three women advisors -Joanne Ranada, former Securities and Exchange Commission Corporate Governance division chief counsel as the new Anti-Investment Scam advisor; Gogolook Phili...