Gaming firm eyes lawsuits over ‘fake ads’

A 100-percent Filipino gaming technology company that bagged a license to operate a digital numbers game solution from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) vowed to pursue legal action against a group behind what it called an ongoing “fake ad” campaign against their company.

Globaltech Mobile Online Corp., said it will file a multi-million libel case and a motion to cite in contempt of court against a group behind a series of paid advertisements that came out in newspapers wherein they were alleged to be illegally operating the “Peryahan ng Bayan” games and was even accused of being a front for the illegal numbers game “jueteng.”

The company said the claims made in the advertisements were “completely and maliciously false.”

Globaltech said its legal dispute with PCSO over the agency’s allegedly arbitrary and illegal termination of its authority to operate the “Peryahan ng Bayan”was pending before the courts.

Globaltech, the developer of the “Peryahan ng Bayan” digitized numbers game, was authorized by the PCSO to sell and distribute lottery tickets for the “Peryahan ng Bayan” games by virtue of a deed of authority issued by the PCSO to Globaltech in April 2014.

The last paid advertisement that attacked Globaltech came out in The

STAR on Oct. 23.