The CICC is the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center. RA 10175 created it as an inter-agency body under the administrative supervision of the Office of the President, for policy coordination among agencies and for the national cybersecurity plan.

What is the 1326 hotline?

It is the name many people type when they look for the CICC's reporting line. What the line handles, when it answers and how it takes reports are published on the CICC's own site, cicc.gov.ph, so read that page before you call.

Does the CICC license casinos?

No. The powers listed for it in RA 10175 concern coordinating cybercrime prevention, monitoring cases and cooperating with other agencies. Licences come from gaming regulators, which you check using the regulator's own published list.

Ano ang dapat kong ihanda bago mag-report ng scam?

Ihanda ang screenshots ng chat, ang address ng site, ang pangalan at numero ng wallet na pinadalhan mo, ang halaga at petsa, at ang transaction reference. Mas mabilis ang usapan kapag kumpleto ang mga ito.

D9D9 CICC: 5 Things to Know Before You Report a Scam

In this section
Fact	Value
D9D9 AMLC and Anti Money Laundering Rules for Casino Players	The AMLC is the Anti-Money Laundering Council, the body that enforces the Anti-Money Laundering Act (RA 9160).
D9D9 Curaçao Gaming Authority	The Curaçao Gaming Authority is the regulator that licenses and supervises Curaçao's online gaming sector under the National Ordinance on Games of Chance, in force since 24 December 2024.
D9D9 Mirror Site	A mirror site is a second address that opens the same casino as the first.
D9D9 Offshore Gambling	Offshore gambling means the operator holds its licence in another country, such as Curaçao, while serving players elsewhere.
D9D9 Website Legit Checker	To check whether a website is legit yourself, read the address letter by letter, remember the padlock only proves encryption, note who the footer names, look that name up on the regulator's own list, check the domain record, and refuse any off-site payment request.

The CICC is the body Filipino players most often search for after money has gone to the wrong place, and knowing what it is saves you a wasted call. This page sits under the online casino licensing topic because a licence tells you who regulates a casino, while the CICC is where cybercrime reports are coordinated.

It is not a licensing body and it does not settle disputes with a licensed casino. It is the cybercrime side of the picture.

Five things to know about the CICC

The CICC is the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center, created by Section 24 of RA 10175 (2012).
It is an inter-agency body, so it works through other agencies instead of replacing them.
Its job is policy coordination and the national cybersecurity plan.
It is not a gaming regulator; casino licences are checked at a regulator’s own list.
Current reporting details live on its own site, cicc.gov.ph, not in a chat message or a social post.

What the CICC is under RA 10175

RA 10175 is the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012. Section 24 creates the CICC; Section 25 sets who sits on it; Section 26 lists what it does.

Section	What it says	Why it matters to you
24	Creates the CICC under the administrative supervision of the Office of the President	Names it as a government body
25	As enacted, headed by the ICTO-DOST executive director with the NBI director as vice chairperson, plus the PNP chief and the head of the DOJ Office of Cybercrime	Shows it joins several agencies
26	Lists its powers and functions	Shows it coordinates, not licenses

The text is on lawphil.net as the law was enacted in 2012. Agencies have been reorganised since, so read the CICC’s own site for who runs it today.

What the CICC does, from Section 26

Section 26 lists eight powers and functions. Four of them matter most when you are a victim:

Formulate a national cybersecurity plan and extend immediate assistance for suppression of real-time cybercrime through a computer emergency response team.
Coordinate measures to prevent and suppress cybercrime.
Monitor cybercrime cases handled by participating law enforcement and prosecution agencies.
Facilitate international cooperation on investigations and training.

Note the verbs: coordinate, monitor, facilitate. That is the work of a coordinating center, which is why a report may be passed to an investigating agency.

1326 hotline: where to find the number

The phrase 1326 hotline is how people search for the CICC’s reporting line. What the line handles, its hours and the way it takes a report change over time, and the CICC publishes them on its own site, cicc.gov.ph.

Type cicc.gov.ph into your browser yourself.
Open the contact or report page.
Read what kinds of reports it takes and how it asks you to send them.
Save the number from that page, not from a message someone forwarded.

Problem

A message gives you a number and says it is the CICC.

Fix

Do not call it. Type cicc.gov.ph yourself and take the number from that page. A number that arrives unrequested is how impostors reach people who have already lost money.

When a CICC report is the right move

Pick the route by what happened. The first row is the one the CICC exists for.

What happened	First stop
You sent money to a person or an unlisted site and it vanished	Your wallet or bank, then a CICC report
Your account was taken over after you shared an OTP	Your wallet or bank, then a CICC report
A licensed casino delays a withdrawal	The casino’s own support, then the regulator named in its footer
A casino asks for ID and the source of your funds	Normal; read why the AMLC rules cause this

Run the six-step website legit checker before you send anything, so your report names the address and the company the page printed.

Where licences fit beside the CICC

The CICC and a gaming regulator answer different questions. The CICC deals with cybercrime; a regulator publishes who may operate.

Find the company named in the casino’s footer.
Search the regulator’s own register, as in how the Curaçao Gaming Authority publishes its register.
Check whether the brand is one platform shared by several operators, as the mirror site page on shared platforms explains.

A licence entry, even a matching one, does not turn a scam into something the CICC cannot receive. If money left your wallet because of a lie, that is a cybercrime report.

What to gather before you report

A report with facts moves faster than one without. Collect these on your phone first.

Item	Example
The address	The hostname copied from the address bar
Screenshots	Chat thread, cashier screen, any receipt
Payment trail	Wallet transaction reference, amount in pesos, date and time
The other party	Account name and number shown in the wallet

D9D9 CICC and the 1326 Hotline: Where Scam Reports Go