Two different video advisories posted on Facebook are claiming that beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will receive a P5,000 Christmas bonus. This is not true.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has already debunked this claim. The clips are also likely generated using artificial intelligence.
Posted on Dec. 5, the earliest copy that VERA Files has tracked was a republished video from an impostor page of DSWD, where a woman in a supposed Land Bank of the Philippines uniform can be heard saying:
“Good news! Lahat ng 4Ps member at lahat ng mga nanay ay makakatanggap ng P5,000 christmas bonus. Mag-register online. Para makasama ka sa christmas bonus, mag-follow dito sa page namin, MSWD News Update. Ang registration link ay makikita dito sa post namin at comment section. Siguraduhing naka-register ka dahil tatawag kami ngayong araw. Mag-follow sa amin at share mo ang balitang ito.
(Good news! All 4Ps members and mothers will receive a P5,000 Christmas bonus. Register online to be entitled to the Christmas bonus. Follow our page, MSWD News Update. The registration link can be found in this post and in the comment section. Be sure to register because we will call today. Follow us and share this news).”
Two other videos uploaded on Dec. 10 by the impostor DSWD page, but which are now deleted, show a man in a similar Land Bank uniform claiming:
“P5,000 christnas bonus para sa lahat ng Filipino kahit hindi 4Ps member kasama dito. Ang gagawin lang ay mag-register sa link dito sa post namin at comment section. After mong mag-register, ay hintayin ang tawag namin para sa payout mo. I-comment ang lugar mo, mag-follow dito sa page nami, MSWD News Update at share mo ang balitang ito.”
(P5, 000 Christmas bonus for all Filipinos, even 4Ps non-members included. All you have to do is register through the link in our post and in the comment section. After registering, wait for our call for your payout. Comment where you are from, follow our page, MSWD News Update and share this news).”
At least three FB posts carrying the videos bore three separate registration links for Filipinos from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
In a public advisory on Dec. 10, the DSWD warned the public against the “misleading” social media posts, tagging those as “false and a possible mechanism by online scammers to obtain beneficiaries’ private information.”
DSWD Assistant Secretary Irene Dumalo, the agency’s spokesperson, cautioned the program beneficiaries against clicking the links in the spurious posts. “Lahat po ng mga impormasyon na manggagaling sa DSWD ay magmumula lamang sa inyong mga municipal at city links, at pati na rin sa official social media page ng 4Ps at ng DSWD,” Dulamo said.
The links attached in the Dec. 5 post lead netizens to three product pages on an online shopping platform. Meanwhile, those included in the Dec. 10 post redirect the public to bogus “DSWD payout schedule” blog sites, which are designed to phish users’ personal information.
Results from AI detection tool Hive Moderation showed that both videos are highly likely to have been created using AI. Hive suggested that Veo3, Google’s “state-of-the-art video generation model,” was likely used to generate the two clips.
VERA Files also ran four still frames from both clips on other AI image detectors, WasItAI and SightEngine. The snapshots specifically show the parts where the teeth of the narrators—a common element for AI tampering—are visible. Results further revealed that the two videos were likely AI-made.
VERA Files has debunked other disinformation related to the DSWD’s 4Ps program that provides conditional grants to the “poorest of the poor.”
Published by FB pages News Alert Pilipinas (created on Oct. 12, 2022 and changed its name five times) and MSWD News Update (Nov. 14, 2025), the three AI-generated clips have been viewed 74,000 times and garnered 3,568 interactions.
