JOHN CLEMENT S. ESCOBAÑEZ, MSIT

50-word bio
John Clement S. Escobañez is an information technology educator, researcher, and developer based in the Philippines. He is the developer and project lead of Scam Ba ’To?, an independent public-interest technology project focused on explainable scam-risk guidance for everyday digital messages. He is academically affiliated with National University - Manila.

150-word bio
John Clement S. Escobañez, MSIT, is an information technology educator, researcher, and developer based in the Philippines. He developed Scam Ba ’To? as an independent public-interest technology project focused on helping ordinary users interpret suspicious digital messages without treating every OTP, payment notice, urgent warning, or familiar brand name as automatic proof of fraud. His work on the project emphasizes explainable risk guidance, behavioral scam indicators, organization-specific intelligence, independently verified official destinations, adversarial testing, and transparent benchmark reporting. Escobañez is academically affiliated with the College of Computing and Information Technologies of National University - Manila. His academic affiliation is provided for professional and biographical identification and does not imply institutional endorsement, ownership, or responsibility for Scam Ba ’To? unless separately stated by the University.
