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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Sen. Villar Warns Those Who Use Her Name and Their Foundations in Scams

Text scams and social media post using prominent names of public officials or government offices are not new in our country.

Common names being used in scams are the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office or PCSO and the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas allegedly that the receiver of the text messages has won a big prize.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Pinay, Japanese friends, loses P1.2-M in investment scam; warns OFWs

"If It's Too Good To Be True, It's Not True." They say this quote is the best investment advice. We often hear this saying but sometimes we are still carried away by sweet promises.

Just like a Filipina based in Japan who falls into investment scam offered on social networking sites.

The victim, "Sarah", not her real name said, she and her friends in Japan loose up to P1.2 million pesos in an investment scam.

Sarah believes that the business offer presented to her by a woman who introduced herself as "Princess Polinar Micabalo" from Ozamiz City, was true.

She met Micabalo in a group chat from social networking site Reahlity Hartz Hardships or Your Helping Hands Profit Sharing and began to woo her into investing in several opportunities.

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Sarah invested P180,000 and after a month, she received P225,000 payout.

Because of this, the victim encourages her Japanese friends to also invest their money in the business. Their pooled investment reached P1.2 million.

According to Sarah, she did not doubt Micabalo because she was very transparent to talk to and even sent her two "valid" identification cards and a contract and also posted her photos online.

But after the money was deposited, she heard nothing from Micabalo and her social media account has been deactivated.

In the end, Sarah still delivered on her financial promise to her friends in Japan.

Sarah added, she learned that Micabalo has been scamming people, especially OFWs, for years now.

She also warns OFWs who wants to invest their hard-earned money to investigate first the offered investment before giving in.

Accordingly, Micabalo uses different investment names to entice people but uses the same name and photo to transact with would-be-victims.

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

WARNING:FACEBOOK "ONLINE PALUWAGAN" VICTIMS SEEK THE HELP OF THE NBI

Online scams are growing like mushrooms especially in the social media,particularly on Facebook.With a promise of easy money and huge return of investment in a short period of time,the victims are being lured to the glitter of wealth and their sugar coated adverts.If you are not smart enough,you will fall victim to their glary snare.And just like mushrooms,they just disappear after they get what they want leaving the victims grieving and lost.

A certain "Erika",a wife of an Overseas Filipino Worker has invested Php500,000 just before the founder of the online scam suddenly disappear with hers and the other victims' money.For Erika,its not only that she lost her money.When her OFW husband found out what happend,her husband also left her.

The "online paluwagan" promises to give you around 40% or higher return of investment in only 3-5 days.Below is an example of the matrix some online paluwagan admins are using:

According to ABS-CBN News,15 victims of the scam went to NBI to help them find a certain Crista Acedo Jumao-as who has been already filed with multiple counts of estafa and is now subject to manhunt .

NBI warned the public that if the transactions are made only in social media and offering too good to be true returns,you should be aware that you might be dealing with a scammer.

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Dominador Say, undersecretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), said that talks are underway with Chinese embassy officials on this possibility. China’s five major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen will soon be the destination for Filipino domestic workers who are seeking higher income.

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