Monday, October 31, 2016

Verify sources of your shares and repost - they could be fake or misleading

Rizal Philippines
October 31, 2016

Some posts could be prank or false information (we have no way of verifying from the web)

Some of the near disaster posts that I nearly fell victim too:

1.  That an arrest warrant would be served to a lady govt official  (talse)

2.  That a driver lover alleged linked to a drug problem has been arrested (false)

3.  That going to US would no longer require visa (false)

4.  That FB would soon require payment (false  FB would forever be free)

So ingat lang mga bloggers, social media users.   Verify your sources.  Baka makuryente

Saturday, October 15, 2016

List of top scams that you must be aware of

There will be less educated scam victims

From Consumer Fraud report

The top 5 Philippine Scam

  1.  The Aman futures led by a Malaysian Manuel K. Amalilio who duped some P12 billion pesos especially in Visayas and Mindanao involving some 15,000 individuals.  This was in 2012.  They promised 50 to 80% returns within 17 to 20 days.  Amalilio was arrested because of fake passport but has not been extradited to the Philippines

  2.  The Legacy group.  Led by Mr. Celso de los Angeles.  They promised double your money in five years. and used rural banks to get the money from the public

As of 2008, the bank accumulated a total of P467 million deposits but had negative networth of P239 million.   When it was closed on December 12, 2008 it had only Cash on Hand of P1 million.

We had 2x your money for some of our projects but we paid them on time.

PDIC had advanced a total of P11 billion to the Legacy group

3.  PDAF (by Napoles involving senators, congressmen)  They were able to defraud a total of P10 billion pesos by siphoning funds to fake NGO, and then paying back to com to the sponsoring solons.   This may have had the blessing of top govt officials.

4.  Multitel led by Rose Balajadjay.  The damage could have been in the order of P100 billion .  The funny thing about this is that they were able to get endorsements of top SEC officials (who later stopped their operations)  The scheme involved 2x your money for a minimum of P10,000 for a lock in period of 18 months  The counselors were paid 20% commission.

5.  PIPC involved Singaporean Michael Lew  and wealthy Filipinos and promised interest/yield of 4.5% daily for a minimum of $1,000  which could be encashed via the internet.  Lew was estimated to have fled with $150 million to $240 million of investors money.


Characteristic of Scams

There will be  less educated scam victims

There was this feature at ANC Money portion on scams.  The scams are characterized by the following:

1.  The deal is complicated.  It could be difficult to understand for a layman to understand;

2.  There is no such thing as guaranteed high continuous earnings.  If the promoter promises that, then it is a scam.

3.  Keep it a secret.  If others know about this, then you may lose the opportunity;

4.  The un educated, the lower SEC, the more numerous ones are victims,   They lack financial literacy.

5.  Scams happen because the investors never bother to check with DTI and SEC for licenses.

Watch out for these signs.

They were present in:

Balajadyay  Celso de los Angeles,

How about the pre need?  Were they scams?