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Monday, June 16, 2025

This post nearly got scammed by former business colleague

 Every minute a sucker is born

I could have been that sucker.

Before there was this former high ranking state university regent Prez of a db, and who ran a housing company.  We did the housing construction for him, he did the bank matters and marketing.   He had a plush office in Makati CBD and was married to a very very rich family.

The last time I heard he was in the land of milk and honey and lately he sought my friendship in a social media and inquired if this post has heard about at World Bank program to give aid to the poor.  This post tried to get access to the website but it was only processing loans.  Then he referred me to a person, a Chinese whom he said processed the grants. He asked me to fill up a form which I did and answered in an hour (without using the agency's form) that I have been approved for $100,000.  However this is the catch I had to pay the delivery charge of 1% of the grant.  I said just deduct from the grant.  I did not hear from them again.

Sounds like a variation of Nigerian scam.  How could a former colleague try to lure me into a scam?  Life is so hard at that country.