The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is warning the public against dealing with three unlicensed businesses who have been soliciting unauthorized investments online. The SEC released advisories on its investigations of the entities identified as 888 Partners Corp. Budgetarian Online Shop,...
The Sandiganbayan has convicted four former officials of the now-defunct Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC) of their graft, malversation, and malversation through falsification charges in the misuse of the P5.4 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Davao del...
GMA talents Mikee Quintos and Paul Salas were at the Makati City Prosecutor’s Office on Monday to file an estafa complaint against a cryptocurrency group. According to a "24 Oras" report, the celebrity couple, along with seven others, filed the complaint after supposedly being duped out of 8...
BACOLOD CITY – Four policemen in this city are being investigated for their alleged involvement in a P15-million Philippine National Police recruitment scam in La Castellana, Negros Occidental. Police Col. Noel Aliño, Bacolod police director, in a media interview, said that these policemen...
One of the several accused in the so-called "pastillas scam" reportedly perpetrated by the Bureau of Immigration (BI) officers and personnel at the airports has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense and was meted out a P5,000 penalty. Immigration Officer II Asliyah A. Maruhom was initially...
CEBU CITY – A Chinese national was rescued from a house allegedly used by his compatriots as their hub for their online scam activities. During the rescue operation, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation-Cebu District Office (NBI-CEBDO) also arrested Chinese national Dixon Zhang and Ian...
The Senate Committee on Ways and Means has released its committee report that recommends the permanent banning of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) in the country. Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian formally filed Committee Report No. 136 containing such recommendation on Wednesday,...
The Sandiganbayan has convicted five persons involved in the misuse of the P9.6 million Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of the late Negros Oriental 3rd District Rep. Herminio G. Teves in 2007. Found guilty of graft and malversation of public funds were former Technology and Livelihood...
CEBU CITY – The National Bureau of Investigation-Central Visayas (NBI-7) has arrested a woman from Naga City, southern Cebu allegedly involved in an investment scam. Eva Ferraris made her victims believe that she was a rice trader and enticed them to invest in her business, said NBI-7 Director...
CEBU CITY – A woman from Oriental Mindoro was accused of duping a female deaf-mute in what authorities described as a “romance scam.” The National Bureau of Investigation-Central Visayas (NBI-7) identified the suspect as Anna Lou Abas Agito of Aurora Boulevard, Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro....
A Filipino who was trafficked to Myanmar and forced to work as a cryptocurrency scammer in a Chinese-led syndicate but was rescued by the government was among the 650 workers authorities found in a suspected “scam hub” in Pasay City. Justice Undersecretary Nicholas Felix Ty of the Inter-Agency...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Yamsuan (Facebook) Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan has filed a measure that would slap hefty penalties against individuals found guilty of phishing and other forms of online fraud. The measure, House Bill (HB) No.7976, seeks to define economic...
