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Thursday, April 14, 2022
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Tweet Scoop: Robi Domingo Saddened by Answers of PBB Teen Housemates to Basic Questions, Challenges Content Creators to Fight 'MaJoHa'
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Insta Scoop: Isabel Santos Posts Photos of John Lloyd Cruz with a Puppy (Not His)
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Insta Scoop: Is Pia Wurtzbach Hiding a Ring? Netizens Think So
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Brooklyn Peltz Beckham Marries Nicola Peltz, Takes Her Last Name as His Middle Name
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Insta Scoop: Aiai Delas Alas and Gerald Sibayan Mark Eighth Anniversary
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
The Benevolent Deceptive Officer (Part 1)
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Another Rogue Banker
Biz Buzz recently got hold of confidential information involving a seemingly rogue banker (working for a large local financial institution) who has successfully separated over P20 million from at least two victims.
Word on the street now is that the scammer may have been able to victimize others and make off with as much as P100 million. And here’s the thing: apart from being a ranking bank official, the scammer is also a “she.”
How is this scam perpetrated? This rogue banker, along with a number of suspected coconspirators, has apparently been engaging in illegal banking practices by enticing victims to park their funds in so-called Special Peso Time Deposit accounts.
But instead of putting the victims’ funds in the offered investment facility (which doesn’t exist), this scammer deposits the money in her own personal bank account.
As soon as the victims started looking for their money, this rogue female banker flew the coop, and Biz Buzz heard she recently took a commercial flight to Tokyo, Japan, after which the trail went cold. Her whereabouts are currently unknown.
Incidentally, the funds—originally deposited in one bank—were found to have been transferred to another financial institution within hours, and were soon after withdrawn.
In addition to going after the rogue banker who is now nowhere to be found, the victims are considering filing charges under the Anti-Money Laundering Act against the banking institutions involved. Watch this space, folks.
The Benevolent Deceptive Officer (Part 2)
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Rogue Banker and . . . Rogue Client?
So last week, we told you about a rogue banker who fled to Japan after allegedly scamming clients of a large bank and making off with as much as P100 million in “placements”—placements that were apparently entrusted to her by the clients, but went straight to her personal account instead of going to a bank-approved investment.
Well, Biz Buzz learned that the bank in question has been doing a lot of sleuthing of its own ever since this case came to light recently, and the findings of its crack team of investigators are proving to be a real eye opener.
For one, they looked into the background of one complainant—a person allegedly scammed of her hard-earned money—and found a lot of question marks as to how she had that kind of money in her possession to invest.
The probers think her personal background and circumstances simply do not support her contention that she had tens of millions of pesos to invest.
While other victims really did lose their money to the scam, the investigators are now wondering if this one complainant is being completely forthright about the supposed missing investments. Was she a conduit for someone else? Was she complicit in the scam? That’s what they trying to find out.
Abangan!
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