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Friday, May 31, 2013

Public warned against 8 scams

Eight warnings, against firms suspected of conducting investment scams and unauthorized sale of securities, have been issued to the public by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

These eight companies under watch are the following:
  • Cardlink - provides telemarketing services for credit cards, loans, non-life insurance, insurance and different types of business services "items of commercial value"; not licensed by the Insurance Commission (IC) to act as an Insurance agency.
  • Future Net - networking-reliant business; offers direct and indirect referral commissions, net loan commission, and satellite referral commission; within a short period of time, that are dependent on number of recruits. The SEC thinks FutureNet cannot engage in investment-taking business since it's a non-stock and non-profit organization.
  • JustBeenPaid - an online activity (possible investment scam) which attracts students (from the Negrs Oriental State University in Dumaguete City) to initially invest P950.00 and earn a guaranteed daily 10 to 20 percent of the initial investment, and join a profit clicking activity by liking a certain page three times a day.
  • OK's Global - employs mono-lining scheme; authorized by the SEC to sell goods, however, it is not a registered issuer of securities.
  • Evergreen  - not registered with the SEC but recruits applicants for employment under a scheme that requires them to sell a product and pay certain fees.
  • 1Riders - employs multi-level marketing scheme to sell food, toiletries and automotive products even if they have no license from the Food and Drugs Administration to distribute.
  • Finance Global/ Finasia - partners with a credit card company to apply/avail of their services offering lower-cost travel packages; payment is unrecoverable or not retractable, once agreed upon by customer.
  • unknown group of people in Marinduque - introduces themselves as acorporation with  five branches; offers loans (pre-need/memorial plans and insurance plans) to barangay officials and employees which will be paid through salary deduction; no license from the SEC or the Insurance Commision.