Over a dozen victims of a high-profiled investment scam in the City of Manila on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 22, trooped at the BITAG Multimedia Network (BMN) headquarters in Quezon City to seek the help of the long-running investigative public service program Pambansang Sumbungan: #ipaBITAGmo.
Program host and fearless investigative journalist Mr. Ben Tulfo attended the victims.
Initial information gathered by BITAG Media Digital (BMD) revealed that the victims were intentionally and deliberately profiled by a certain “Patricia” who identified herself as a business partner of a prominent local official and a high-ranking general of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
One of the complainants is a businesswoman who invested more than P9 million.
The complainant said Patricia recruited her to invest in a lending business that caters loan activity to vendors and local businesses in Divisoria.
The ‘scammer’ allegedly enticed the victims to invest their money to get 7 to 10 percent monthly profit.
Victims are also overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have exhausted their savings to invest in the company.
One complainant is a tricycle driver who was enticed to gamble the P800,000 savings of their Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association (TODA) to get profit from the company.
Furthermore, the hiding respondent collected more or less P100 million from the victims.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ben Tulfo asked the complaints to gather all residual documents and paper trails to support their complaint.
Seasoned investigative journalist Ben Tulfo also vowed to give proper evaluation and resolution to the victims.
