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One Dream nightmare

By Rey Gamboa | August 5, 2015 - 10:00am

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s website has an investment scam checklist, which comes with a fairly understandable chart, to aid page viewers on how to spot scammers who are out to dupe people in get-rich-quick...

Business

Ponzi Scheme: Bank’s liability

By Fidel O. Abalos | February 4, 2013 - 12:00am

A known German psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm (1900-1980), once wrote, that “greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction&rdq...

Freeman Cebu Business

Lawyer gets 20 years for pyramiding scheme

February 23, 2010 - 12:00am

A lawyer engaged in a “pyramiding scheme” was sentenced yesterday to suffer a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment after he was found guilty of estafa.

Cebu News

Court of Appeals lifts freeze order on 9 Legacy bank accounts

By Edu Punay | May 23, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines – The Court of Appeals (CA) has lifted the freeze order on nine bank accounts of Legacy Consolidated Plans Inc. that were cleared by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) from the...

Headlines

The Bernard Madoff-Delos Angeles parallelism

By Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. | May 9, 2009 - 12:00am

The massive extent of the money-bilking by the Legacy Group of Cesar delos Angeles is almost on-all-fours with that plotted by Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff.

Freeman Opinion

Public warned on money schemes

March 23, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - Bank depositors should suspect something fishy when they are presented with interest rates way above what the market dictates, Monetary Board member Ignacio Bunye said yesterday.

Headlines

'Criminal geniuses'

February 5, 2009 - 12:00am

There are a lot of “criminal geniuses” all over the world, and they mostly prey on the greed of people for easy money and quick profit.

Business

GLOBAL NEWS: US Congressmen sound off against SEC in Madoff affair

January 6, 2009 - 7:15am

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican and Democratic House members said yesterday that the alleged $50 billion fraud involving Wall Street figure Bernard Madoff reflects deep, systemic problems at the Securities and...

Mad-off with billions

December 18, 2008 - 12:00am

Global markets continue to feel the shockwaves brought by the latest financial scandal involving US financier and Wall Street wiz Bernard Madoff who had been accused of engaging in a $50 billion pyramid scam.

Business

Scammers find plenty who are desperate and greedy

By Rey Gamboa | July 27, 2007 - 12:00am

Business