Con artists dupe catechist, lotto outlet teller
Swindlers struck Saturday, victimizing a lotto outlet teller and a 72-year-old catechist in separate incidents in Cebu City.
Swindlers struck Saturday, victimizing a lotto outlet teller and a 72-year-old catechist in separate incidents in Cebu City.
Two women selling nonexistent vacation package tours were arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in an entrapment operation on Tuesday.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced Tuesday the arrest of two men who allegedly told a local candidate they could manipulate the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines for a price.
A tip from an informer led to the arrest of a man who is a suspect in a string of swindling cases in Cebu and Mandaue cities.
A suspected member of the swindling “dugo-dugo” gang was arrested by the Malabon Police on Tuesday afternoon after a household worker wised up to his con and arranged an entrapment operation with the police.
The government will likely deport nearly 400 Taiwanese and Chinese arrested in a major telephone scam that swindled millions of dollars from elderly compatriots, police said on Friday.
Malacañang has ordered the Department of Interior and Local Government to investigate allegations that Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte abused his position when he forced a suspected swindler to eat paper.
Hearing the frantic voice of her “mother” on the other end of the line made her fall for one of the oldest tricks in the book.
An ATM swindler caught in Quezon City Tuesday is now facing six counts of theft, Cubao police said on Friday.
CEBU City Police Director Ramon Melvin Buenafe warned the public to beware of swindlers after last Sunday’s arrest of four men who sold lubricants and other industrial products to businessman Mario Quiatan, 40, in a restaurant near Plaza Independencia. Quaitan said he sold his house and lot and a Toyota Fortuner vehicle to raise P1 [...]
Police arrested four men who were accused of swindling a Talisay city resident of P1 milllion.
Beware of the wrath of the elderly. Two senior citizens and a friend have enforced a citizen’s arrest against a woman who they claimed had duped them of close to P300,000 worth of plane tickets and tour packages.
A case of mass swindling was uncovered in Balamban town where individuals in at least 100 transactions had bought land only to find out that fake receipts were issued for their capital gains tax payments. Some victims identified the municipal assessor Tita Yray and two of her staff as receiving their cash payments of P3,000 [...]
