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View Poll Results: Pyramiding and other similar money scams, have you been a victim?

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  1. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #1
    Pyramiding and other similar money scams, have you been a victim?

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    Oct 2002
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    #2
    personally no but my gf has been a victim (but not pyramiding).

  3. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #3
    not yet... still in the making... and hoping it will not.. 8)

  4. Join Date
    Nov 2002
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    #4
    meron ako yung e card dyan sa boni yung office pero di ko masiguro kung scam nga yun pero narecruit ako kahiyaan kasi e sa kapit bahay ko medyo mura lang naman 1400.00 or 1900.00 yung insured ka daw for 1 year and then kapag wala nangyari sa iyo on that year wala na goodbye na sa pera mo ano sa tingin mo scam ba yun!!!!

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    Oct 2002
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    #5
    YES... nang dahil sa Relatives ko rin kaya ako victim ng bwisit na MMG na yan.. I lost 6000$.. damn isang kotse na rin yon na second hand

  6. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #6
    Wala pa naman.
    The nerve of that Baladjay on TV ha!
    She claims to be a "victim" pa!!

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    Dec 2002
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    #7
    Muntik na, balak ko din maginvest sa MMG last January. Buti nalang at ibinili ko nalang nga camera...

  8. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #8
    muntik na din, last year ng mag plan mag palit ng car, I plan na mag invest sa TMG, half nung budget ko yung half pang down payment, pero ayaw ng wife ko dahil di daw ok sa kanya easy money, kaya sa second hand ulit kami. buti na lang

  9. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #9
    first time was with a friend of my wife. Buti na lang medyo maliit lang USD230. Last year muntik na nung bumili ako ng car namin (2nd hand only). Balak ko sana ipostpone pagbili para patubuan muna pero decided to buy the car (atat na atat na kasi).

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    Jan 2003
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    my mom, pag uwi nya tuwang tuwa pa sya, she was very excited to tell us about it, tapos she even got me and my dad accounts into that pyramid.

    nung sinabi ko na pyramid yana at lokohan yan, nagalit pa sa akin,

    next day nasa news na yung company ng pyramid, sabi tawagan nya yung kaibigan nya at bawiin yung pera. di na nya nahabol na ibigay na daw kasi sa office. 15k down the drain.

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    May 2006
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    #11
    I've been offered many times. Some of my clients, even compelled me to their meetings/seminars, sa mga hotels.

    I didn't invest on any of these, except for one...it was called Skybiz.

    I agreed to it, because of a friend who did me a big favor that time. I didn't have the heart to turn him down. About P5 to 6k.

    I never activated my "downline". It stopped with me. My friend did ask me why, and I just told him I didn't have the time.

    That friend of mine eventually lost about P700,000. He told his wife P70k lang.
    Last edited by HIFI; August 28th, 2007 at 01:12 PM.

  12. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    #12
    when i was in college, nag skybiz din ako hehehe mga 98-99 yata.

    Quote Originally Posted by HIFI View Post
    I've been offered many times. Some of my clients, even compelled me to their meetings/seminars, sa mga hotels.

    I didn't invest of any of these, except for one...it was called Skybiz.

    I agreed to it, dahil he was a friend who did me a big favor that time. I didn't have the heart to turn him down. About P5 to 6k.

    I never activated my "downline". It stopped with me. My friend did ask me why, and I just told him I didn't have the time.

    That friend of mine eventually lost about P700,000. He told his wife P70k lang.

  13. Join Date
    Oct 2003
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    #13
    anyone who has invested in PNOC? I think for employees lang ito pero pwede kayong maki ride. Php 500,000 (or any amount) invested for 1 year will yield Php 10,000 per month less taxes.

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    Oct 2002
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    #14
    nung sinabi ko na pyramid yana at lokohan yan, nagalit pa sa akin,
    most nga ng nasabihan na ganyan...ay nagagalit instead of magdalawang isip na nagkamali sila ng desisyon.... pity

  15. Join Date
    May 2007
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    #15
    Di pa naman ako nabibiktima nyan and im hoping that it stays that way! Hirap mawalang ng pera lalo na ngayn....lapit na Christmas

Money scams, have you been a victim?