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Not Getting Scammed in the Philippines — Update 1

January 06, 2009 By: Philly Category: Uncategorized

Here’s a little news item I my dear wife pointed out to me this afternoon:

The biggest law firm in the country allegedly fell victim to a multi-million-peso scam.

Sources in other law firms told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak that Sycip Salazar Hernandez Gatmaitan, one of the leading local law firms, was duped by a foreign client into advancing P50 million for a deal that would supposedly bring around P100 million to the firm’s earnings.

The law firm was reportedly promised five percent of its client’s $50 million-claim. However, in order to get their cut, the firm was first asked to advance P50 million…. read the full Philippine scam report article here

Once again, it would seem that an expereinced, educated attorney in a high-level management position fell victim to exactly what I wrote about recently regarding the key to virtually all scams, Philippine or elsewhere … getting money that really wasn’t his .. or his firm’s.

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Just advance us x amount of money and you too will benefit from money which was never yours in the first place.

The article goes on to outline a number of famous scams from recent Philippine history.  Note the common theme … advance us some money and you’ll get more than you know is yours … a special deal for you to get ahead … insider information only.  In plice terminology this is know as the advance-fee fraud scheme

Once agin I’ll maintain what I’ve often said, and what many notorous ‘confince men’ have said in the past … you can’t scam an honest man.  If it is too good to be true … it is likely that it is.

Why You Can’t Get a Job — Intro

January 04, 2009 By: Philly Category: Live There

From time to time here on PhilFAQS, the destination site for information about living in the Philippines, I actually try to give useful advice.

One query I get often, both in personal contact and via searches that lead people to this site via Google and other search engines is: Finding a job in the Philippines.

Another top topic here and among a large percentage of Filipinos I know who are looking for work is resumes and job qualifications.  So this post series is going to apply opretty much eqyally to foreigners wnating to find a job in the Philippines and Filipinos wnating to find a job … well, anywhere I guess ;-)

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