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The Kapa-Community Ministry International (Cebuano: Kabus Padatuon, lit. 'enrich the poor'; a.k.a Kapa) was one of the biggest financial investment fraud scandals in Philippine history. An estimated five million people including Noel were duped by the religious company Kapa-Community Ministry International, which promised a 30% monthly return ...
The Coco Levy Fund Scam was a controversy in the 1970s and 1980s in the Philippines involving former President Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies.It was alleged that Marcos, Danding Cojuangco, Juan Ponce Enrile, and others conspired to tax coconut farmers, promising them the development of the coconut industry and a share of the investments, but on the contrary used the collection fund for ...
Multi-level marketing / Pyramid scheme. Aman Futures Group (simply referred as Aman Futures) was an investment and privately held company based in Malaysia with branches in the Philippines. [1] It has also been allegedly engaged in a pyramid scheme. [2][3] The group was founded by Manuel K. Amalilio, a Filipino of Malaysian descent.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
maharlika.dof.gov.ph. The Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF), also known as the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), is a sovereign wealth fund for the Philippines which is managed by the Maharlika Investment Corporation (MIC). [1] The MIF is the Philippines' first sovereign wealth fund. It will be allocated across a variety of assets, including foreign ...
МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.
Fertilizer Fund scam. The Fertilizer Fund scam is a Philippine political controversy involving accusations that Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante diverted ₱ 728 million in fertilizer funds to the 2004 election campaign of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. " Sha Zhu Pan " [2] or Shazhupan, [3] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Plate, [1] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. [4]