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                    [ArticleID] => 1484919
                    [Title] => One Dream nightmare
                    [Summary] => 

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 schemes, either by taking their hard-earned money or enticing them to borrow.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-05 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 904722 [Title] => Ponzi Scheme: Bank’s liability [Summary] =>

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”.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134218 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317599 [AuthorName] => Fidel O. Abalos [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 551885 [Title] => Lawyer gets 20 years for pyramiding scheme [Summary] =>

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.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 470250 [Title] => Court of Appeals lifts freeze order on 9 Legacy bank accounts [Summary] =>

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 list of assets of Mayor Celso de los Angeles Jr.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 465448 [Title] => The Bernard Madoff-Delos Angeles parallelism [Summary] =>

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.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 450842 [Title] => Public warned on money schemes [Summary] =>

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.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 437037 [Title] => 'Criminal geniuses' [Summary] =>

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.

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135879 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 429203 [Title] => GLOBAL NEWS: US Congressmen sound off against SEC in Madoff affair [Summary] =>

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 Exchange Commission.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-06 07:15:18 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 424412 [Title] => Mad-off with billions [Summary] =>

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.

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