- Public school teachers lost around P100K to a woman scammer
- Money were given to the woman as down payment for gadgets and appliances
- The woman posed as an employee of the Bureau of Customs
If it’s too good to be true, doubt it.
Apparently, a number of teachers were lured into giving certain amounts of money to a woman who pretended to be an employee at the Bureau of Customs. The supposed down payments were for orders such as gadgets and appliances that the woman said will be taken from a warehouse in Alabang.
The story goes that the woman in question, who used a fictitious name Nana San Diego, paid a visit on Friday morning of last week to Luis Palad National High School in Tayabas City, Quezon to offer some gadgets and appliances purportedly from the bureau — and perhaps at very cheap prices — which lured some teachers to order.
In an article written by Rie Takumi on GMA News, it was disclosed that the teachers there immediately selected some items they want to buy; shelling out some cash as down payments. All in all, their payments amounted to at least a hundred thousand pesos.
Why so trusting?
According to a GMA News stringer Peewee Bacuño, those who had fallen prey to the woman’s ‘items on sale’ believed San Diego’s offer because she’s a friend of one of the school’s faculty members. Besides, two of their male co-teachers would be travelling with San Diego to Alabang to personally get their orders from a warehouse. So everything seemed all right.
However, after reaching the subject warehouse in Alabang, the woman and the two male teachers stopped by a convenience store to grab some bites. San Diego then excused herself; saying she’ll just smoke outside – perhaps while they finish their meal. She did not show up after that smoke excuse, and a few hours more of waiting convinced the two educators that they’ve been had. She’s never coming back.
They filed a complaint at the Alabang Police Station for the grand scam and investigation is ongoing.
Sadly, it also became known that the teachers in their school were not the only ones duped by the woman. It turned out that city hall employees in their area were also scammed by the bogus employee using the very same modus operandi.
In December of 2014, a man lost P120,000 after falling victim to an impostor who also pretended to be an employee of the Bureau of Customs in Manila. He was offered 3 MacBook Pro and 6 pcs of iPhone 6; under the pretext that those are low-priced because the items are tax-free. See? Another too good to be true offer.
(Photo Credit: GMA)
Meanwhile, here’s a photo of the suspect in the Tayabas school scam. Anyone who has information on the whereabouts and identity of the scammer woman, please call the proper authorities so that wrongdoers may be placed where they rightfully belong — jail.
SOUTHERN POLICE DISTRICT – STATION 5
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