6 alleged scammers charged

SIX alleged scammers were charged with large scale swindling and violation of the Cyber Crime Law by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

Lawyer Alex Cabornay, NBI head of agents, said Wenchelmie Acosta and Mary Ann Villapa who both surrendered to NBI were charged last week.

Also included is a family, Donie Rose Pagaspas, Kim Pagaspas, and their father Pablito Pagaspas.

Donnie Pagaspas, according to Cabornay, is a close friend of Antonette Sestoso, the first person who was charged in relation with the scam.

Pagaspas allegedly acted as “admin” of Sestoso.

“When Antonette was out of town, during the time when she was in Camiguin, it was Donnie who entertained the investors and it was her father Pablito, and younger sister Kim who received some of the invested money,” Pagaspas said.

There are now a total of seven personalities involved in a scam done through Facebook.

All of them used Facebook as a platform lure people to invest by posting an offer where one should give P1,000, and then it can turn to either P1,500, P1,700, or P2,000 in just a span of 10 days.