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Boiler room scam philippines.
Advertising the suspects were arrested at 6 25am today wednesday august.
Police identified the suspects as jesse scott aged 47 and barry rosen 60 from canada and american richard racioppi jr 56.
Advertising two canadians and an american have been arrested in muntinlupa city for posing as brokers of security firms in an alleged boiler room scam.
Hot sales tactics have typically been the main marketing instrument to attract clients for unregulated brokers.
Manila philippines eight foreigners and 24 filipino women were arrested for allegedly operating a boiler room for a multi million investment scam targeting australians at their office.
From first hand observation in the philippines and an opportunity to scrutinise their operational paperwork in their boiler room workplace it s clear that this con was clever and well executed.
Police described the fraudulent investment company as a boiler room operation which is a way of solicitation or selling of securities under high pressure sales tactics eleazar said the targets of the scam are retirees and pensioners who are enticed to invest in stocks of an alleged security firm.
The call center was allegedly soliciting customers to trade stocks and is akin to a boiler room operation.
Ifw continues to investigate boiler room scams in the philippines.
That said the possibility that an fx or binary options trading firm is involved in the matter is not out of the question.
Philippine investigators are sending an alert due to the significant number of reported cases this year.
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