UNION CITY, CA — A former employee of a travel agency based in San Francisco is alleged to have scammed customers travelling to Manila. Bogus airline tickets were sold and were therefore dishonoured upon presentation by the passenger over the airline counter upon departure.
Category: Consumer Advocate
Woman electrocuted while using mobile phone
June 27, 2014 — A Filipina nurse was killed while talking on a phone that was plugged into a faulty charger.
The dirtiest (and cleanest) produce on the market
For the fourth year running, the environmental working group (a non-profit public health organization) says that apples are the dirtiest produce out there. What do they mean by that? They mean pesticides. 99 percent of apples that were checked had some sort of pesticide residue on them.
‘Pump Jump’ can add a few cents or dollars to your fuel costs
Are you sure you got all the petrol you paid for the last time you refuelled your vehicle?
“How Shoes.com rips off Australian online shoppers” by Shop-A-Holic
In this fast-paced society that we live in today, we are enticed by overflowing on-line discounts, flat-rates to free shipping thus saving us time and money. It’s like a shopping haven. You can visit over 100 shops in one day which is next to impossible if you are to visit in person.
Calamity Loan available for Pag-ibig members
Members currently in the country but have left Tacloban can apply for loan in any of the 48 branches of Pag-IBIG. They can also transact at the OFW Center which entertains all Pag-IBIG-related transactions including housing loan application.
Man swallowed maggots from Woolworths chicken
7 News: December 16, 2013, 9:20 am A man from Victoria has slammed supermarket giant Woolworths after reportedly swallowing maggots that were inside a barbecued chicken.
Gutter oil used for cooking in China
China’s food safety problems have no better symbol than the illegal and utterly disgusting problem of gutter oil. Cooking oil is used heavily in Chinese food, so some street vendors and hole-in-the-wall restaurants buy cheap, black market oil that’s been recycled from garbage. You read that correctly. Enterprising men and women will go through dumpsters, […]
Digital Movie Camera is crap
Beware of a roving van marked “Courier” that is selling 3D Imaging Digital Movie Cameras. The Asian looking driver stops to ask for directions and then casually asks any unwary person if he/she is interested in buying a movie camera. The driver claims that he had an excess supply of brand new units he is […]
A Very Cunning Scam
There is a new and very clever credit card scam — be wary of those who come bearing gifts. It just happened to some people a week or so ago in Sydney, and it can pretty well now be happening anywhere else in Australia.
Arsenic Chicken by Bernie V. Lopez
(Editor’s note: The author warns that we might be eating chicken that has been fed with arsenic chicken feed.) This is an alert to all consumers and importers of US chicken and/or chicken feed. A study done by the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, which took chicken samples from grocers in ten major […]
International ATM card scam hits the Philippines
MANILA. – An international modus operandi involving ATM cards has reached the Philippines and already siphoned off “millions of pesos.”