a. What is the general question?

Despite our current laws, why does

investment scams subsist?
b. Why is the question important? Statistics of people who have been
victims of investment scams all through these years.
c. What literature it mostly connects with?
d. What methodology or approach you expect to use to address your
question?
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Introduction
a. Objectivies/Purpose of the Study b. Theoretical Framework (if necessary)
c. Significance of the Study
d. Scope and limitation of the Study
Review of Related Literature
Methodology/Research Design
Working Bibliography
Budgetary requirements
Timeline of activities and expected outputs

Righting Others Wrongs

A CRITICAL LOOK AT CLAWBACKS IN MADOFFTYPE PONZI SCHEMES AND OTHER FRAUDS
One in every 100 Filipinos has fallen prey to various investment scams that lure people with hefty returns in a short
period of time, wiping out more than P25 billion worth of hard-earned money to date. Lalaine Monserate, assistant
director in charge of investigations and prosecution at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned the public
against putting hard-earned money into suspicious investment schemes that
use social media and promise huge returns in a short period of time.
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According to the SEC, no secondary license has been issued to One
Lightning Corporation. It is not supposed to be soliciting investments or selling
investment products to anyone in the Philippines.
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Anyone with money [can be victimized], she added, noting that the victims come from across the A,
B, and C segments, including government and private sector employees and retirees with educational
backgrounds.
The most popular investment fraud schemes in the country, Ms. Monserate said, is the Ponzi scheme
-- which promises high financial returns or dividends of up to 6-29% per month to its investors -- and
the pyramid scheme -- which rewards participants for inducing other people to join the program.
Currently, she said, regulators are finding it harder to track scammers with the advent of social media,
and how such schemes no longer require face-to-face transactions, have no paper trail, no principal
office, no permanent venue in its conduct of business opportunity meetings and not registered with
the SEC or the Trade department, no business name, uses only Web sites as their platform, and how
these scams have become more global in scope.
Scammers are always two steps ahead of regulators, the SEC official said.
a scam is usually to have an attractive foreign sounding name like Aman Futures or Performance Forex or Multitel
and they may even have a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration and or a business permit from
the municipality.
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Government regulators have limited resources to fight financial fraud.

Experts warn that no one is completely immune to the seductive pitch of
the investment con artist who will tell potential victims exactly what they
want to hear.