On September 15, two people fell victim to swindling to which the victims lost at least Php 900,000.00.
She calls herself MELODY TEVES STEELE with a foreign surname coz she claims to be married to an american from where all her money are sourced (kuno).
SO THAT OTHERS MAY KNOW AND BE CAUTIONED!
Melody's(the swindler) modus is this:
1.check in at resorts/pension houses in the provinces for 2-3weeks and look for REAL property (house and lot or lot only);
2.pose as a SURE-BUYER for a certain property;
3.Contact the owners even if living abroad or temporarily therein for work;
4.negotiate the price (but not too low) and then and there offer to buy it;
5.excites/overwhelms the seller-victim and would ask him/her to come home to Cebu for the preparation of the documents and for the eventual purchase;
6.While the seller-victim is still abroad, order jewelry worth 300K or 100K depending on her mood;
7.Once the seller-victims comes to Cebu, gets the jewelries and tells the latter that the price of the jewelry will just be deducted from the selling price;
8.Gets thru the notion of preparing the documents (gets tax clearance certificates, tax declarations, goes to BIR to have computations for unpaid taxes, etc.)(she does this in behalf of the seller to make it appear that she is excited to buy the property)
9.Then, once she has information of the above tax due on the property she then advances these payments saying that payment will be made by her personally to clear the properties of any taxes before the supposed sale and will even make you execute a Special Power of Attorney (believe she is so good that the seller-victim would entrust the monies to her to effect such payment but she never pays them);
10.Not content, she brings with her managers check of an amount MORE than the selling price and names these checks in the seller-victim (so that you won’t ask her to encash the checks first because it is in the name of the seller-victim and not in her name. she does this in purpose so that even the seller-victim themselves can’t encash them because NO sale has yet been perfected) grabe jud ka maro!;
11.With the checks in her hands and with the seller-victim’s eyes on the check, she then asks the former(seller-victim) that she will advance the change (sukli sa sobra sa check ky sobra man iya i-issue na manager’s check) (and believe me she moves heaven and earth to kiss each other when she talks);
12. She brings and gets everybody involved in the transaction and puts them in the notion that the sale will eventually happen and the only day to wait is that “Monday” which is the next banking day on that very weekend;
13.Come “Monday” when everyone is finished dressing up for the big day, suddenly the phone rings and a teary-and-torn-voice from the other side of the phone cries and says… “nawala na c Melody, Sir”.. (she suddenly disappers to God knows where)
That very day, a Japanese lessor-investor who had to come to Cebu from Japan with his wife lost around Php 650,000.00 cash and Php 300,000.00 worth of jewelry. On that same day, an OFW who had to fly from Hong Kong and leave work (and make a lot of extensions just for the supposed deal) lot around Php 100,000.00 worth of jewelry excluding air fares.
She brought all the seller-victims to a hotel to check with her for more than a week in and out but eventually leaves them at dawn before the very morning for the supposed sale and also leaves them the bill of the hotel rooms including that of her own.
The Japanese is our family friend and business partner.
By the way, just this March 2014, a poor lady from a northern town here in Cebu had to sell her carabao, pawn jewelry of her relatives, and borrow money just to open an ATM at the request of this swindler to pay the taxes (kuno) of her lot which Melody also promised to buy. Then, she was brought to the city and was just left in some hotel and Melody got all the money.
Sellers BEWARE! Please DO NOT DEAL WITH THIS PERSON!
ANY INFORMATION OF HER WHEREABOUTS OR IF ANYONE KNOWS HER, PLEASE TEXT ME AT 09155003833..
Beware of this swindler!!
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