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Date: June 1, 2022, 7:41 p.m.
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Date: 2022-06-08 13:52:02.000000
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Published by National Bureau of Investigation(NBI) on June 1, 2022.
Requested from NBI by C. Quiao at 07:41 PM on
June 1, 2022.
Purpose: Our Safety and Please Take Action to these Lending Apps
Date of Coverage: 06/01/2022 - 06/01/2022
Tracking no: #NBI-741487305398
Greetings! I have this colleague who used my contact info when she applied for a loan in a loan app, I don't know which app was it, and now that app is texting me and sending me death threats. I.e. the following: "IKAW PUTANGINAMO, BAYARAN MO ITONG UTANG NI "**************" KUNG AYAW MONG PATI PAMILYA MO AY IPAPATAY KO,PUTANGINAMO KA EH SABI NYA NGA IKAW MAGBAYAD NITO MGA MAGNANAKAW KAYO WAG NYONG HINTAYIN PATI BAHAY NYO IPASUNOG KO NANDITO ANG DETAILS NYO NAKALIMUTAN NYO ATA. MAGBAYAD KAYONG PUTANGINANYO NGAYON!!!". Please take action to these kind of lending apps.
June 8, 2022 Dear Angelica, Greetings! Thank you for your message under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Please be informed that the NBI-FOI team handles requests for documents, data or information on NBI programs and services. For complaints and requests for investigation, kindly proceed to our Complaints and Recording Division. (CRD), Vtech Tower, G. Araneta Avenue (C-3), corner Ma. Clara Street, Barangay Sto. Domingo, Quezon City or to NBI Regional or District Office nearest you and submit your complaint- affidavit together with all other documentary pieces of evidence that you may adduce on your behalf. Meanwhile, you may also reach out to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as regards your complaint with the lending company. You may follow this link: http://www.sec.gov.ph/lending-companies-and-financing-companies/complaints/. If unhappy with the response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by sending an email to [email protected] Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, FOI Receiving Officer