Mayor disowns FB solicitations

DAVAO City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio warned that an impostor is pretending to be her and is soliciting money from gullible netizens over Facebook for alleged grants and loans.

Turning to social media, Duterte-Caprio posted: "This is to warn everyone about a scam pretending to be me on Facebook, sending friend requests and private messages about my supposed partnership with a 'financing structure' that offers a grant or loan amounting $5,000 to $5,000,000. This account is fake. I do not have an FB messenger and I never ask people for money."

A closer look at the FB account of the poseur

will show that in the information about the account, the impostor identifies himself as "mayor on UM Davao city".

The private message sent by the impostor reads:

"As mayor of Davao, in order to meet the needs of the Filipino population, I have partnered with a financing structure that grants loans from $5,000 to $5,000,000 at a low annual interest rate. 3 % with the possibility to repay for 40 years. For more information please contact the structure at simoneelisabeth57@gmail.com."

A screen capture of this private message was sent to the City Information Office.

The city mayor said that this is another attempt of unscrupulous individuals to dupe people using her name.

April last year, Duterte-Carpio also warned the public against a scammer using her name soliciting money to buy land for a drug rehabilitation facility in Palawan.