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00:00According to PAOK, some operators from Pogo moved to online lending applications.
00:06This was followed by their discussion in the office of two apps that are being claimed to be threatening and harassing those who have not yet paid their debts.
00:17Salima Refran brought the news.
00:20I will be beheaded. I will not go out because I will be shot. I will be shot. My whole family will be killed.
00:33Floor's actions are very threatening and threatening.
00:37She did not realize that she will not be able to pay her debts to the online lending app, OOLA.
00:42I thought I should just finish everything.
00:44But I thought more about my children's well-being. They need me more. They need their mother more.
00:51It is better to be loved in life than to be harassed.
00:56Our family will be harassed. They are using pornographic material.
01:03Even your grandparents, they will edit their faces.
01:07And where they will post it, it will be worse than what they will post on the website.
01:13For those who have good credit and good payers, they were forced to re-loan.
01:19I was forced to re-loan even though I didn't want to. That's where they harassed me.
01:24They re-loaned me P15,000. I only received P7,000.
01:29If I will return that within a second, I will have to return the P15,000.
01:33I called them every day starting at 6 a.m. Every five minutes, I called them.
01:38Different numbers, different texts.
01:41The more that they instantly give you, the bigger the sacrifice.
01:47You will drown because their interest is 40 to 50 percent.
01:52Aside from interest, they also have hidden charges, penalties.
01:57So instead of being able to repay your loan, which you didn't get in full,
02:02you will drown in interest and penalties.
02:09That's why the NBI and PAOC discussed the two online lending applications in Makati
02:14on the visa of Sir Chuarat.
02:16They also submitted scripts to computers to request loans and to ask for a loan.
02:24There are many people who have committed suicide, lost their lives, have depression.
02:31How many clients do you harass every day?
02:33100 plus.
02:35How do you harass or ask for a loan?
02:37Reminders so that they can advance.
02:42Are you also the one who is threatening and threatening the people who have committed suicide?
02:47No, we don't do that.
02:49131 Filipinos were investigated by the NBI and PAOC for the raid on online lending applications last week.
02:58But only 117 will be faced with complaints of violation of the Data Privacy Act.
03:05That's because there are those who went against the law and chose to be witnesses.
03:10We have witnesses who were convinced to be witnesses against the company.
03:16In their opinion, there are those who are doing wrong things to the company
03:20because of the harassment and threats they are doing to their clients.
03:26In an investigation by the PAOC on online lending applications,
03:30several operators were transferred to Pugo.
03:33These are now prohibited.
03:35They saw this during a raid on an online lending company in Makati in October 2023.
03:41This is also big. If you combine all of this, this is probably billions.
03:46What they earn from this.
03:48What's heavy here is that they earn from the blood and sweat of our countrymen.
03:56We have established that this is not just locally, but internationally, their operation.
04:04What we see here is that Chinese are also running.
04:07What's new is that the employees are Filipinos.
04:11What's saddening here is that Filipinos are being fooled here.
04:17And the ones who are being fooled, the ones who are harassing,
04:21the ones who are causing internal pain are also Filipinos.
04:26And these are the ones who are following them, the ones who are running the operation,
04:31are the Chinese or foreign nationals who are serving as the bosses of these loan applications.
04:38The SEC, or Securities and Exchange Commission,
04:41is the one who is in charge of the financial lending instruments,
04:44such as online lending applications on platforms.
04:47Since 2023, they have already received 24,000 complaints about the unfair debt collection of loans.
04:55But only more than 300 have formalized their complaints.
04:59There are cases filed by the SEC in the fiscal year,
05:03as well as the corporations that hold the loans being complained about.
05:07In the SEC Circular 2019-18, the most prohibited debt collection practices are listed,
05:14such as embezzlement, blackmail, and information theft.
05:19Permission to access gallery, contacts, cameras, microphone, those are really prohibited.
05:27We officially write our partners and request for removal.
05:33Monetary penalty, suspension, revocation after the due process.
05:37Sarima Nefra reporting for GMA Integrated News.