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BUREAU of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco warned the public anew against con artists using the name of the agency to dupe people of money.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tansingco issued the warning after the BI received a request for verification from a Filipina whose American partner is allegedly being held at the airport last May 15.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The American partner was supposedly handed an order to pay P40,000 as penalty for arriving with undocumented foreign currency found in his luggage, which exceeds the legal amount.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier this month, the BI also received a request for verification from a Filipina whose supposed Korean partner was arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for the exact same circumstances.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A fake BI Facebook account reportedly sent a message to the Filipina demanding payment of 350 USD for fines.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tansingco clarified that immigration does not deal with incoming currency nor with luggage, thus the supposed order is a scam.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He said that he is glad that there is more awareness now and that people are coming forward to verify demands for payment.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The official said verification requests can be sent to the BI\u2019s Facebook account at Facebook.com\/officialbureauofimmigration or via their hotline at +632 8 4652400<\/strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BUREAU of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Norman Tansingco warned the public anew against con artists using the name of the agency to dupe people of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}