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a scam that starts in the philippines and stretches across the globe. investors are promised the opportunity of a lifetime they all ideas they get you on the hook. but instead are left with shattered dreams and financial ruin the white i ride by a thick of saud and steve cho on this up sort of one on one east we reveal how organized crime is making millions in the philippines. it's the business hub of the philippines where multinational corporations turn over millions in annual profits but then the country district of manila has

a dark underbelly a sun news i'm making a fortune in duty cash by trading fake shares. just a lot a savant report. in secrecy destroy them private investigators in cyber crime expert can gamble is in the final days of an operation to blow open an organized crime ring run by expect roots in the city. we want to document all the people that they're talking to whoever they have contact with type fathers of them we need to figure out who all the associated members of the syndicate lives. the fraudsters have gypped investors around the world a slice selling them shares the don't exist then stealing their money so who obvious goss what are their nationalities. they're americans i come from. from

new york area new jersey. for almost two years can gamble has been watching them he has the only males their bank account details and recordings of their voices he knows everything about them. so they have any idea that you're on to them not now and you're the stone that stays like that for a walk. oblivious to this covert attention the gang operates business as usual the scam is pretend to be from investment houses in america in real life they called manila. some have filipino wives and children into have lived here for twenty years well a very clever at at what i do at the securities fraud but they're not very clever covering the tracks. the crime ring is about to be exposed because one of their own his taking a courageous calls informant x. will call him is about to turn on his associates except they don't know it i meet

him in a discreet location on the edge of manila. a. good first. informant x. is a man with friends an influence on both sides of the law. and the old guard i'm a freak sort of. that's what i do for these guys there are some problems that come to a try and accommodate it most of the time and we will do but now informant takes is planning to help engineer the downfall of the organized crime gang he works fall and along the way he revealed to me the in a workings of an international fraud syndicate it begins with him secretly recording gang members discussing their cut of profits from the scam.

then his decision to inform on the gang takes an extraordinary new dimension so his suitcase what's in it so hold people document the most damning evidence is here x.'s uncovered a trove of hundreds of documents belonging to one of the fraudsters it exposes every aspect of a criminal operation evidence of transactions even the logs or whatever money comes in ingles the documents name the victims investors from the netherlands south africa hong kong singapore papua new guinea new zealand and australia. one stood out the most where he got scammed for a whole lot of. store windows and say what. we.

found from the bustle of manila the provincial center of rockhampton in the australian state of queensland. it's here i find wine brown a hardworking coal mine electrician who should be enjoying financial rewards. right about home on going and that whole every die is hard work i don't see any family for four died out of seven. in only twenty feet. into cash to what he believed was a new york based investment broker he thought he was buying shares. what i do other modern want to keep doing with. there are others all the time. but. there's

a thing. in one's money who's pocketed the so called broken by the name of john paulson. didn't know it at the time but was not a licensed trader even his name was an alias in real life he was an american criminal living in manila. this is the fraud stood talking recorded on wine grounds voicemail. by the way john died a short break here because. jefferson or a top rated as far as i once had like outerwear. so that's john polson john polson bring up there was no one on the world or thought and he was wrong because. but our remote on our seven or no reason to think it was a scam. the man who calls himself john polson is sticking to

a script scammers like emus well proven psychological techniques to entrap the victim's investigator can gamble has seen it all before they're required to get the investor on the hooks at the very first calls that mike designed to get that potential investor to to make a small investment. there's the fear script to reassure nervous investors and one code you need to know who i am i'm going to make you very very rich you need to know who i am because on the man that's going to change your life and that of course you know are coming with someone who's very well spoken with an american accent that sounds like he's calling it a wall straight. then you know the average person is going to believe that. the swindler john paulson is stealing not only money but an identity there is a real john polson he's a successful multi billionaire investor and philanthropist from new york. but the

imposter to those who know him is a thief and a thug he's a heavy drug use and. when you see him you think. i better get out of discourse face or else because it's one of those intimidating guys you say one role being something bad will happen to you. over the next few months sitting at his computer in manila the fake john polson works on his victim whine brown the astrologist persuaded to buy more bogus shares to the value of seven hundred thousand us dollars his portfolio apiece to do well if other is legit gentleman. that old knowledge of the market any given you put forward to me was a good case in the case of wind he. he was led to believe that these shares were valuable and that they went up in value and then that leads into another deal which

is even more lucrative and so on and so on a lot of these guys have worked as brokers they have worked for my defense some of the biggest firms in the world and that come out of those firms and they've gone to the dark side. to bolster his image is a corporate heavyweight the pertains john polson makes up another company name with a grand tied to the lease seem global partners its headquarters supposedly on wall street it's another lie concealed behind a fake website. so this is the police here website correct at least and go about us oh i thought it was legitimate there was no reason for a way to do that they used this nine because alyse m. is the same name of the number of other organizations as well so again when you google the nine you actually come up with all these legitimate companies then this scamming of australian wine brown steps up

a notch after john polson hooks him into the scam and now the gang member takes over he's job to keep mind spending money wholesome was just the start of the the scam is that it contacted me john paul's disappeared probably twelve to eighteen months after i first started talking and then again. you know according he came on the scene. there is now a new broker in the picture going by the alias of daniel johnson but he too is an american criminal living in manila the u.s. . going. for nothing what. johnson calls constantly to pry more money from one brown. shop interest. and one i

might be able to get their talks a little share. so tell me about this man. scrub a few blocks whistle for more or he still probably a member of it also into us is there are certain arrogance about him you know does he think he's a big shot in the philippines. only a certain urgency he thinks who rules the philippines it's like. well he's american he lives here with his wife and has children to her he's been in the philippines for years and he's probably one of the mind characters who. probably one of the logic parts in this for. the crime syndicates victims from around the world who are instructed to make payments to bank accounts in hong kong. the money is sent to the philippines and within a very short period of time on the money is usually taken out in cash here in the philippines by. like

a bank account holders who have control of the accounts on behalf of the fraud gangs for the syndicates and the money then laundered the cash. by now wine brown believes his portfolio is valued at five million dollars and he wants to cash it in but there's a catch the scam is in manila tell him before he can sell his shares he needs to pay us tax the tax money was granted i had hundred thousand u.s. dollars but i said i'd apply before you get that get this cash back from what will follow that once why i started to ask for money that i have to constantly come up with new why explaining why they're not i would buy the money it's just an ongoing . clever scheme to continue to g.p.m. by. the charade continues why news passed on to yet another manila based american

criminal again pretending to be on wall street he's alias jeffrey cohen. jeffrey guy when all is close like every happen there is a college decay out oh i can't get all my funds jeffrey said you don't apply the sponsor money for example that will give you. the funds we can release your funds to you. and. if we do have a shelter mention place for your change but you can't get all the you know the amount that you need the product is forty seven thousand dollars carried up on finding. your body will then be released. the scammers are trying to squeeze a final payment from wayne jethro's area it was very hard to deal with is very full on. it all aside if you know how to do this tell whale and the fossil to sit there while they would get on. with wine browns lost now tell you the one million dollars

informant x. moves against the gang. will sort of go ripple for this much sword for the i'll just restart can do something about it and i think the system our way of doing something about it. so inform schools private investigator can gamble he's willing to hand over the suitcase of evidence and forensic detail of the fraud against wind brown. the investigator is wearing gabble who spent years busting organized crime gangs in this region and has made many enemies. what are the steps necessary to get rid of a person like me that's going to cause a lot of trouble to the city get an operation so heavy now can. one group actually came to me and. they're rebuffed came to get rid of him if i have to kill and kill him you've done some pretty bad things haven't you already done

a lot of bad things we regards to came. when i saw what he was doing i just knew i couldn't get rid of him for the simple fact that he's hoping out a lot of people in order to get very low spec in order what do you make of the fact that informant x. the man who's helping you now was once played ninety thousand pesos to get rid of you it was certainly a strange feeling talking to the person who had been instructed to to get rid of me and it sort of reiterated my belief that there's a lot more good people in this world than there is bad. so you contacted wind to tell him he'd been scammed what was his reaction well he was pretty shocked. a little bit baffled at. what was going on but. he was also relates he had suspicions that something wasn't right he just didn't know what was going on he didn't know who to talk to. whine brown his' private investigator

can gamble to track the scammers and recover the money he's lost. or invested one point four million u.s. dollars with these blocks of sickening actually addresses that much money into my future and then to follow it out there wasn't any cash the. it was real sitting. more than five thousand kilometers away in manila the criminals are unaware the victim knows he's been combed. the tables are about to be turned. i said first thing the first mushing point thing to do is not to let on to them that you know you being scammed because i'm going to have to use you to continue to communicate with them together evidence that will be vital for them because. one keeps getting calls from the conmen jeffrey cohen

more appeals for him to pay money to three he is one plays along with him on the job there was to keep them on the hook as every don't want to me for the last three years or destroy maternal tiles keep them in a conversation i tell em i'm always going to give them the cash to follow as these deals. oh. oh gosh we know you know. it's so hard talking to people that you know this ripped you off and you got to talk almost just to keep them on the hook it's just so hard knowing that they're on the other soward of the world wallace. said that laughing at. the fraudster jeffrey cohen is becoming disputes and aggressive to extract a final payment from his victim wang is giving him the runaround. you're going to want. to say oh you're going to do. your fine within seventy two hours.

over the wall it will be a scope with a small amounts bigger most. we have no mercy have any syndicates do you think would be one of the one time. i'd say this about sixty groups in the police. have a need to vigils. hundreds or. i would say that they would be tens of millions of dollars involved in these frauds we have found cole said as the rising money three securities fraud have been directly linked to terrorist organizations in indonesia. after almost two years of investigation can gamble leaves ready to take his one thousand page brief to the makati police chief so you know since you've done the detective work for them haven't you you both the brick people the case to them yes we've done more than

just call it compliant we've done investigation we've gathered evidence would probably fall the suspects they are not skilled in financial crimes particularly cross border crossings where where i bring where i bring expectations in the area or across border forward and how to work with bridge oh yes. i need to see the police who need time to assign their own investigators and conduct their own surveillance but the case against a syndicate of foreign criminals is compelling. and we have identified a number of persons of interest actual suspects involved in dealing with mr brown there's three nine guys that actually dealt with him on the telephone. the mccarty police chief is convinced it's the seen this case and i think it's time for us. he says it will be nice trick of them in the bins to take on the talents. it will help. those aggrieved party to recover the money.

not knowing the noose is tightening around them the crime group is still trying to draw more cash from wine brown he's paid them nothing for fifteen months but they persist in the manila police finalize their investigation. paranoid actually stop trying to rush action as we speak right now so or make a great sacrifice. on the wide but surely nobody published article on. you don't expect your hard earned cash to be taken away from you or to sell my house. and i've also got a bank lot of it up my back which i've given a table. i need that money back so i can have the last all. in manila he's hard earned cash is being spent by fools to friends daniel johnson and jeffrey cohen. jeffrey often posts on facebook where he's doing he's a prolific poster he's even got his own food blog. because you.

expect. it to be rolled up aeration is about to come to a crashing in. investigating can you get this final surveillance from police. in this high security gated community he searches for the home of the criminal who goes by the name is daniel johnson it is what you write. because you're struck. before dawn a team of officers gather including specialists cyber crime police. it's the final briefing before

a newly morning raid. we would hard together enough intelligence to track down where the money what assets being purchased and and work out a strategy on how to recover the money. going to what came up. the moment because a right there at the house of daniel johnson it's the man who allegedly scammed most of the money from way around. read over on. the way. home. this is the man who calls himself daniel johnson his real name is richard recchi obi jr and he's a fifty six year old new yorker. richard you left

a message this morning last night for a white grandmother of money on his voice miles under the name of daniel johnson. you call that two of the main also live here one of them barry rosen is the brother of the alleged fraud stood known as jeffrey cohen what's been going on in this house is about to be exposed in the state. of the state you guys work or you. want. abstain is the police find evidence of want to be used to be a sophisticated food operation scripts to entice the best use laptops and a list of dozens of names of investors most of whom i don't know they may be the victims of a scam. but there is one name can gamble needs to find hard. this is day to day executive office and this is day to day tax which is. the company

that wind around investing the money here the a miles of wind brand name now is a right here on the computer. so there's the evidence right there there's this one of these e-mails was just sent last not richard not issue not a should be in touch with mr brown this morning a small loss not. on the mouth there ok you know you know everything i go off way up so yeah yeah i just kind of stand like yeah ok we could do it you know that was ok this one dish i laid out for my wife which will reach you directly on the morning is getting worse by the minute so it's a strike to have registered who will not i call it but all you know there is no or emulation. of to so many months of investigation today is a very special weekend and one. of a lot of the and i think you all are going to put him in prison. give me cash back . or at least let people know that up people have

a lot of. it's been now richard appears calm and cooperative so i want to thank you guys think so portugal i don't respect the white house is that richard recchi opie and he's two housemates formally arrested accused of cyber crime. as you just know would just like to think oh mike. the alleged chief fraudster is now in custody if you can gamble much work lies ahead. every pressure point that we can hit we will apply pressure they in order to get out clause money back that my involved falling criminal cases of my involved falling civil cases whatever topics .

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the u.n. envoy to yemen has landed in the capital sana to meet with the hope the rebel leadership martin griffiths is flowing there after last week's talks in geneva failed before they even began if it's held three days of meetings with a yemeni government delegation but the hoodies didn't show up the rebels have accused the saudi led coalition of blocking them from traveling to the peace talks griffith's arrives now as a new wave of airstrikes have been launched targeting a key highway in a data province under simmons with more from. anyone trying to bring peace to yemen may not need reminding of what's at stake nevertheless those without a voice of influence are crying out loud now for him you know how just one hundred sixty kilometers from her data they try to keep babies alive. malnutrition could potentially soon be the biggest killer in this conflict nearby families are in.