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How to detect fake peso bills

A few days ago, we talked about an emerging scam tactic wherein a store cashier replaces a buyer’s cash with fake money. When faced with that situation with no evidence to prove that the money was in fact replaced, the buyer has no other choice but to to give the cashier a new one.

One way to prevent this from happening is to confirm before paying that the cash you are using is indeed not fake. For you to do this, we’ve provided below a good guide in determining if your currency is fake or not. Information were provided by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

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Beware of Apple iPhone scammers!

Those turned off by the expensive prices of the Apple iPhone might be tempted to get one from black markets or online stores selling jailbroken versions of this newly-released (and may we add, hyped) phone.

But beware, because scammers who prey on people looking for cheap iPhones also abound.

Art Vasquez in a comment on the article Where to buy cheap Apple iPhones in the Philippines narrated how he got scammed by a scammer seller in a popular Filipino auction site.

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Investment Product: DBP’s Tier 2 notes

The Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) recently issued P6.5 billion worth of unsecured and subordinated tier 2 notes with a 7.75% coupon rate.

The notes mature in 10 years but have a step-up rate on its fifth year. This means DBP can redeem the notes on the fifth year or else it will have to increase the coupon rate.

Proceeds of the debt issuance will provide working capital to the bank and also increase its capital adequacy ratios.

What is a tier 2 note?

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Make money with Paypal

If you’ve been following our posts about Paypal, you’ll see that there really is a way to make money using Paypal.

In May 2008, we wrote about the $30 and $85 referral bonuses we got from Paypal. These are payments for PayPal’s Merchant Referral Bonus Program, wherein you can be entitled to receive a portion of Paypal transaction amounts of the people you referred to PayPal.

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Invalid clicks in Bidvertiser

For several months now, Bidvertiser is becoming a good complement to Google Adsense as a money-making program. During our first month, we earned $33.15 from Bidvertiser and every month since then, we average $40-50 a month.

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