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Casino, not bakery: Philippine e-payment firms urged to improve merchant vetting
South China Morning Post
· collected 2026-09-17 · by Bloomberg
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Summary
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas discovered thousands of small payments, as low as 80 US cents, made to suspicious merchants late at night, many of which were online casinos posing as legitimate businesses like beauty salons and bakeries. Deputy Governor Mamerto Tangonan stressed the need for better merchant vetting by e-payment firms to protect consumers from fraud, illegal activities, and money laundering.
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Story summary
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas discovered thousands of small payments, as low as 80 US cents, being made late at night to seemingly ordinary merchants but actually to illegal businesses such as online casinos disguised as beauty salons and bakeries. Deputy Governor Mamerto Tangonan emphasized the need to protect consumers from fraud and money laundering by improving merchant vetting processes in digital payment platforms. The central bank’s findings highlight the urgent requirement for stricter regulations to prevent these fraudulent activities, ensuring that the expansion of digital payments does not compromise consumer safety.
Written for “Philippine E Payment Scams” on 2026-09-17,
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Leaning score -0.35 for article 15174 (high confidence, 1 verified quote) · logged 2026-09-17
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📰 Philippine E Payment Scams
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Casino, not bakery: Philippine e-payment firms urged to improve merchant vetting
The central bank found thousands of payments of as little as 80 US cents being made to generally unremarkable merchants past midnight
The requirement came after Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas found thousands of illegal businesses on the payment platforms, including many online casinos masquerading as more ordinary companies like beauty salons and bakeries.
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Pilipinas → urge → salons
“We want to protect consumers from online fraud, illegal activities and also from money launderers,” Deputy Governor Mamerto Tangonan said in an interview.
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Tangonan → want → interview
“You cannot expand digitalisation if people’s money is being stolen” or they are being scammed.
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they → expand → digitalisation
