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Tilila Siola'a Walker Sumchai

ReportedSep 19, 2023
LocationRichmond, CA
Amount$13,000,000

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Industry
"Tongi Tupe" investment program
How investors were recruited
Targeted the Tongan community in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand
Pitch & red flags
Promised principal plus "thousands of dollars in returns within weeks or months"; $30,000 investment would yield a Lodi home worth about $480,000; claimed "a secret algorithm"

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Source

U.S. Department of Justice official

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