By Mae Bentia
Her schemes sound like legitimate business. In one case she used her restaurant as bait for investment money, and in another she trafficked artists from the Philippines to come to Canada for shows that never took place. Her ploy was to ask for funds upfront but once she got it the promise vanished into thin air.
With her restaurant she conned families to join her in business partnerships, squeezing them to the max, then closed it running off with the money.
With artists from the Philippines Naomi and Roxlee Ong enticed them with sponsorships to come and perform shows in Canada for hefty fees. No shows ever materialized. Word was they ended up staying with the Ongs in their rented house. One artist said he had to spend his own funds to buy needed groceries because there was hardly any food in the house.
The Ongs apparently used the artists as cover through immigration to bring their mom and a son and other would be prospects to Canada. The mom was presented as a band manager, and the son as a guitarist. Amazingly with the other artists, they all got through the immigration process.
NAOMI ONG, has five children sired by three different men, is presently married to Roxlee Ong, who is her dutiful partner (co defendant) and conspirator in her alleged swindling activities. A victim who has become familiar with the couple commented that it is Naomi who runs the scams, that her hubby is but a yes-man under the full control of his wife. Balita has obtained a list of Naomi Ong’s victims, people she borrowed and owed money from and never paid back, untill she filed for bankruptcy in London, Ontario.
Through January to March of 2019, Naomi continued to pan for investors or potential victims in her restaurant scheme. She had her cook, server in the restaurant that she used as a front to get people to invest, to work that some complained of not getting paid at all.. The restaurant and their rented house masqueraded as their owned were used as a front to her victims. We have a list of timelines when she took their money.
Based on available documents of her court cases her modus operandi starts with making friends with strangers or customers that come to her restaurant, and having picked an easy target, she then follows up with phone calls presenting herself as if she was already a long-time acquaintance.
The phone calls persist, probing for available money and on the weaknesses of her prey. Like the heartless pro that she is, soon as there is enough to scam notwithstanding in what economic situation the victim is, that is when she doubles her efforts and does not give up until she succeeds.
She is adept in using media props or personalities to get into her victim’s confidence. A skilled manipulator of information about press people that she claims as friends and associates its not hard for her to make her targets believe in her.
As of last count Naomi Ong is averaging at least a victim per month, more in some cases. Despite the cases in court and the currency of new cases reaching us at Balita, it is apparent that Naomi Ong is still actively waging her activities. That has prompted one victim to issue the warning to PLEASE BEWARE!
Be aware that she will invest her time and money to soften you up and get your trust, but know that as soon as you hand her some money, she suddenly goes to tough mode until she gets all of it. Then to follow up with your investment is a risky proposition- the nice lady completely becomes aggressive and threatening to make you go away, or she totally vanishes to nowhere.
She threatened to sue her victims who caught up with her and dared to ask about their investment. Those who brought cases in court against her in London all won their cases, but by then she had fled to another city to ply her nefarious trade, defiantly ignoring those judgments against her. We have her different modus and tactics.
She acts like a rich and sweet woman and can fabricate stories, edited documents and fake bank accounts and used the restaurant’s name in applications after applications to immigration to look legitimate. Naomi Ong has allegedly swindled Money Mart, landlords for the restaurant and a number of their house landlords, CRA and Ministry of Labor.
She used friends credit cards, convinced friends as guarantor. She used organizations for front specifically being members of RAM Guardian Alakdan Canada to show that they are well connected. So, her sweet tongue is her only asset
This lady know she can outsmart everyone so BEWARE. Her victims work hard and now ended up paying while she enjoyed their hard-earned monies that she got from sweet talk, dishonesty and manipulation. This can happen again and again if no one will stop her.
Covid 19 has cause delay of court proceedings but the people she fooled will not stop to get justice. Victims should not play victims anymore, With Balita and the active advocates, they should stand up and expose them so we we can save the others.****
Publishing is a very hard job. you get valid complaints from people scammed in the community. We refer them to the police, Elite Crusaders then are helping them file the lawsuit and then I publish to warn the others so there will be no more. But for the culprits, they do everything to harass us. Creating a dummy account to scare us. This one is from Naomi Ong and the other two people she referred to are Lily Hammer (liwayway Miranda) and another person who would defend her to the moon and back blinded by money. That is okay, people have the right to defend themselves. But when you threaten and harass the reporter, that is a no no.
Message from Naomi Ong to Tess Cusipag
wala na akong respeto sa yong tangina ka tantanan mo akong matanda ka you are harassing me you wanna meet the real Wojtek you better be prepared we are all coming after you TANGNA MO but di mo subukang magbigti
investigators? don’t use your game on me. I’m done with your crap that just tells you that all your information are bullshit wrong person to bluff. Tanda. TANGNA KANG LECHON KA, like I said bakit di mo subukang magpasagasa. BOBO.*****
Victims of Lily Hammer are looking for her to serve legal documents and investigators failed to find her. The 5 addresses known to the court were also visited but no Lily Hammer in sight. Balita tried to help and asked Hammer directly for her address and this is her reply
Tess Cusipag: what is your address? my question again? where do you live so we can serve documents.
Lily Hammer: find it out smarty
Lily Hammer: I found you and Mary Ellinelle
Lily Hammer: Why you can’t find me?
You can’t find me? Poor grandma
This is from Naomi Ong’s cousin -Christy Ohvanainen Herouart
I know her because she is my cousin. I don’t like the way she scams people. She did this a long time ago when she was in Saudi Arabia. She also did this to some people in Finland and was deported. I thought she has changed but apparently not!
I’m so sorry for all of you who were victimized by my cousin Naomi Ong. I hope you all receive justice for what happened to you. This woman is evil and I hope she has to make restitution to you all! ·
Fake news! Mae Bentia I know could not even make one sentence right . Someone is writing for her . Balita is a tabloid of fake news . Sad this is happening in Filipino community.