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Camacho Trading

SEC-EIPD Advisory • Securities and Exchange Commission Departments • Enforcement and Investor Protection Department (EIPD) • Mar 9, 2023

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March 9, 2023 ENFORCEMENT AND INVESTOR PROTECTION DEPARTMENT SEC ADVISORY Based on reports and information gathered by the Commission, individuals or group of persons claiming to represent CAMACHO TRADING , are enticing the public through social media to invest in said entity. CAMACHO TRADING claims that it is involved in newspaper packaging supplies trading where said company would import Korean newspapers to be used to wrap vegetables, fruits, dried fish, flowers and many more. As posted online, there is no minimum amount that may be invested with CAMACHO TRADING , any amount would do and in return, they are promising a 10% per month return on your investment, as shown in the sample computation below: In this regard, the public is made aware that an "investment contract," which is a kind of security, exists when there is an investment or placement of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others, which is prominent in the scheme of CAMACHO TRADING . As such, the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) requires that said offer and/or sale of securities must be duly registered with the Commission and that the concerned entity and/or its agents should have the appropriate registration and/or license to sell such securities to the public. Based on the Commission's database, CAMACHO TRADING is NOT REGISTERED as a corporation or partnership and OPERATES WITHOUT THE NECESSARY LICENSE AND/OR AUTHORITY to solicit, accept or take investments/placements from the public nor to issue investment contracts and other forms of securities defined under Section 3 of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) . In view thereof, the public is hereby advised NOT TO INVEST or to STOP INVESTING in the investment scheme being offered by CAMACHO TRADING , and its representatives . Those who act as salesmen, brokers, dealers or agents, representatives, promoters, recruiters, uplines, influencers, endorsers, abetters and enablers of CAMACHO TRADING , in soliciting or convincing people to invest in the investment scheme being offered by the said entity including soliciting investments or recruiting investors through the internet may be held criminally liable under Section 28 of the SRC and penalized with a maximum fine of Five Million Pesos (Php5,000,000.00) or imprisonment of Twenty One (21) years or both pursuant to Section 73 of the SRC (SEC vs. Oudine Santos, G.R. No. 195542, 19 March 2014) . Should you have any information regarding the operation of CAMACHO TRADING , and its representatives, please send your report through email at [emailprotected] . For the information and guidance of the public. Makati City, March 9, 2023.

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