Dennis Jose Borbon is an alleged fraudster, a congressional staff, and an alleged blogger who reportedly scammed senators JV Ejercito, Bong Go, and Tito Sotto. As a result, he got arrested on August 1, 2019.
Borbon started scamming in 2016, attempting to scam JV Ejercito. Three years later, he attempted to scam Bong Go. He acted as Representative Arnulfo Fuentebella, going into a back-and-forth with Go. Go eventually found out he was not Fuentebella. That same year, he was arrested by the Philippine National Police (PNP). In 2021, two years after the arrest, he was the mastermind of a scam targeting Tito Sotto. He was charged with estafa.
Early scams
In 2016, JV Ejercito stated that Borbon scammed him in a tweet he uploaded three years later, on August 1, 2019, when he got arrested.[1] On August 1, 2019, Senator Bong Go announced in Camp Crame, along with Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde, Representative Arnulfo Fuentebella, and Presidential Anti-Corruption CommissionerGreco Belgica that two men attempted to extort money from Go acting as Rep. Fuentebella. Go announced that the two men were Borbon and his accomplice, Edgar Bularan, who extorted other politicians using the messaging app Viber.[2]
According to Go, when the men messaged him, he got suspicious and went on to check if he was the "real Fuentebella". So Go messaged Fuentebella, with the latter stating that the message was fake. He further checked with his team, who further confirmed Fuentebella's response. He then messaged the perpetrators to "withdraw his money and use it to buy his coffin." Go then found out that they were tapped by opposition to smear him in the 2019 Philippine general election. In conclusion, Go told the public to not fall for these types of scams.[2]
Arrest
Really a scammer! I could attest to that! Glad that the hands of the law finally caught up with him.
The day before the arrest, a man was targeted in an entrapment operation by the PNP who was reportedly related to Borbon. Borbon was arrested on August 1 by the PNP. He was arrested along with another scammer.[3] They were arrested when they were trying to withdraw the remaining money from the scams in an ATM.[4] In his arrest, he said that he was financed by multiple lawmakers, including Bam Aquino, Antonio Trillanes, and Gary Alejano.[5] In his arrest, Borbon stated that he was a "popular blogger" and had 300,000 followers.[5]
In October 2021, the National Bureau of Investigation arrested a criminal for posing as a representative of a bishop from Daet to harvest donations from senators, gaining P300,000 ($5,170) from Senator Tito Sotto. The office of Sotton then sought assistance from the National Bureau of Investigation. The office eventually found out that there was no bishop who wanted to seek assistance from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cáceres. "Vinerify namin yung bishop sa Archdiocese ng Bicol, walang ganoong klaseng bishop." (transl.We verified the identity of the bishop with the Archdiocese of Bicol, and we found out that there was no bishop.) Because of this, Borbon was charged with a case of estafa.[a][8]
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