YouTube is an interesting phenomena. Created in mid-February 2005, it is a video sharing website where anyone can upload, view and share video clips. By August 2006, according to Wikipedia citing a Wall Street Journal article, YouTube was already hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 45 terabytes of storage space), and had about 500,000 user accounts. Wikipedia adds that as of April 9, 2008, a YouTube search returns about 83.4 million videos and 3.75 million user channels.

Just recently, a 2-minute video was uploaded at YouTube by a user registered as Malefecent1, who joined the video-sharing community on April 27, 2008. It showed how a suspected male fixer exacted PhP5,195.00 from his victim. The suspect can be seen somewhere in the video wearing a blue shirt with white stripes. According to Malefecent1: “He is an ex-LTO Iloilo employee who scams people through fixing. He was already fired from the LTO for this yet he continues to perpetrate his craft through the help of his mistress… who sits at the helm of the supplies office at the LTO.”

Watch the video, listen to the recordings and judge for yourself.

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