The revelations on the activities of a human-trafficking syndicate victimizing jobseekers forced to work in cyberscam entities in Southeast Asia. Know more:
THE revelations on the activities of a human-trafficking syndicate victimizing jobseekers forced to work in cyberscam entities in Southeast Asia would hopefully speed up the dismantling of both the recruiters’ activities and the operations of the crypto scammers, mostly based in remote parts of Myanmar.
His recruiter’s agent at the airport had scolded him for lining up at Immigration, pulled him out of there and met him elsewhere, giving him his passport with a fake BI stamp and a fake airport ID card purportedly saying he is an employee of a food concessionaire. That pass would allow him access—without passing through immigration—to the final boarding area for his flight to Thailand.
From this man’s testimony and those of two women who both experienced being trafficked to Myanmar via Thailand and were later rescued, Senate probers are now demanding answers from immigration and airport authorities. In Thursday’s radio interview, Secretary Ople confirmed accounts that the illegally trafficked Filipino workers were made to believe they will work as customer service representatives in Thailand or Malaysia, but were then brought overland to Myanmar. They were routinely punished—with physical beatings, exhaustion—if they failed to meet “quota,” meaning, they did not dupe enough clients online, mostly from western countries.
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