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Filipinos were “prized” targets for scam networks operating in Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia, said Eduardo de Vega, acting undersecretary for migrant workers’ affairs at the DFA.
The latest victim group arrived in Manila on Monday. Four men, all in their 30s, had been trafficked into Myanmar for “less than two months”, during which they were held in compounds, De Vega told AFP. Myanmar’s rugged borderlands are home to a patchwork of ethnic rebel groups and military-aligned militia that have fought each other for decades over territory, lucrative timber and jade resources, and the drug trade.
There were another 50 Filipinos working for cryptocurrency scams in Cambodia and 50 in Laos, De Vega estimated.“We are slowly repatriating them, but some are not asking to be repatriated,” De Vega said.The International Organization for Migration said most people trafficked into these illegal online operations came from around Asia — including Vietnam, India, and Bangladesh — but some were from as far away as Brazil and Kenya.
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