The government’s Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking confirmed a senator’s claim that legitimate Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators provide a “legal cover” to scam hubs. | MAgerINQ
According to him, workers are hired through online job postings—mostly on Facebook Telegram and Whatsapp. They are recruited as call center agents with a promise of high salary and good working conditions, he also said.Far from the traditional victims profiles, he said, trafficking victims are typically young , tech savvy, multilingual, and educated.
“The modus operandi involves confiscation of the passports and the movements outside are restricted so these scam hubs typically they are in complexes that are walled with barbed wires that are subject to security,” the IACAT official also said. Ty said the victims were also mostly males but they were ordered by their handlers “to pretend to be attractive women in a dating site and entice their clients to invest in fake cryptocurrency.”
Violators or workers wanting to leave would be locked in a “dark room” for days and would be given only one meal a day as earlier revealed by Hontiveros. After Ty’s presentation, Hontiveros remarked, “You did confirm that legitimate Pogo license holders provide a legal cover or layer for these scam hubs and you have data supporting this right?”But Ty said the IACAT does not have “collated data” of Pogos “suspected of engaging in human trafficking.”Ty nevertheless identified Paranaque and Clark in Pampanga as
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