Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) with expiring visas are being targeted by human trafficking syndicates who are illegally recruiting them as crypto-scammers in Myanmar, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said Wednesday.
Overseas Filipino workers with expiring visas are being targeted by human trafficking syndicates who are illegally recruiting them as crypto-scammers in Myanmar, the Bureau of Immigration said Wednesday.
“We have observed that these human traffickers are preying on OFWs with expiring visas, particularly in the middle east, and are enticing them to work as call center agents in Asian countries,” he said in a press statement. According to Tansingco, an investigation showed the victims were both former OFWs in the United Arab Emirates and were recruited by scammers in the Middle Eastern country.
The victims said a foreign escort fetched them using a 4x4 vehicle upon their arrival. They also traveled for 16 hours and stopped on a riverside to ride a boat, and were escorted by uniformed men until they arrived at the company where they were set to work.
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