Police said they rescued 383 Filipinos, 202 Chinese and 73 other foreign nationals.
Police in the Philippines raided a place and rescued many ‘good-looking’ people who were tricked by a scam themselves into scamming others under the guise of a fraudulent operation.The victims’ passports were also taken away from them and they were forced to operate many scams. One of them being a ‘love scam.
The scam center, located approximately 100 kilometers north of Manila, was posing to be an online gambling firm but turned out to be actually a hub for orchestrating fraudulent schemes.‘Love scams,’ which are also called ‘pig butchering,’ scams involve perpetrators adopting fake identities so that they can begin a romantic relationship with their victims.
People stuck in the center had to send nice messages to their victims, asking about their day and what they ate, said Winston Casio, spokesman for the Presidential Commission Against Organized Crime. The term ‘pig butchering’ originates from the practice of fattening a pig before slaughter. Similarly, the perpetrators entice the victims to invest in money,These scams hurt a lot of people all over the world, both financially and emotionally, causing big money problems. After taking a lot of money, the scammers vanish, leaving victims with big losses.
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