'There are syndicates behind these activities. The syndicates haul these beggars in vans, deploy them in the streets, and collect them at night,' the National Anti-Poverty Commission warned.
A netizen, who ran into the boy, said the beggar whipped out a QR code when told they had no coins."We laughed at first, so we checked if the QR code works, and it was real, named after a certain Beverly," the netizen said in his Facebook post.
"There are syndicates behind these activities. The syndicates haul these beggars in vans, deploy them in the streets, and collect them at night," NAPC vice chairperson Reynaldo Tamayo told local television. The Philippine Statistics Authority said 18.1 percent of the Philippines' nearly 110 million population live below the poverty line.
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