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OFFICERS of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport rescued two Filipinas who were illegally recruited to work as call center agents in Laos.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The BI said the women, aged 25 and 31, were traveling for vacation to Bangkok, Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, upon presenting their documents, BI officers noted inconsistencies in the statements of the two women.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Both later admitted that they were not really officemates, but were actually recruited to work in Laos, where they would take up customer service representative (CSR) positions and promised a monthly salary of P50,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The duo added that they paid P3,000 to a fixer they met on social media to produce documents to make it appear that they were officemates.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BI Commissioner Joel Anthony Viado warned the public about scam hubs in Asian countries, targeting Filipinos to work as CSRs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe strongly advise Filipinos to be cautious when accepting job offers abroad, especially those that seem too good to be true,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Viado said many of the call center jobs turn out to be fronts for large-scale scam operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The rescued women were turned over to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking for further investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OFFICERS of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport rescued two Filipinas who were illegally recruited to work as call center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11905,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11903\/revisions\/11905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>The two, who pretended to be <\/strong>officemates on vacation, were stopped by BI officers at the NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City.<\/strong><\/p>\n