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Hundreds rescued from Philippines scam centre
The Straits Times
|March 16, 2024
MANILA Hundreds of people forced to work in an online scamcentre in the Philippines were rescued in a raid on March 14 that also saw eight suspects arrested, according to police.
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Acting on a tip-off from a Vietnamese man who claimed to have escaped from the sprawling compound in Bamban, north of Manila, police said they unmasked an operation where suspected victims of human trafficking were forced into conducting online scams.
"The rescued workers told us (the company) engages in love scams... cryptocurrency scams and other scam activities," said Mr Gilberto Cruz, executive director of the crime task force that led the pre-dawn raid.
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