Illegal recruiters pretend to be legitimate by duplicating licensed agencies' Facebook pages, the Department of Migrant Workers says
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In collaboration with the Philippine offices of Meta and TikTok, the DMW took down and deactivated 71,653 fake job postings and accounts in 2024, which included 50,220 dubious posts on Facebook, and 21,433 on TikTok. Cacdac said that these illegal recruiters pretend to be legitimate recruitment agencies by duplicating official Facebook pages of DMW-licensed agencies.
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