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Manila, Philippines—The Philippines said Wednesday it had deported 165 Chinese citizens it accused of working in an online scam center based in the north of the country.
The deportees were among hundreds of employees, Filipino and foreign, rounded up by an anti-crime government task force in a raid of an office compound in the northern municipality of Bamban on March 14. After the raid, the authorities said some of the workers were forced into it and “were controlled by having their passports confiscated so they were unable to leave.”
Across Southeast Asia, scam centers have mushroomed, with crime syndicates luring, kidnapping or coercing workers into predatory online activity.
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