House Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar is eying a congressional inquiry into the proliferation of scammers offering dubious and non-existent jobs abroad. ManilaBulletin
House Deputy Speaker and Las Pinas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar is seeking a congressional inquiry on the activities of a cryptocurrency syndicate that fool Filipinos into thinking that they would get high-paying jobs abroad.Noting that aspiring overseas Filipino workers are being duped left and right, House Deputy Speaker and Las Piñas City lone district Rep.
“There have been countless reports of Filipinos being victimized by local placement agencies for non-existent jobs abroad and syndicates offering high-paying jobs but the jobseeker ends up in a dubious cryptocurrency group,” said Villar. Information reaching Villar’s office revealed that some of the recruited workers who have since returned to the country were not even given their promised salaries during their stay abroad.
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