DMW deploys team to Cambodia to help repatriate 27 Filipinos forced to work as online scammers

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00:00 The Department of Migrant Workers, or DMW, deployed a team to Cambodia to assist in repatriation

00:06 efforts of 27 Filipinos who were forced to work as scammers. Under Secretary Hans Leo

00:11 Kakdak, officer in charge of the DMW, said the victims were able to enter Cambodia through a

00:17 tourist visa January of this year. They were told that they would work as tech support representatives

00:23 but was actually forced into working for an online scamming facility near the Thai border.

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