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00:00 We received a new report on the 24-hour Facebook page.
00:05 It's about those who were locked up for a huge salary abroad,
00:08 but the work is just to be a scammer,
00:11 which has a partner to torture.
00:13 Ivan Mayrina and Mark Salazar were on the subject.
00:16 The story of the wives of three secret slaves in Myanmar,
00:24 who slept in the GMA Integrated News, is almost the same.
00:27 A Joanna Marie is recruiting call center agents in Thailand
00:32 who have up to 50,000 pesos of monthly salary plus commission.
00:37 We just chatted on Facebook,
00:41 we said we will spend the money there,
00:44 we will take care of it, so that they will only get a percentage.
00:47 But their wives are traveling from Huanga, across Malaysia,
00:52 then Thailand, before they go back to Myanmar.
00:56 The promise was in Thailand.
00:58 My husband was just wondering why they locked him up in a boat,
01:03 they looked him in the eye and said he was a spy.
01:06 He was shocked that a band was going to follow them.
01:09 They are not legitimate call center agents in Myanmar.
01:14 They are scammers.
01:15 Once they have invested all the money, they will not return it.
01:19 They will just give it to the company.
01:21 The wives are even more upset that they cannot pay the amount they should have.
01:28 They are being treated like a current.
01:30 They will be in jail for 40 days.
01:33 There are many things that can be done in that penalty room.
01:37 In the cell phones, one of the victims sent a picture.
01:41 This is what his wife brought to the so-called black room.
01:46 They were being possessed. Before they were fed two pandesal and one mineral water,
01:54 they were being energized and then they will be put in a coffin.
01:58 The most serious is that both were sentenced to be in the penalty room and black room.
02:03 My husband was really in a bad situation.
02:05 He was in a black room for two weeks and he was possessed.
02:09 He was in a penalty room for one week and he was in there for 40 days.
02:14 Like the other survivors, they are being forced to leave the place.
02:20 If you are able to pay, like they are able to pay, they will be released from the compound.
02:25 It's up to you who will follow you, if it's Myanmar police or Thailand police.
02:29 They approached the Interagency Council Against Trafficking but they were not able to get any help for the relief.
02:36 They have been there for a long time.
02:38 Their debt is increasing because they are paying for their house, food and everything.
02:45 They are not being scammed.
02:47 They are being forced to leave. They are avoiding the blood money, if you will call it.
02:53 The families of the victims were forced to leave and they were asked to email them the entire details of what happened
02:59 so that the investigation can begin.
03:02 Labor trafficking is one of the things that the Interagency Council Against Trafficking is fighting.
03:07 According to the council, among the red flags, you are being considered a tourist for the work abroad.
03:14 It's a big red flag that if you work abroad, you will not get any clearance from the DMW.
03:22 I hope you will avoid that.
03:24 You are usually paid a high salary and you have a good job.
03:27 Meanwhile, many are struggling with poverty.
03:30 When passports arrive in other countries, they get their passports, including passports of other workers.
03:39 That's another indication of human trafficking.
03:41 If there are abuses that are happening to them, for example, they don't have a salary or they want to leave,
03:48 that's another badge of human trafficking.
03:50 Many scams are happening on social media.
03:53 The council admitted that sometimes the coordination is not that fast on the well-known social media platforms
03:58 and some are hard to reach and no one can talk to.
04:01 For GMA Integrated News, Ivan Mejrina.
04:04 Mark Salazar, Nakatutok 24 Horas.
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