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00:00Authorities raided a house in Makati City where an illegal POGO is operating.
00:06No POGO workers have been detected in the area and there are indications that the raid was sound.
00:12Let's hear from Salima Refran.
00:16The Makati LGU's mission order is tight to inspect.
00:20Authorities entered a house in Makati Business District.
00:25There is information that the operation is still going on.
00:29The closed IGL or Internet Gaming Licensee should be in the house.
00:34But the authorities have not been there.
00:37In the office of an IGL on the 52nd floor, the computers and equipment are already wrapped.
00:45But in other areas, office set-ups that are usually seen in POGO Scam Hubs collapsed.
00:51This is okay.
00:53It's still cold.
00:54The breaker is already down.
00:56But the rooms are still cold.
00:58While in a Takore, it's still hot.
01:02It's still hot.
01:03It's still hot.
01:04This is what the authorities found on the 51st floor of this house.
01:09The equipment is messy.
01:11But the computers are still here.
01:15And in this part of their workstation, there are a lot of cellphones.
01:21It seems like the employees left here quickly because it's still cold.
01:29SIM cards, OTP generators, hard drives, and scripts are also seen that are used in scams.
01:36We saw a lot of different types of scripts.
01:39This is a script of an investment scam.
01:42There is also a script of an Ethereum investment.
01:46So it proves that there is a crypto scam here.
01:49Usually, when there are OTPs, it involves scamming of online wallets or bank accounts.
02:00But for the Department of Justice Office of Cybercrime, the scripts are in English.
02:07Usually, when the notebooks are in English, the employees are Filipino.
02:12In the security logbook, there was an entry at 4 p.m.
02:17Two hours before the raid.
02:20Our intel here operates as a POGO operation.
02:26This is a scamming center.
02:30We are looking at 600 or more foreigners.
02:37The story of the people downstairs is that at 4 p.m. or 5 p.m.
02:43these people are still running downstairs.
02:46That's 21 companies with different names.
02:52And with different names of owners.
02:56They know that they are doing something illegal because they are running.
02:59If they are legal, they will wait for us.
03:01Because our initial visit here is an inspection based on a BPLO permission order.
03:10The building management also denied that POGO has an operation in the house.
03:14I know that there is none. I can vouch for it.
03:17Because our contracts are in place. All documents are in order.
03:23Another Chinese who introduced an employee of Lucky South 99 in Porak and Sun Valley in Clark, Pampanga
03:30entered the house and was arrested by the authorities.
03:34Was it POGO?
03:36POGO?
03:37POGO, POGO, POGO.
03:39He surrendered and he wants to be deported to China.
03:42One of the people under investigation was a Chinese national who surrendered.
03:46His history, his work history, where he worked,
03:50because we might be able to get information from the existing POGO.
03:54The leak in the operation will be investigated.
03:57We're looking at the possibility that they were alarmed because we saw a memo
04:02from somebody who has an inspection.
04:07We don't expect the authenticity of that document.
04:11We will re-evaluate also our tactics
04:15to know where we are lacking or what areas we can improve.
04:21Business Permits and Licensing Office or BPLO immediately closed a number of offices
04:27due to the absence or lack of permits.
04:30Some have permits but they lack individual working permits and health certificates.
04:39Sanima Refrain, reporting for GMA Integrated News.
04:51END