
Online scammers
IT’S certainly time to step up the pressure on illegal online job scammers, victimizing thousands of Filipino overseas jobseekers.
What we have here is a major problem that threatens to destroy the future of many young Flipinos, men and women.
Let’s save these jobseekers from paying hard-earned money for non-existent jobs or worse, slave-like working conditions overseas.
And we commend concerned state authorities, through the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), for doing like that.
The DMW, headed by Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac, has shut down 70,000 illegal online job postings for overseas employment in 2024.
The scammers use the wonders of modern technology – Facebook and Tiktok – in victimizing Filipino overseas jobseekers.
DMW said the 71,653 fake job postings and accounts taken down included 50,220 posts on Facebook and 21,443 on Tiktok.
“As we find them, we take them down. Every illegal recruitment post we see online, we immediately report and coordinate with Facebook and Tiktok for the deactivation of those accounts,” said Cacdac.
Our jobseekers have all the right in the world to seek employment abroad.
But they have to be more cautious against dubious job offers on social media and always verify with DMW the legitimacy of recruitment agencies.