The Philippines (under Duterte) said to Chinese criminals: Feel free to base your operations here and rip off your fellow Chinese, but don't rip off us Filipinos.
Then these POGO centres started scamming locals and Chinese alike, and staffed themselves with scam victims, using blackmail and torture to force them to work there and commit fraud.
The Philippines (under Duterte) said to Chinese criminals: Feel free to base your operations here and rip off your fellow Chinese, but don't rip off us Filipinos.
Then these POGO centres started scamming locals and Chinese alike, and staffed themselves with scam victims, using blackmail and torture to force them to work there and commit fraud.
Then one victim escaped:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68562643
And then the whole world unraveled for local town mayor and Chinese spy, Alice Guo (that's not even her real name)
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/04/asia/philippines-alice-gu...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mnyrm8739o