They are valued for their English proficiency and computer skills, he said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Chinese criminals running cryptocurrency scams in South-east Asia are targeting Filipinos to work for them because of their English language and computer skills, a Philippine foreign ministry official said on Monday.
The men were in Dubai when they were recruited online to work as “customer support representatives” in Thailand, the ministry said. Myanmar’s rugged borderlands are home to a patchwork of ethnic rebel groups and military-aligned militia that have fought each other for decades over territory, lucrative timber and jade resources, and the drug trade.
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