…The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has shut down more than 70,000 illegal online postings for jobs overseas on Facebook and TikTok, saving potentially thousands of Filipinos from paying hard-earned money for nonexistent jobs, or worse, slave-like working conditions abroad.

The 71,653 fake job postings and accounts taken down included 50,220 “suspicious” posts on Facebook and 21,433 on TikTok, the DMW said on Friday…

He explained that unscrupulous entities were masquerading as legitimate recruitment agencies by duplicating the official Facebook pages of DMW-licensed agencies to convince job applicants of their legitimacy.

“We had a meeting with these agencies, and Facebook agreed to take down all these copycat sites,” Cacdac said…

…the DMW closed down Legal Connect Travel Consultancy…

In October 2023, the DMW disclosed that more than 200 OFWs were allegedly victimized by the Milan, Italy-based Golden Power SRLS and Alpha Assistenza…

…a total of 269 Filipinos in the Philippines filed formal complaints against the agencies…

Two months earlier, authorities arrested seven suspects…in an operation at Jewel Travel Documentation Service…

An investigation showed that the recruitment agency amassed around P43 million from the victims who were allegedly promised jobs in Canada, Poland, New Zealand and Australia…