Illegal Recruiters Targeting Iraq, Afghanistan-banned OFWs

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are warned of illegal recruiters operating in Dubai, Batangas, Bataan and Cabanatuan.

In a statement, recruitment consultant Emmanuel Geslani said these illegal recruiters are targeting OFWs who are eager to go back to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has already banned the deployment of new workers there.

Only OFWs who have valid contracts and with sufficient documents being processed by the Balik-Manggagawa section of POEA may be allowed to go back to those countries.

The OFWs are also warned that some recruiting syndicates are using the social networking site Facebook, with numerous inquiries about possible jobs flooding the OFWs through their accounts.

Geslani said a group offering jobs at “GLC Company,” which is supposedly located inside the Kandahar Airfield, is in fact an illegal recruitment syndicate.

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