Filipinos turn to online scams after losing jobs in Pogo crackdown

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Filipinos who once worked for offshore gaming operators are turning to online scams, law enforcement officials have warned, amid signs that the industry’s shutdown has given way to a more fragmented and harder-to-police criminal landscape.Many of those recently arrested for cybercrime offences had “branched out on their own”, using skills they had gained while working at Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos), according to Brigadier General Bernard Yang, head of the Philippine National...