The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) warned the public against illegal recruiters who are promising jobs in Afghanistan and Iraq where deployment bans are still in place.

Police operatives on Monday apprehended three illegal recruiters in Zamboanga City, according to a MindaNews report.

Officials from the Phillippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) in Manila and Cebu are in Dumaguete City to conduct a three-day seminar on Anti-Illegal Recruitment and Trafficking in Persons seminar.

Vice President Jejomar Binay is planning to talk to Chief Justice Renato Corona to make sure charges are filed against recruiters of overseas Filipino workers who are apprehended and offloaded.

Illegal recruitment, human trafficking and the lately, drug trafficking, will remain perennial problems in the country until government can stop the migration of Filipinos abroad in pursuit of a greener pasture.

Two British nationals and a Filipino are now facing charges of estafa and illegal recruitment for allegedly scamming around P1.7 million in processing and placement fees from aspiring overseas Filipino workers (OFW).

People from the countryside continue to be fooled by illegal job recruiters, the National Bureau of investigation disclosed Tuesday.

SURIGAO CITY – Authorities here arrested an American and his Filipina wife for alleged large-scale illegal recruitment of Filipinos applying for work abroad.

A memorandum of agreement has been signed in a move to reinforce the fight against illegal recruitment.

Authorities have arrested six persons who duped an aspiring overseas Filipino worker (OFW) into paying a large sum of money in exchange for a non-existent job abroad, Vice President Noli De Castro said.