A total of 456 more jobseekers have surfaced to file complaints against two women being hunted by police for large-scale illegal recruitment, the Task Force Anti-Illegal Recruitment (Tfair) said Saturday.

A woman who goes by different names is being hunted by the police for tricking more than 700 Filipino workers to part with their money for non-existent jobs in the United Kingdom.

Vice President Noli De Castro on Wednesday urged victims of illegal recruitment to seek help from his task force so that the culprits would be thrown to where they belong — in jail.

About five hundred women were virtually held hostage in Manila, locked inside a decrepit six-story building, uncertain if the agency that recruited them would ever place them in jobs overseas.

An alleged illegal recruiter offering nursing jobs in Canada was arrested in a police sting operation in Bacolod City Thursday, an online news site reported Friday.

The Department of Labor and Employment will use the full force of law against illegal recruitment agencies.

16 would-be OFWs saved from illegal recruiter – KIMBERLY JANE T. TAN, GMANews.TV Sixteen aspiring overseas Filipino workers from far-flung provinces were rescued by members of the Task Force Against Illegal Recruitment (Tfair) from a house of a suspected illegal recruiter in San Mateo, Rizal last week.

Be bright. Don’t be victimized (Maging Matalino. Huwag Paloko). This is the warning issued by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration as it cautioned the public on the proliferation of illegal recruiters. In order to avoid being victims of illegal recruiters the public must make sure that the recruiter has a license, has a job order [...]