Fake Call Center-Philippines Arrests 11 Over Online Child Porn

[Jollygoodfellow]

:angry: not more fun in the Philippines if your a vulnerable child. 

 

 

 

 

Philippine authorities said Wednesday they had detained 11 people in raids on two fake call centre businesses that sold child pornography online to global clients.

 

The raids came after police said this month the Philippines had become a major source of pornographic content in the fast-growing child cybersex industry, and vowed to crack down on those involved.

 

The raids took place overnight Tuesday on two Manila businesses that used nude pictures of children, as well as adults, to entice people online to subscribe to pornographic websites, the National Bureau of Investigation said.

 

“They were caught in flagrante (in the act of wrongdoing),” Ronald Aguto, head of the bureau’s cybercrime unit, told AFP, in reference to the 11 Filipinos who had been detained.

 

“Some of the computers contained child pornography as well as adult pornography.”

 

Some of the nude photographs on the computers were of unidentified Filipino children aged about 12-16, according to Aguto.

 

He said the suspects faced potential child pornography and human trafficking charges against the suspects, although authorities still needed to investigate the case further.

 

Aguto said the business model involved staff chatting online with people overseas, showing them pornographic photos, in a bid to lure them into buying website subscriptions.

 

The businesses received a commission of $5 for each subscription, and together cleared more than $8,000 a day, according to Aguto.

 

The government pledge to crack down on child cybersex operations came after British and Australian police announced this month they had dismantled a paedophile ring that streamed live sexual abuse of Filipino children over the Internet.

 

Philippine police subsequently said the country was one of the world’s biggest sources of live streaming of child sex abuse, with children performing acts in front of webcams to online paedophiles in an industry worth billions of dollars.

 

Poverty and the promise of easy money had seen some Filipino parents allowing their children to be abused online for the paying audience, they added.

 

Aguto said Wednesday authorities had not found evidence of video streaming on the computers seized in the Manila raids. 

 

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/January/international_January821.xml&section=international

[Medic Mike]

I am truly amazed that there is such a market for this stuff that the offenders have to go to such great lengths to sell it.

[Tukaram (Tim)]

Damn, $8,000 a day... that is a lot of people buying child porn.  I don't think I would be comfortable buying that from a telemarketer... just seems odd. (not that I would buy any at all.)

 

I know it is not funny but I can't help but imagine what their script would be for cold calling....

[Call me bubba]

more recent update on this ......

Two firms selling pornographic websites,

some including child pornography content, were raided by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

Eleven male employees in the office of Werrcomm Solutions Incorporated,

located along Valenzuela Street in Sta. Mesa, Manila, were caught Tuesday engaging in online transactions with foreigners seeking pornographic content on the Internet.

According to NBI Cyber Crime Division chief Ronald Aguto Jr., the employees earn money by luring foreigners into signing up on porn websites.

 

"This is more of a company selling different porn sites, including child porn sites, [featuring children] as young as I guess about 12 to 15 years old," Aguto said.

An employee of Werrcomm admitted that the firm is engaged in such a business.

He said Werrcomm employees are asked to pretend as female foreigners, sometimes even as minors, in order to entice clients, mostly American, British or Australian nationals, into signing up on their websites.

"Bobolahin namin. Pagka-bola namin, halimbawa sasabihin ko sasali ako ng Ms. Bali Beach sa Indonesia taops kailangan ko ng vote mo.

One sign up per vote, kapag nabola na namin magsa-sign up sila. Doon na pumapasok ang pera," the employee said.

The employee said the firm earns 3 British pounds(about P220). Aguto said the firm earns as much as P200,000 a day.

Police seized some 25 desktop computers loaded with pornographic content from the firm.

In Quezon City, the NBI also raided the office of International Contact Centers Solutions on Wedensday morning.

About 20 employees were caught selling porn websites and some 17 desktop computers were seized.

Aguto, also present in the raid, said NBI agents have yet to see whether the website subscriptions being sold by ICCS employees contained child pornography.

"Iyung mga empleyado na nadatnan natin, iimbitahan natin sila sa NBI at ang mga equipment ay dadalin ito at ie-examine natin," Aguto said.

The NBI said the owners of the two firms are facing violations of the Anti-Child Pornography Act. Aguto also revealed that one of the incorporators of ICCS, identified as Raul Barbosa, is also connected to Werrcomm Solutions Incorporated.

 

Investigators are also coordinating with their foreign counterparts in order to dismantle the operations of peddlers of child pornography around the world.

 

PH a key child porn hub

 

Police earlier admitted that the Philippines has rapidly become a key hub of the billion-dollar global child cybersex industry,

with operators aided by widespread poverty and legal loopholes that allow them to remain anonymous.

Paying subscribers anywhere in the world can log in to sites operated from Manila and across the archipelago that stream the abuse of Filipino children on the Internet, Senior Superintendent Gilbert Sosa said.

Police in Britain, Australia and the Philippines earlier said they had jointly dismantled a pedophile ring that streamed live sexual abuse of Filipino children as young as six over the Internet.

In some cases, the victims' parents were involved.

Fifteen victims aged between six and 15 have been rescued, Britain's National Crime Agency said, adding that 29 people had been arrested, including 11 in the Philippines.

Three other ongoing investigations have identified 733 suspects, the agency added.

Sosa said the Philippines is a "top 10" purveyor of what he described as a global "cottage industry (worth) billions of dollars".

The victims are mostly younger than 18, he said, recounting how he took part in some police raids in the northern city of Angeles, where boys and girls aged between 10 and 14 performed "lewd acts" in front of cameras.

Some of the suspects arrested are Americans or Europeans, with Filipino "cohorts", he said.

 

In Manila, he said the streaming is done inside hotel rooms. It is also done in 31 of the Philippines' 81 provinces, with Angeles,

the central city of Cebu and the southern city of Cagayan de Oro being the other main sites.

 

Sosa said some of the streaming is done inside shanties in the sprawling slums of the Philippines, a country of 100 million where one in four people live on less than a dollar a day, according to government data.

Video streaming earned them at least $100 an hour, and photo sessions were worth up to 3,000 pesos (about $66), he added.

Sosa said most people who pay to view the activity are from the United States and Europe.

Sosa said the crime had spread through the help of wireless technology where users cannot be effectively tracked by law enforcers. –

 

 

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/01/29/14/two-firms-selling-child-porn-raided-manila-qc

 

I am truly amazed that there is such a market for this stuff that the offenders have to go to such great lengths to sell it.

I am appalled(disgusted) at this, when I have seen the TV interviews on such activity in the past,

 these people( i cant call them parents. as  no parent would ever do this)

have NO CONSCIENCE or REMORSE. as they just see it as nothing was done wrong.

or "others are doing it. why cant we. so we can have money to eat"

 

I have refrained in the past in making political comments

or comments regarding society in general.

HOWEVER I have said this before ( i think)

 

  if the elected ones can improve education(system)  thats provided and offer more REAL employment opportunities,

the people would not have no need to do this  C@%&p.

as their lives would then be uplifted 

                                     .NO further comment

Edited January 30, 2014 by Pittman apartments Sgn

[jpbago]

  if the elected ones can improve education(system)  thats provided and offer more REAL employment opportunities, the people would not have no need to do this  C@%&p. as their lives would then be uplifted 

 

Uneducated people are much easier to control, hence the elected ones will stay in power. The poor also are easier to control, hence the elected ones will stay in power.

Not much has changed in the PI for many generations. Google various cities to see who the mayor was for the past 100 years. 

The excuse many people give for many things that they do is "We are poor. We got no choice."

[Call me bubba]

this type of crime /abuse is terrible,just terrible...

,1.  I must comment on the ingenuity or marketing skills

 that those who are/were involved.(ONLY THAT not the crime itself)

can you think of how more successful they would have been if they

did a POSITIVE business?

2.at least no Foreigner was involved in the local/Philippine operations.(so far no reports)

had that been the case

i"m certain that some type of media frenzy would occur and those who live here would suffer

 

being a long time resident here, and the way things happen,

I am sure we will see more of this activity/behavior.

                                .....So sad indeed...... 

Edited February 2, 2014 by Pittman apartments Sgn