If a Job Offer to work abroad is too good to be true, it often never is...

I am reading now this article by Susan Ople in the Panorama magazine where she again talks about these 18 Filipinos who were trafficked into the US - made to work on jobs not stipulated in their contracts, work in a state different from what was agreed on, and had their Social Security Cards withheld from them.  And to add salt to the wound, they were asked to shell out 250,000 pesos (roughly US$5820) each, to be able to get that working visa!  Only to be trafficked in the end!  What makes this debacle revolting is that fellow Filipinos did the duping!  To think that coming up with that huge amount of money may have meant selling their land or their carabao or their family's souls to the devil - with the hope of a handsome payback soon!  I am just glad that there are people like Susan Ople and Filipinos in the US willing to fight for our poor citizens who are duped into these human trafficking schemes.  That's why it is important then for every Filipino deciding to find work abroad, to have someone in their family or circle of friends to act as devil's advocate - so that they may find out that if some of the perks of the work turn out too be too tempting, that it may be just a ruse!  I really hope they go and jail those guys who made our fellowmen suffer.  This should send a good signal to unscrupulous job placement agencies to shape up!