DINALUPIHAN, Bataan- The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) on Monday raided an enterprise that allegedly fronts as call center but in reality operates as a cybersex den at the second floor of a big building near the public market here.
Chief Insp. Rogart Campo, CIDG provincial chief, said they seized 62 computer sets, 13 USBs and brought for questioning 38 agents, 22 of them women, of the Midway 635 based on a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Remigio Escalada, Jr. of RTC Branch 3 in Balanga City.
Midway 635 describes itself as “the first, the biggest and legitimate call center in Dinalupihan.” An official of the Dinalupihan municipal government said the company has been operating in the town for two years .
CIDG said the business establishment disguised itself as call center but is actually engaged in the business of selling pornographic sites through online chatting using Yahoo messenger and Imesh applications. The applicants are trained to be chat sales agent or marketing agents.
No one from the personnel of the establishment would air their side. The owner of the call center is reportedly in Manila.
The CIDG head said they have placed the call center under continuous surveillance. He said that just before the Christmas season, they posted an informant in the call center who applied and was accepted as chat sales agent under an on-the-job training scheme.
Campo said their informant was able to secure obscene pictures and communications on how customers were enticed to join the sales agents in the chat room through various internet sites like Yahoo messenger, Skyte and Imesh applications.
Call center agents induced customers to become members of the site and asked for credit card details. Once convinced to enter in the internet site, the call center agents some of them gay and lesbian show the almost nude pictures of American models to the customers.
The call center agent in the chat room is tasked to create allegedly obscene profiles with pictures of foreign women and assume their identities. He or she introduces herself as one of those in the obscene pictures in exchange for some monetary considerations.
On how and for how much, the CIDG is still digging information, Campo said. He said they are preparing appropriate charges against the owner of the establishment and the call center agents in violation of the E-Commerce Act and Access Device Regulation Act.
Chief Insp. Rogart Campo, CIDG provincial chief, said they seized 62 computer sets, 13 USBs and brought for questioning 38 agents, 22 of them women, of the Midway 635 based on a search warrant issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Remigio Escalada, Jr. of RTC Branch 3 in Balanga City.
Midway 635 describes itself as “the first, the biggest and legitimate call center in Dinalupihan.” An official of the Dinalupihan municipal government said the company has been operating in the town for two years .
CIDG said the business establishment disguised itself as call center but is actually engaged in the business of selling pornographic sites through online chatting using Yahoo messenger and Imesh applications. The applicants are trained to be chat sales agent or marketing agents.
No one from the personnel of the establishment would air their side. The owner of the call center is reportedly in Manila.
The CIDG head said they have placed the call center under continuous surveillance. He said that just before the Christmas season, they posted an informant in the call center who applied and was accepted as chat sales agent under an on-the-job training scheme.
Campo said their informant was able to secure obscene pictures and communications on how customers were enticed to join the sales agents in the chat room through various internet sites like Yahoo messenger, Skyte and Imesh applications.
Call center agents induced customers to become members of the site and asked for credit card details. Once convinced to enter in the internet site, the call center agents some of them gay and lesbian show the almost nude pictures of American models to the customers.
The call center agent in the chat room is tasked to create allegedly obscene profiles with pictures of foreign women and assume their identities. He or she introduces herself as one of those in the obscene pictures in exchange for some monetary considerations.
On how and for how much, the CIDG is still digging information, Campo said. He said they are preparing appropriate charges against the owner of the establishment and the call center agents in violation of the E-Commerce Act and Access Device Regulation Act.
