New Beware When Traveling Through The Philippine Airports, That At That Topographic Point Is A Scam Airdrome Safety Uses To Extort Coin From Foreigners. The Lonely Bullet Scam

By news flash January 31, 2019 Add Comment Edit

travelers are targeted, every bit anyone amongst the coin to opor-garai together with wing on an airline has the coin to pay a bribe.

Unlicensed possession or buy of firearms together with ammunition is illegal inward the Philippines.

CNN Philippines reports that law bring recorded xxx alleged cases of the scam, known locally every bit "tanim bala," betwixt Jan together with Nov 2015.

Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport, has beingness crowned the world's worst for 3 years inward a row

The Philippine regime National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) after confirmed that an extortion syndicate is behind the bullet planting scheme

According to the NBI's investigation, only about porters are involved inward identifying potential victims of the bullet planting scam.

Allegedly, aerodrome officials inward the safety together with immigration services acquaint inward the iv terminals of the aerodrome pursue target victims after their identification past times porters.

Usual victims were establish to live on the elderly together with "overseas Filipino workers"

tips for avoiding the scam:

saran roll your luggage. This keeps aerodrome workers from tossing a bullet inward your luggage pockets

These include using a difficult representative together with avoiding luggage amongst external pockets
wrapping the entire purse inward cling film,
together with calling inward witnesses, lawyers together with aerodrome supervisors if safety insists on going through bags.