Thirteen Filipinos were barred from leaving the country after they were caught carrying fake boarding passes at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3 last week, according to the Bureau of Immigration.
BI Port Operations Division Chief Grifton Medina said on Sunday that these individuals were supposed to travel to Hongkong when they were intercepted at the airline counter of Cathay Pacific.
There were seven men and six women at that counter when the airline personnel checked that they have self-printed boarding passes. They also found that they were not issued tickets by the said airline.
According to a report from Inquirer.net, Medina said these Filipinos were victims of scammers who sold them fake tickets at cheap prices after they were informed that their passes were not encoded in their system.
One of the passengers said that she didn’t know that their passes were fake since it was also handed to her by a certain woman named “Jennifer”.
They were all instructed to wear T-shirts bearing the name of a herbal product and instructed to take it off after they were cleared by the BI.
Photo courtesy: Bureau of Immigration Facebook page
