An anonymous post on a social media platform has revealed just the tip of the iceberg of the "high-salary recruitment" scam in Southeast Asia. The poster claims to be a former employee of the cyber fraud park in the "100west" building in Makati, Philippines, exposing their two-month nightmare from a "high-salary white-collar" to a "dark prison laborer".
According to the description, after the Philippine police raided the 100 building on April 10, 2025, he and hundreds of Chinese colleagues were detained in the Migueldan prison for a month, and then transferred to the Montinlupa detention facility. On the night of the raid, the company moved some employees overnight to the Cambodian border, into iron sheet sheds—without air conditioning, water, electricity, and with food shortages, "old employees relied on robbing, and the vegetable soup only had a few leaves".
The employee belonged to the "Fortune" business line, and the group also had a team named "Shenglian". He revealed that the company's management was chaotic and commonly used violence as a threat. The so-called "business training" was actually a scam script brainwashing, requiring employees to memorize scripts and use false high returns to deceive the domestic public. Some employees were even beaten and imprisoned in "water cells" for resisting or falling ill, and had to pay a $5,000 "repatriation fee" to return to their country.
The poster pointed out that the behind-the-scenes operators included a daily manager known as "Brother Two" and others like "Boss Lin" and "Brother Bing", who were hiding in Hong Kong and various places in Southeast Asia. They daily posted false news in the work group about "Dubai branch opening" and "quarterly dividends" to whitewash the peace, but in reality, people in the work sheds had died from high fever and diarrhea, and their news was deliberately blocked.
What's more shocking is that after owing employees three months' wages, the company arranged unmarked charter flights to forcibly repatriate them. The flights had no medical support, and some people fainted and were even treated indifferently by the flight attendants: "If they die, just throw them down."
The prison iron windows were filled with malnourished Chinese laborers, and the walls of Montinlupa even had blood writings: "Boss Lin, give me my salary, I want to go home." According to incomplete statistics, in the first half of 2025 alone, the Philippine police had destroyed 37 similar scam parks, rescuing over 5,000 people, but many workers were still trapped on the Cambodian-Myanmar border.
Although the "Shenglian International" official website still hangs the recruitment advertisement of "Earning a million a year is not a dream", their phone has long been unreachable. This scam woven by the "high salary" bait has become the true nightmare of countless people's blood and tears.
