This was announced by  Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Ricardo David, Jr., who said that the incident happened last February 16 when the passenger attempted to board aPhilippine Airlines flight to Singapore. 

The woman, he said, wore an artificial mole to make it appear that she and the woman in her passport who is her look-alike are one and the same. 

David declined to reveal the passenger’s name as the anti-trafficking law forbids the public disclosure of human trafficking victims.                                          

He also warned other Filipinos who want to work abroad to desist from employing tricks that would enable them to leave the country illegally.                         

“Such tricky and deceptive schemes will not work because it will not escape the eyes of our people at the airports,” David said.                                                      

BI airport operations division acting chief Benito Se, said the passenger was lining up at the immigration departure counter when she was invited for further questioning.                                                                                                                                 

Se said the woman was reportedly traveling as a tourist but had no hotel reservation and could not explain her purpose in going to Singapore .                               

According to Se, the TCEU personnel noticed certain dissimilarities in the facial features of the passenger compared to the picture of the woman in her passport that she was asked to wipe her face with a handkerchief which caused the removal of the fake mole in her face. 

Se said the passenger was subsequently  turned over to officials of the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) at the NAIA for further investigation.                

Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/metro/25556-human-trafficking-victim-intercepted-at-naia