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A Quick Trip To Milan

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MILAN, Italy -  Hi Guys, I snuck a quick trip to Italy.  Milan to be specific.  I had to visit an old friend.  
 
As I arrived in Milan, I checked in at the Crowne Plaza Milano Malpense Airport. There I had my breakfast and jumped off for my day trip using a whole day pass which cost only 7 Euros. 
 
 
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I was able to go around a lot using that pass and along the way met some interesting Filipino people.  They said they had been following me on social media.  Oh, and since I'm on this, please do like my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MalcolmConlanPage/">Facebook Page, Malcolm Conlan</a>.  I realized that I have so many friends on Facebook who still haven't liked my page. 
 
 
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I visited the Philippine Consulate too.  Also visited a Filipino Restaurant for some Halo-Halo. 
 
Finally, I visited my friend who I had come here for. His name is Jollibee. 
 
 
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MILAN, Italy - Hi Guys, I snuck a quick trip to Italy. Milan to be specific. I had to visit an old friend. As I arrived in Milan, I ...

Dreaming of a better life in the UK?

Saturday, June 27, 2020 0

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 I am deeply troubled by the massive increase in visa scams, which target Filipino citizens, by encouraging them to fly to the UK in the search of a better life. Every month I receive countless messages on Facebook, from Filipinos asking me how they should apply to come to the UK. These people continuously ask me about the possibilities available to come to the UK, to gain employment as a waiter, bar staff, porter and other similar jobs. Let's start by making it very clear, according the latest figures released in March by the Office of National Statistics, there are 1.86 million people unemployed in the UK at this time. I am hoping that common sense dictates that if we already have 1.8 million people who are looking for work over here, why would any UK employer look overseas to employ people in unskilled jobs? Personally I believe that they should, however reality tells me that this would not make any financial sense. Employers would then have to pay for visas, flights, and recruitment costs. This is not feasible for our country, when we have so many citizens seeking employment here already. The reason why I believe that I need to address this important issue is because I understand that life is already hard enough for Filipinos, who try to support their family back home. This admirable feat is even harder when hard-working Filipinos lose their precious savings, by falling into the traps of these online visa scams. So how does the scam usually work? The easiest way to summarise my advice is to draw on an old saying, “if it seems to good to be true, it probably isn't.” The scam that I often come across the most uses a 7-prong approach. 1. People in search of work abroad would usually look online, so the scam is quite easy. Firstly the scammer creates a fake email address, they often just make up a name or find the name of someone who has deceased on the Internet. They will commonly register this with a Hotmail or Gmail email provider, and then they will search online for a photo of a British man to take up this false identity. 2. To make this “identity” more believable they create a fake Facebook account, add some friends, and post some other photos and events etc. The key to avoiding being a victim here is to look carefully at a persons profile before you accept them on Facebook. What you usually find is that they have very recently opened their account. Maybe they would have just a few friends, mostly other Filipino victims. If they mention they are working, do a search on Google for the employer, add their name in the search and browse further online. Often, the scams originate in Africa, every time I have spotted fakers profile pages; they have common friends from Nigeria or West Africa. 3. They post jobs on the common sites like Gumtree and recruitment websites like Total Jobs etc, giving their fake email address and a UK mobile number. This is usually a fake number, so do your homework and call it. If it doesn't connect, you know it’s not a genuine job advert. 4. Read the advert carefully. There may be spelling mistakes or they may have used American English. Most computers around the world are set to American English, if the person posting the job is British, they would check this. Also look at postings for jobs requiring common skills, no employer in the UK would look to the Philippines in search of waiters, drivers, cleaners, as people with those skills could already be found here. Maybe if they were searching for nurses, doctors or engineers yes, but they would not be searching on a job site with a Hotmail email account. 5. When they think they have hooked you, then begins the relentless campaign to extract as much money from you as they possibly can. How? First they send you an email asking for your CV and telling you about the job. Again, check for spelling mistakes, bad grammar, unrealistic promises and salaries. If you are not sure of the general salary levels for that job type, check online. 6. The next step is that they attempt to put you in touch with their recommended solicitors. You can usually find that they have searched online and come up with a massive legal firm. They then create a fake website using that name. Study the website, a key indicator to checking any site or company is to call them. If someone answers with “hello, who is this?” it is definitely a fake. 7. Finally, they send you a visa processing form and a request for a 'processing fee' usually around £800 GBP or $1,000. This is how they make the money. Then they ask you to send it, not to the solicitor’s office but to an address overseas, paid by Western Union. The general rule is that if you apply for any job in the UK and its legitimate, the employer would not expect you to pay any costs, IF COSTS ARE REQUIRED THEN IT IS A SCAM! Please be warned and pass this advice along to all your friends and relatives in the UK and Philippines. Maraming Salamat Po, until next time! ---Malcolm Conlan 
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In 2017, I was able to visit my beloved 
Philippines. I took the trip towards the end of the year. One of the 
highlights of that November trip was a visit to the Rizal Park where the
 National Hero, Jose Rizal is interred.......<a href="https://www.fil-event.com/2020/06/looking-back-to-my-visit-to-philippines.html">Read More</a> 
 
 
 
 
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I first started to visit the Philippines
 when I was around 18 years old. My journey commenced when I watched 
Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Up until that point, I have
 always been a fan of musical theatre and the arts so when I was 
younger, my hobby was watching various musicals, concerts and live 
performances as much as possible.......<a href="https://www.fil-event.com/2020/06/why-i-have-such-love-respect-and.html">Read More</a> 
 
 
 
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Shocking Story Confirmed : British National Passes Away In Cebu

Saturday, June 20, 2020 0

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I am in great shock as I read this story posted on the Facebook wall of a gentleman who goes by the name of Byron Garcia from Cebu.  I have not had the time anymore to ask the permission of Mr. Garcia to post this on my blog, but since the settings have been for public viewing, I know he would not mind my sharing the story.  I am both shocked and saddened with this event.   
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SHOCKING STORY CONFIRMED! (as posted by Byron Garcia, June 15, 2020) This British National was named Barry Grote and sad to say, he died alone with no relatives in Cebu. Yesterday, June 14, 2020, at around 1PM, Barry complained he had difficulty breathing to the management of OASIS Condo and some friends, so an ambulance was called and was picked up immediately thereafter. When the ambulance reached the nearest hospital, Chong Hua Mandaue, they were denied treatment and were told to proceed to Chong Hua Hospital Fuente, so the ambulance had to go there. When the ambulance reached Chong Hua Hospital Fuente, they were not received at the ER and were just made to wait from 2PM until 10PM. With no alternative, the patient just waited patiently inside the ambulance and had to wait for any word from the management of Chong Hua Hospital, whether he would be admitted or not. The British national passed the time talking to the ambulance crew the whole time (2PM-10PM) until later, he suddenly went into cardiac arrest. The crew immediately tried to revive the patient by doing CPR and ACLS (advance cardiac life support) while they informed dispatch of the situation. When an officer of the ambulance company arrived, he appealed to the doctors to treat their patient but was refused by two doctors at the ER saying THEY WERE JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS AND PROTOCOL. PASTILAN (OMG)! While the ambulance crew were still reviving the patient, the Chong Hua doctors and nurses just stood and watch as the patient was hanging on to dear life. The ambulance officer pleaded the Doctors as the patient needed hospital emergency. At this point the ambulance officer was already surrounded by 5 security guards ready to tackle him. This created a commotion prompting the Hospital medical supervisor to come out of his office and talked to the ambulance officer, after a while, ordered the stretchers out and fetch the British National. But it was too late, he was clinically dead when ER staff fetched him outside the ER compound. PS: A Caucasian friend of Barry was contacted by the OASIS CONDO management around midnight apparently he is out of the country. A certain Lenny Mills and 3 other friends are currently negotiating with the hospital for his eventual discharge/ cremation soon as they are still contacting his family. ----- Someone please explain to me why this is so in the Philippines? 
 
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 Update : Mr. Tim Murray made a note on my Facebook page to give this narrative : On Sunday, Barry Grote, a British national, was taken by his friends in an ambulance to a private hospital after he complained he had trouble breathing. One of Grote’s friends was presented a bill amounting to P39,000 for the 30-minute attempt to resuscitate him.
 

 
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In 2017, I was able to visit my beloved Philippines.  I took the trip towards the end of the year.  One of the highlights of that November trip was a visit to the Rizal Park where the National Hero, Jose Rizal is interred.   
My friend Lloyd, whom I have known since the early 1990s picked me up at the Starbucks in Roxas Boulevard and we made our way to Rizal Park around a kilometer away. It was great to visit the shrine of Jose Rizal.  As you may have known, Jose Rizal did spend some time in my country, England, in the late 19th century.  He was also a well-traveled person having spent time in Germany, France, and other parts of the continent. Lloyd and I were there just briefly.  I wish though that in my next visit, I could spend more time and also visit Fort Santiago where Rizal was detained prior to his execution. God bless the Philippines and her people. Mabuhay tayong 
lahat! 
 

 
 
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I first started to visit the Philippines when I was around 18 years old. My journey commenced when I watched Miss Saigon at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Up until that point, I have always been a fan of musical theatre and the arts so when I was younger, my hobby was watching various musicals, concerts and live performances as much as possible. I ended up watching Miss Saigon over 50 times at various locations around the UK as well as in New York. I was never any good at Geography and to be honest, when I was younger, I never really had an interest in other countries or world affairs, so to be frank here, I didn’t actually have any clue where the Philippines even was or anything about the Filipino people. However, through watching Miss Saigon, I learned that the majority of the cast were Pinoy including the lead role of Kim, (Lea Salonga) and the alternate Kim (Monique Wilson). In those days, (late 80’s and the 90’s) there was no such thing as Facebook so it was hard to follow the lives of these stars or to learn about other cultures via social media channels. I used to wait at the stage door on many nights, to collect the autographs of the cast and meet them. I even took a few photos, in those treasured days when you actually didn’t know how well your photo had turned out until you got it developed weeks later! (Til this day I still have some Miss Saigon memorabilia which I treasure). So, I guess I developed a passion for Filipinos and Pinoy culture through my love of the show. I believe even now, Miss Saigon can be credited for bringing over a generation of talented Filipino stars and indeed introducing them to the world stage. You only need to look at the impact Lea Salonga has had around the world in terms of promoting the Philippines and her work in musical theatre. As well as being cast as Kim in London at the sweet age of seventeen, she went on to lead in other shows including Les Miserables where she played Eponine, and even performed at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. There have been successive stars who have helped to introduce Filipino culture and talent to the world stage. These include many other cast members including Monique Wilson, Miguel Diaz, Joanna Ampil, Pinky Amador and now Jon Jon Briones (who starred as the Engineer in the last production in the UK as well as being in the original cast back in 1989) and the collection of more emerging Filipina talents such as Rachelle Ann Go, and the American-born Filipina Eva Noblezada who plays Kim in this amazing revival. This article however is not really about Miss Saigon, what it is about in fact is the impact the Philippines and Filipino people have had on my life. So many people ask me why I love the country and people so much? I guess through my experiences and the hospitable welcome I received when I made my first trip ever abroad to the Philippines when I was eighteen years old; I have engraved the Philippines in my heart and mind. So the question remains, why do I have such love, respect and admiration for the Filipino people? There are some eleven million overseas Filipino workers or OFW’s around the globe. You see Filipino’s in nearly every airport, hotel, hospital, care home, airline and other service sector industry around the world, caring for and helping people; be it looking after a sick relative, caring for the elderly, looking after people’s homes or family or serving the public. Filipino’s are in my opinion a very caring and hospitable people, what helps them to stand out I believe and make them so employable in these sectors is their passion, dedication, empathy and of course their smile and ‘can do’ attitude. Filipino’s are never afraid of working hard to support their families and pursue their dreams. How many Filipino’s do you see relying on benefits or state support? In the Philippines, there is no unemployment benefit or many of the other benefits that we often take for granted here in the UK and Europe. Hard work and sacrifice therefore prevail, to the point of some Filipino’s being forced to leave their homes and families to seek a better life abroad is something all too common and I believe admirable. Filipinos have managed to blend into society, culture and accommodated to different lifestyles worldwide. My worry with this however is that sometimes Filipino’s may need a voice, as they are often very tragically taken advantage of and mistreated due to their caring, accepting attitudes, unwilling to make a fuss or seem out of place. I never really wanted to become a voice or indeed campaign for Filipino issues and concerns, although through the power of social media and my writing of ‘Open Letters,’ I have stood up and become one of those voices who believe that the Filipino people deserve only the upmost respect and admiration for their contribution to the world. This voice needs to be heard and the rights of Filipino’s worldwide need to be respected and upheld. Finally, I would like to see a day when leaving the Philippines in search of work and a better life becomes a choice and not a necessity, God bless the Philippines and her people. Mabuhay tayong lahat.' 
 

 
 
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Advice to Filipinos and others around the world who feel they might be being scammed. </div>
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Firstly, I welcome this opportunity in sharing my advice and experience of being on social media and how to surf safely. I am most grateful to those who have shared this and posted it for allowing me to warn Filipinos to take care when online. </div>
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As a bit of background, I have been on Facebook probably for around 14 years and as such, I have seen how Facebook has developed into a fantastic resource for people to connect with their friends and relatives globally. </div>
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With tools such as Facebook live, messenger, and photo albums, as well as all the chat groups, forums, and helpful groups which have been set up to help us all keep updated, #Facebook is a valuable tool that many are grateful for. </div>
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But, with this, comes a downside, whenever you have an application which connects people and genuinely benefits society, you will always have people try to exploit that. Sadly, there are individuals, as well as criminal gangs who use applications such as Facebook and especially groups on Facebook to extract hard-earned money from innocent individuals through fraud, romance scams, fake job opportunities, and visa scams. </div>
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Sadly, a very popular and some would say easy target, are those individuals who are trying to better their lives abroad and escape poverty and hardship. When you are desperate, sometimes, you don’t think rationally, you let your guard down and cling on to the slightest hope that you could have found a way of making your life just a bit better through either forming an online romance or even applying for a job overseas to try to better your life. </div>
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Whilst I fully understand and appreciate your intentions, I must caution you, that there are many individuals online who will try to trick you into parting with your hard-earned cash and offer nothing in return, except for a few romantic, often scripted words and buckets full of false hope. </div>
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How does it work? </div>
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It’s very easy to set up a fake profile sadly, online. Of course, all credit to Facebook, they are doing their best to combat this, but there tricksters and thieves are very clever. </div>
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The scammer would usually identify a Facebook account online or a profile which is open and public, the scammer would then usually steal the photos from that profile. They like profiles of maybe western-looking men, well dressed, in a variety of different poses, maybe with family, walking the dog, driving, walking, on the beach, etc, this way they can play out a fake relationship with their chosen victim/victims (They usually have multiple victims on the go at the same time). </div>
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With this collection of photos, they would make up a fake name, for example, John Smith, this is normally very far removed from their actual name. </div>
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They would then set up a fake email address or even hack into the account of some unsuspecting individual and start the scam. </div>
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They often post on romance apps and various, guy meets lady websites. Then the scam begins, they tell you that they are looking for love and romance. They then start to spam you, often on WhatsApp or chat or whatever app they ask you to contact them on. </div>
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They normally operate in shifts, so often, when you think you are talking to John Smith, you may find that you are actually talking to a member of a criminal gang, somewhere in The Gambia, Accra or in Eastern Europe or in a hotbed where there may be scammers operating. </div>
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Of course, there are scammers in many countries, but by pointing out some obvious ones might ring alarm bells if you are asked to send money by Western Union to certain countries. </div>
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As some of these areas have very strong religious beliefs and many are God-fearing, check the language they use, if they call you dear or tell you that you will trust in God or are called blessing or have a similar name, you know immediately that you are being scammed. They will usually then tell you that they want to spend the rest of their lives with you, as long as you will pay their airfare or you have given them money to pay their hospital bills, etc. </div>
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There are also so many fake job opportunities online if you are offered any job that is not on the UK government skills occupation shortage list (google it) then you are being scammed. As much as I would love for Filipino carers, nannies, chefs, drivers, and factory workers to be able to come to the UK for work, it’s absolutely impossible. </div>
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So anyone asking for ANY money whatsoever in the process of you applying for any of these imaginary jobs is an absolute scammer. Please advise your relatives back home to be very careful. ANY visa processing fees, legal costs, processing costs, when if they offer to pay half of the fees, is still a scam and your friends or relatives are simply throwing hard-earned money down the toilet. Most likely, they would ask the sender to send the illicitly gained wealth from your relatives by Western Union or Moneygram or similar to somewhere in West Africa. </div>
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You will also find these visa applications, job specs, etc, look totally fake and are littered with spelling mistakes. You have been warned, dear friends!!!</div>
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Please feel free to look me up on social media if you want me to check over any such fake opportunities, I would be more than happy to help out where I can. Just search for ‘Malcolm Conlan’ on Facebook, until next time, Salamat po.</div>
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(Finally, I know Facebook is going to massive lengths to combat these frauds, but sadly these fake accounts are being set up every few seconds, so please bear with them, thanks. Remember to report any profiles you know are fake.  Thanks).</div>

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