PHOTO ESSAY: Inside a detention center where scam workers wait for their return home

PASAY, Philippines (AP) — He had lost count of the number of times he was sold from company to company in the Philippines.After being lured there for an office job from his village in southern China by a relative, Wind said he immediately realized the job wasn’t as advertised. Instead of doing administrative work in Manila for 10,000 yuan ($1,500) a month as promised, he was required to scam people and paid around $50, he said.When he proved unable to scam, he was sold, he said. For the next several years, until the Filipino police raided his company, he was caught in a cycle, underperforming in scams, beaten and then sold. He was sold at least half a dozen times, ranging from a few thousand dollars to the highest, at 2.1 million pesos ($34,000), he said.“I regret it, but there’s no point