The Bureau of Immigration (BI) warned on Friday the traveling public not to fall prey to recruiters providing fake documents.

The warning was issued by BI in response to the case of a female traveler who was stopped from departing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on 19 October after a BI officer discovered that her departure had earlier been postponed after she was discovered using fraudulent travel credentials.

The passenger stated she was traveling to Oman to visit her husband but the marriage certificate she produced was forged.

She eventually admitted that every document she had submitted was a fabrication, including the purported affidavit of support from her partner.

The passenger intended to depart for Malaysia in September of last year, but immigration agents stopped her because she was carrying the wrong paperwork, according to a later review of her travel history.

According to the BI's immigration protection and border enforcement unit (I-PROBES), the victim even supplied an altered wedding photo to officials to mislead them.

The victim also admitted that she paid more than P30,000 for the fake documents, which authorities believe were used to illegally work abroad.

Her case was immediately forwarded to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) to file cases against her recruiter.