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See, this is why Filipinos dominate the Asian cam market: because there's less opportunity, and/or willingness, to 'sell ass' in other ways - like in bars or porn or prostitution - than in Thailand, which has ten times as many foreign (aka sex) tourists as the Philippines.

Ironically, unlike years ago when their passports were simple and handwritten (and cam sites didn't even insist on a passport as ID), these days Philippine passports are modern, machine readable and have a remarkable level of anti-counterfeiting.

Also ironically, given their entire economy basically depends on sending Filipinos abroad to work, the level of proof of identity when applying for a passport is absurdly high, perhaps due to the slack record-keeping otherwise and perhaps due to pressure from other countries, requiring multiple IDs (which themselves can be an enormous hassle to obtain) to establish a person is who they claim to be.

I'd certainly trust a Philippine passport before a Russian passport, it being an endemically corrupt Mafia State that leads the world in underage porn.

That issue has always existed. It's usually not because they're underage (I don't think Filipino bosses care about that one way or the other), rather than they just don't have a passport.

Because of the relative hassle to get a one, many people who should be entitled to a passport are denied one because they either lack other IDs needed, or their ID, or even birth certificate, has been filled out incorrectly due to incompetence.

As to one of them looking un-legal, they may well have been underage and TBH probably were, but Asians and Filipinos often do look younger than they are, and I know for a fact of a cam site rejecting someone in their 20s because the site claimed they looked underage on their (genuine) passport photograph.