In the mountainous, landlocked Benguet province of the Philippines, 22-year-old college student Carl Genesis Contero died by suicide in August after losing hundreds of dollars, including his school tuition, to online gambling. Contero, who was studying to be a police officer, left behind a five-page note apologizing to his family and pleading for the government to ban online betting, his mother says. Hundreds of miles away in the southern province of Bukidnon, 26-year-old gasoline station worker Brayan Concha took his life earlier in the summer after running up his own debt. “I thought he was just betting small amounts through his e-wallet,” says his cousin Antonio. In fact, he’d run up 42,000 pesos ($735) in debt—more than four…
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