SIBU: Lucrative job offers abroad can turn into traps set by international criminal syndicates, with job seekers deceived and subsequently forced to carry out online scam activities.
Southeast Asia Welfare and Education Foundation (SEAWEED) chairman Datuk Dr Mustapha Ahmad Marican said young people, particularly school leavers, were among those most easily swayed by offers of high salaries and attractive perks advertised on social media.
He explained that victims typically only realised they had been deceived upon arriving in the destination country, where their passports were confiscated, their movements restricted and they were coerced into performing work entirely different from what had originally been promised.
