PETALING JAYA: Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution (pix) informed the Dewan Rakyat that some Malaysians who were saved from the overseas job scams actually went there to become scammers while some others were rescued beforehand.
According to a report by FMT, Saifuddin confirmed this, based on police investigations, that 339 scam victims in Laos, Cambodia, the Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates were identified.
The police had discovered two job agencies in the country embroiled in the job scams, having arrested eight people from both agencies. Meanwhile, police are currently in Thailand rescuing scam victims.
He added that police had interviewed the victims who were rescued and profiled them into four groups.
“(In the first group) there are those who left the country with the intention of becoming scammers and they have become successful in it as they conduct love and cryptocurrency scams and reach their targeted KPI.
“When they reach these KPIs, they don’t want to come back. I am being honest in confirming this.
“However, there are those who have failed to reach the KPI and they call the police to rescue them, claiming that they have become victims,” the minister clarified.
The second group consisted of victims who were previously rescued. Saifuddin said: “The police were crushed when they found out that there are those who have asked them to rescue them again. I am not making this up.”
Meanwhile, the third group comprised of those who went abroad to gamble and ran into some financial troubles when they turned to local loan sharks.
The Home Minister also said when they failed to pay back their debts, they would contact the police to save them and the police would still rescue them as Malaysia complied strictly with the “right to return” principle.
The fourth group involved victims who went abroad, genuinely taken in by the job offers, only to discover that the opportunity was not what it seemed on paper.
