KULIM: Malaysians who are victims of job scams and find themselves stranded in foreign countries are those easily swayed by advertisements on social media offering job opportunities with attractive salaries and other benefits.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said subsequently, their family members or parents would lodge a missing person report or seek help to locate them abroad.
The root cause is the tendency to be easily manipulated into believing the social media campaigns where they are offered lucrative income, comfortable accommodation, paid plane fares and all kinds of things when working abroad.
"...and when they get there (destination country) things are not as promised and some are able to contact the police," he told reporters near here today.
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Chee Choy Won, 50, said this was because the videos were uploaded on a new Facebook account under the name of ‘Moe Aye'.
Saifuddin Nasution said the woman’s disappearance has been left to the police to investigate and so far he has not received any updates on the case.
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