Waiter tells of job scam ordeal and 'over 1,000 Malaysians' held by syndicate


KUALA LUMPUR: A 20-year-old Melaka waiter never expected that the lucrative job offer dangled in front of him would nearly cost him his life.

His ordeal also saw him confined in a building in Myanmar where he claimed at least a thousand other Malaysians were being held against their will.

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