KUALA LUMPUR: Expecting to earn a high pay overseas, two teenage friends who answered an online job advertisement ended up working 12-hour shifts for scammers in Myanmar.
They managed to return home safely on Friday – but not before their families paid RM10,000 to a human-trafficking syndicate for their release, ending their three-month ordeal.
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