Glad to be free from ordeal


Tearful reunion: Syafinaz (left) being greeted by her sister Syafirah upon arriving at KLIA. — LOW BOON TAT/The Star

SEPANG: A hundred squats, delayed meals and even rape threats were the punishments that victims of a job scam syndicate in Myanmar faced if they failed to hit their daily target even after working 16 hours trying to con other people.

Syafinaz Abdullah, 19, from Johor, one of the three job scam victims to return to Malaysia yesterday, said she and her friend Muhammad Hafiz Mazlan, 26, were lured by an offer of a purported foreign exchange marketing job.

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