MCA helps teen escape clutches of Macau scammers


JOHOR BARU: A 17-year-old school dropout, who was promised a lucrative job “just to chat with people”, spent a year in misery when he ended up in Laos working as a scammer.

The boy, who was held captive in a building that was guarded by armed men, was forced to make calls every day similar to the modus operandi of a Macau syndicate.

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