‘Use Sosma against job scammers’

Scam grounds: Barbed wire fences are seen outside a shuttered compound where the local authorities said they had recovered evidence of human trafficking, kidnapping and torture during raids on suspected cybercrime compounds in the coastal city of Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

PETALING JAYA: Drastic steps, such using preventive laws and screening youngsters going overseas, will cut down the number of Malaysians falling prey to overseas job scam syndicates, say community activists.These activists, who have rescued Malaysians duped by fake foreign job scams, said the authorities and the private sector should work together to take down advertisements linked to the syndicates and identify the Malaysians who post them.

“Although the syndicates are masterminded by foreigners, there are Malaysians who are in cahoots with them,” said MCA Public Services and Complaints Department head Datuk Seri Michael Chong.