The massive online fraud crisis roiling Southeast Asia risks damaging relations between nations, Malaysia's foreign minister has warned, after 21 more Malaysians returned from ordeals in casino compounds housing scam operations in Cambodia and Laos. Syndicates dominated by Chinese gangsters have set up bases across Southeast Asia to run vast online scams targeting vulnerable people across Asia and beyond with.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim Chee Keong has urged the government to stop the recruitment of Malaysian workers to Cambodia until the issue of job scams.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 It is estimated that some 3,000 Malaysians have been lured to countries like Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand by human trafficking syndicates offering.
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 More than half of the 284 Malaysians reported as victims of overseas job scams are still abroad, police secretary Datuk Noorsiah Mohd Saaduddin disclosed.