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.
Syafinaz said they were deprived of sleep as they had to work from morning until midnight, and were cut off from the outside world. A third victim, Sim Yong Fei, 33, escaped to Thailand and was held at the Immigration Detention Centre before being sent back to Malaysia. “We were threatened with having to eat pork or rat and women were subject to rape threats,” she said, thanking those who brought her home.
Syafinaz later had a tearful reunion with her sister Syafirah, 16, and her aunt Saloma, 41, who has been caring for the two siblings since the death of their parents.
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