NOT all Malaysians rescued from job scams overseas are real “victims”, as some had gone abroad to work as scammers themselves and got stranded there, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
Although many people had been genuinely victimised by job syndicates, the Home Minister stated that some people wanted to be a part of such rackets overseas.
“They have become successful because they pulled off love and cryptocurrency scams and reached their targeted KPI,” he said in response to a follow-up question from Sim Tze Tzin about what the government is doing to stop middlemen who are part of job scam gangs. The third group involved those who went overseas to gamble and then ran into difficulties when they borrowed money from loan sharks.“The police would still rescue them as Malaysia strictly adhered to the ‘right to return’ principle,” he said.
On another matter, Saifuddin said the government is mulling over whether to introduce a new federal cyber crime law, which is expected to be tabled in July.
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