Scammers now targeting the disabled, getting violent

Distraught: Chong (right) and Ti (left) with the victim’s parents at the press conference. — LOW BOON TAT/The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Their son suffers from mental and physical disabilities, but was trying to make his own way in the world.

He was then tempted by an overseas job offer that turned out to be too good to be true, and now his parents fear for his life after job scammers threatened to torture him unless they are paid off.