Save trafficked Malaysians


Modern slavery: Human traffickers target naive, unaware, or desperate individuals and offer them higher paying jobs overseas. Then they are kidnapped and forced to become scammers. — TNS

LAST Wednesday, The Star ran a front page story on Malaysians who were basically kidnapped and trafficked to work overseas as scammers.

I’ve done a little bit of work within civil society on these cases, and was glad to see the extra coverage.

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