Overseas jobs scam: 72 agents in police net

Police have arrested 72 people suspected of running illegal overseas job rackets since June, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Commerce, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce kicked off a national campaign in June to reduce the number of people falling prey to unlicensed job agents.

The campaign was launched after police received "76 complaints from laborers who were sent abroad with promises of jobs but learnt only once they landed in an alien country that the promises were false".