IPOH: Seamstress Vong Foong Thai is pleading for help to get her son, who has been forced to be a scammer in Manila, home. Vong, 61, said her 28-year-old son Choong Chin Yee was tricked into working as a scammer in Manila since November last year. “He managed to escape from a heavily-guarded compound on Tuesday where he and hundreds of other people were being held. “He told me that he had tried to seek help at the Malaysian Embassy there but was turned away. Low said he would write to the Malaysian Embassy in Philippines about Choong’s predicament.

Source: The Star October 28, 2022 02:44 UTC