A 70-year-old Hong Kong gang member was sentenced to one year in prison for forcing two Thai women into prostitution after they were trafficked to the city on job scams in 2023. The women were rescued after alerting the Thai consulate.
Indian authorities rescued 453 Nepalese youths from a cross-border job scam in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district. Victims were lured with promises of lucrative jobs abroad, sold assets, and subjected to financial exploitation and confinement.
A man in Shanghai has been sentenced for orchestrating a fake job scheme where 14 individuals worked at metro stations for months without pay, only to discover they were on a sham payroll. He was convicted of fraud.
Police arrested 35 Chinese nationals in Gelang Patah for operating a scam using AI and language templates. Suspects lured victims with fake high-paying jobs, requiring them to buy expensive packages before defrauding them.
A 25-year-old Hong Kong woman was cheated out of more than HK$2.25 million (US$287,190) over one month after responding to a part-time job posting offering HK$90 an hour. The victim, who had quit her university research assistant job due to health issues, was tricked into signing documents for a fake lawyer assisting a mainland financier, taken to three loan companies in one day, and asked to open virtual bank accounts to transfer money to scammers.
