Home Minister, Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said subsequently, their family members or parents would lodge a missing person''s report or seek help to locate them abroad.

The root cause is the tendency to be easily manipulated into believing the social media campaigns where they are offered lucrative income, comfortable accommodation, paid plane fares and all kinds of things when working abroad.

“And when they get there, things are not as promised. Only a few are able to contact the police,” he told Bernama.

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