Opportunities to work as housekeepers in Singapore with a salary of over US$1,000 are among positions advertised online by self-proclaimed agents to lure Malaysians into becoming "scammers" based in KK Garden in Myawaddy, Myanmar.

Mohd Farhan Azman, 19, left his home in Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, to take up the offer in Singapore, which he eventually discovered did not exist.

Instead, Farhan was offered...