A 20-year-old job seeker from Johor was abducted and made a slave by a scam syndicate in Myanmar last September, where he and 15 other Malaysians were kept in a prison-like facility and forced to eat rats, among others.

Speaking about his ordeal to the Malay daily Berita Harian, Mohamad Farhan Azman from Batu Pahat said he and four friends were lured by the syndicate with a lucrative job offer in Singapore.

They were initially promised jobs as hotel housekeeping staff in the island republic and travelled...