190 Thai workers tricked by dodgy job agencies

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190 Thai workers tricked by dodgy job agencies

BANGKOK, 22 January 2015 (NNT)-The Department of Employment has revealed that nearly 200 Thai workers never gained overseas employments via illegal job agencies in the past 3 months.

DOE Director-General Sumet Mahosot said that a total of 190 people have fallen victims to dodgy job agencies. Many of them never made it out of Thailand while those who did could not enter the host country. Some were even left by themselves when they arrived.

According to him, the total amount of money they spent on the job agencies during the past three month was well worth over 9 million baht. Following the arrest of Thai women working at a massage parlor in Malaysia, he explained that they did not have work permits.

He urged those who want to work overseas to study their contract thoroughly. Most importantly, it must be verified by the Thailand Overseas Employment Agency or the Thai embassies in their respective countries of residence.


-- NNT 2015-01-22

[thequietman]

Good.

It will give them a taste of what we go through with their dodgy job agencies, most notably teaching agencies. Rub it up yeeeees.

[LuckyLew]

I guess these 190 people have "discovered Thainess"

I we cannot scam a foreigner we will then scam our own

[Thai at Heart]

Techincally Malaysia isn't overseas...

[mikeinbangkok]

It's up to the people who make the choice to work wherever, due to the need for jobs and income. Often in US Mexicans are scammed by landowners and there was a similar story in Australia also recently. In life you make choices. If Thailand is undesirable it's best to find places that are desirable, leaving the hundreds of thousands of happy expatriates who enjoy the comforts and hospitality to continue to earn and live in this country.

[Sviss Geez]

Good.

It will give them a taste of what we go through with their dodgy job agencies, most notably teaching agencies. Rub it up yeeeees.

You're not bright enough to be able to suss out a dodgy teaching agency yet you think you're bright enough to teach?

[bangon04]

Actually they have a long way to go to catch up with the major industry in the Philippines, which is expert in scamming hopeful overseas workers with false offers or related ripoffs. Can't wait for ASEAN to get a grip...

[berybert]

Stupid is as stupid does.

[Nemesis7]

Nothing new really, it's happening for quiet so,eating but still greed makes them lose

[ezzra]

yesterday here was an article in the very same forum lamenting Israel for short changing Thai

labor in Israel, and today this.... so I ask, why go as far as looking at other countries doing

wrong by Thai workers when you can the bigger problems right here at home whereby

Thai people have been cheating and gauging their own people for decades now...

[Lupatria]

I guess these 190 people have "discovered Thainess"

I we cannot scam a foreigner we will then scam our own

Shouldn't it read: 190 Thai workers tricked by dodgy Thai job agencies?

[Bluespunk]

It's up to the people who make the choice to work wherever, due to the need for jobs and income. Often in US Mexicans are scammed by landowners and there was a similar story in Australia also recently. In life you make choices. If Thailand is undesirable it's best to find places that are desirable, leaving the hundreds of thousands of happy expatriates who enjoy the comforts and hospitality to continue to earn and live in this country.

Oh dear a new version of the tired, old "if you don't like it leave" line in a story about people being scammed in their own country.

Lordy, lordy

Edited January 23, 2015 by Bluespunk

[Bluespunk]

"Some were even left by themselves when they arrived."

All alone?

Shocking.

[HeijoshinCool]

Good.

It will give them a taste of what we go through with their dodgy job agencies, most notably teaching agencies. Rub it up yeeeees.

.

Do you actually assert that the Thais who were taken advantage of are the same people, or even of the same ilk, as those who have cheated foreigners?

There are many Thais who are good natured, but not well educated. These could have been the ones who were defrauded here.

I see nothing to gloat about.

[maidee]

it is called human trafficking, but no thai could ever be involved, right