A 29-year-old Free State man who left South Africa in high spirits after he was offered a job to work as customer screening specialist in Thailand, is now stuck in Cambodia as the job turned out to be a scam.
Xolani Sidwell Fongo, an unemployed university drop out, said he received an email in October 2022 from a man who identified himself as John Thomas, claiming to be a recruiter for Huilong Technology, a Chinese marketing company supposedly based in Thailand.
The job offer in itself was not alarming to Fongo as he is well versed in Mandarin, one of the most spoken languages in China.
