Hundreds of Central Asians have been conned out of money by scammers posing as recruiters, middlemen, or representatives of foreign firms offering visas and lucrative jobs abroad.
In the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, authorities exposed a group of scammers who got their unsuspecting victims to pay nearly $50,000 for nonexistent jobs overseas, the Prosecutor-General’s press office reported in June.
It said the sc