Job seeker swindled

Job seeker swindled

From Neraca

Beware of the fellow who duped me into giving him money for
the promise of a job. He goes from one restaurant to another in
the area of Tebet, South Jakarta, offering job openings to the
unsuspecting.

An outwardly sympathetic fellow, he introduced himself as BK
to me at a canteen one day and easily led me into a conversation
in which I told him I had an unemployed son. He told me that he
might be able to get my son a job at the company where he was
employed. All I needed to do was to prepare the usual formal
application letter and give him Rp 300,000 in cash to be used as
a bribe to the person in charge of hiring.

On the appointed day, not long afterward, he took me to an
office in the Gatot Subroto area. He told me to wait in front of
the building while he went in to submit the application letter
and the money "to the manager".

I waited for his return in vain. As time past, I became
suspicious I asked the office security guard about him. The guard
said no man named BK has ever been employed at that office.

Sure I had been duped, I immediately checked the home address
he gave me, Jl. Sarmili RT 010/04 No.21 Lenteng Agung, South
Jakarta. When I arrived there the house was empty.

BAHRUN

Depok, Bogor

West Java