Moroccan Woman Jailed for Job Scam Targeting Aspiring Migrants

13 January 2020 – byBladi.net · 1 min read

A 40-year-old woman was sentenced to eight months in prison with a fine of 2,000 dirhams by the correctional chamber near the court of first instance of Meknes. The defendant is accused of having promised two young people to help them find jobs in agricultural fields in France, which ultimately turned out to be a real scam.

A sweet promise based on pure scam. This is the plot of the entire staging unfolded by this mother of a family, who was arrested following two complaints filed against her by two young men, reports Aujourd’hui le Maroc.

To these two individuals, who only dreamed of emigrating to Europe, this mother of three children said she was able to have them recruited with a proper employment contract. In return, the two young men had to pay her the sum of 80,000 dirhams.

In the process, she obtains the payment of a deposit of 25,000 dirhams as an advance allowing her to undertake the necessary administrative procedures. However, she will not be able to recover the remaining 55,000 dirhams that should have been paid to her as soon as the employment contracts were ready. Contracts that the two young men will never see with their own eyes, after six months of waiting. It is then that they realize the scam and decide to file a complaint, specifies the same source.

Category: Morocco

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Meknes Scam