Woes of our job seekers

Some recruiting agency officials are allegedly swindling overseas job seekers of enormous sums of money through sending digitised fingerprints of job aspirants giving them a false impression that their jobs have been finalised. This relates to Malaysia. No less than officials at Bangladesh Association of Recruiting Agencies (BAIRA) have said that between 30 and 40 thousand job seekers have already been cheated in this way.
Under the present system a Malaysian employer first issues a specific number of Demand Letters to BAIRA, and the Bureau of Manpower Export and Training (BMET), government's regulatory wing of the Expatriates' Welfare Ministry. Swindling takes place when unscrupulous officials of recruiting agencies send digitised fingerprints of job aspirants to concerned employer overseas over and above the specific number of actual demand letters received. Normally, these extra digitised fingerprints are sent out through bribing specialised computer operators against which visas are never issued.
We understand that in recent times some measures have been taken by the government with a view to redressing the grievances of some workers following some specific incidents centring around Bangladeshi job seekers' agitation on Bangladesh High Commission premises in October. Some 400 aggrieved workers have been reinstated in Kuala Lumpur while the fate of 367 remains uncertain.
Overseas remittances by expatriate workers have long been the principal foreign exchange earner of the country. It is thus unfortunate that these people who come from a comparatively poorer background, mostly from the rural areas of the country, continue to be cheated by some so-called manpower business organisations and their associates year after year turning them into virtual paupers. Admittedly, however, fault may also lie with recruiting agencies/companies in countries overseas, but that should not deter us from putting our house in order.
The authorities should go into the digitisation deception and take appropriate steps so that it doesn't recur.