Just A Gigolo

Just a gigolo, everywhere I go
People know the part I'm playing
Paid for every dance
Selling each romance
Every night some heart betraying
There will come a day
Youth will pass away
Then what will they say about me
When the end comes I know
They'll say just a gigolo
As life goes on without me
(Leonello Casucci/Irving Caesar, Just a Gigolo)

A job opportunity for Malaysian men has turned out to be a scam. Men have gone into debt to local loan sharks to pay a deposit for an opportunity to become a gigolo. Only, when they go to meet their client, the women they approach try to slap them.

The New Straits Times said men had gone into debt with loan sharks in order to pay deposits to a recruitment agent who promised them a lucrative job as a male escort.

"He told me I could earn up to 10,000 dollars a month," said one man taken in by the scam who identified himself only as "Alan".

Alan paid the agent 1,000 ringgit (270 dollars) and shortly after was told to meet a client at a city hotel. He waited for hours until he spotted a Western women who seemed to be searching for someone.

"I thought she was my client so I approached her and introduced myself. To my surprise, instead of receiving words of welcome, I got cursed and insulted," he told the daily.

"After being humiliated in front of others, I just walked away and realised that this was not the sort of experience I was looking forward to," said Alan who reported the scam to the Malaysian Chinese Association's complaints bureau.

"I want people out there to know that there is no such thing as male escort services and to stay out of such a con."

Another victim, "Martin", said he had also waited for hours to see a nonexistent client in a hotel room, had to go into hiding after borrowing his 1,000 ringgit deposit from loan sharks who he was unable to repay.

"I worked out in a gym to make sure I looked good, and was strong for my clients. I even drank lots of essence of chicken," lamented Martin.

"I actually walked up to several foreigners and asked them if they were my clients. I was nearly slapped by two women."

How humiliating can you get? Here they thought they'd hit the veritable jackpot. Perhaps if they had watched this movie, they would have been a little more careful. As the tagline goes: "He's not very good looking. But when the lights go out…he's still not very good looking. "

Ahem, but Blue Crab Boulevard is proud to announce that for a small fee we can hook would be gigolos up with the Magic 8-Ball Employment Agency and Fish Tank Cleaning Service, Inc. Cash only, please.