BEIJING, Aug 16 Reuters A Chinese mother went on television to seek justice for her 19yearold intellectually disabled son after scammers tricked the desperate jobseeker into having breast augmentation surgery, in an incident that has sparked widespread outrage.

The teenager hoping for a job at a cosmetic surgery clinic in the central city of Wuhan was told the procedure would help him earn money, by winning followers through livestreaming.

The clinic even convinced him to borrow 30,000 yuan 4,180 to pay for the surgery, his mother told a television station last week.

For the sake of money, one can give up one39;s humanity, said one of more than 2,600 comments on China39;s Weibo social media platform where posts on the boy39;s plight have drawn more than 27 million views.

Worse than beasts! said another.

The mother managed to get the loan cancelled, with the help of the TV station and lawyers, but the breast surgery had already been done.

Scams such as recruitment for nonexistent jobs, false advertising and loan traps are growing in China as the economy falters, with the top legal prosecuting agency saying last year that crooks were targeting more students and fresh graduates.

A record 11.79 million students graduated this summer, as the world39;s secondlargest economy grapples with one crisis after another, from a trade war and the aftermath of COVID19 to a prolonged property crisis and cautious consumer spending.

A job crisis among the young could test the…