About 20 members of the Yakama Nation of Washington are stranded in Alabama after being lured by the promise of high-paying Gulf Coast jobs.

The group drove to the gulf after a man named Christino Rosado came to the reservation and promised $40 an hour to help clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. But the jobs never materialized and the tribal members are stuck.

"We don't know what really to do right now -- some want to go home, some don't. Some still believe (the jobs will come through)," a 19-year-old tribal member, who didn't want to be identified, told The Yakima Herald-Republic.

Tribal leaders sent out an alert after learning about the apparent scam. The FBI is reportedly looking into the situation.

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Would-be cleanup workers stranded on Gulf Coast (The Yakima Herald-Republic 6/29)

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