He said a preliminary investigation has revealed that the accused persons have fraudulently sent many people to Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries, where they are forcibly made to work at centres engaged in cyber-scamming Indians. The details of the persons who are into cyber slavery are being obtained and contacts are being established with them and their families, he added.Sharing more details, Additional DGP Cyber Crime Division V Neeraja said that police teams from State Cyber Crime conducted a raid at the office of Visa Palace immigration and arrested both the accused persons. She said that the accused have further revealed that they were doing illegal activities in connivance with other agents belonging to different states. Further investigation is being conducted to identify other such travel agents and their accomplices to nab them, she said.The Indian embassies in Cambodia, Yagon and Vietnam have issued advisories in this regard and also given a list of around twenty such agents mainly operating from Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and other places and another list of 13 agents operating from foreign countries, mainly from Dubai.”Advisory on overseas jobs in Laos, Cambodia and the Southeast Asian Region has been issued by the Embassy of India, Cambodia and Embassy of India, Laos, advising citizens that many fake agents are operating in the Southeast Asian region who, along with agents based in India, are luring people with lucrative data entry jobs but are made to scam companies and carry out cyber crimes in India. It is therefore advised that overseas employment opportunities be sought only through the registered recruiting agents, registered by Ministry of External Affairs under the Emigration Act, 1983. Also, if any of the family members of the persons who are being exploited in the hands of foreign employers based in Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar may report the matter to the Protector of Emigrants, Chandigarh,’’ said Yashu Deep Singh Protector of Migrants, Chandigarh.
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