The city police have issued a warning to prospective employees about scams in which young people are promised positions in the data entry and IT sectors with the intention of forcing them into forced labour in different nations.
A Facebook post from Kochi police, using their official account, alerts locals to the dangers of falling for online slavery schemes.
Tens of thousands of Indians have been lured in by cybercriminals posing as job seekers in the data entry or IT industries, police stated in a post, only to have them arrested and used for cybercrimes.
According to the post, these people are constantly compelled to commit cybercrimes and are the targets of numerous sorts of harassment.
According to the police, these people are cut off from the outside world and aren’t even able to communicate with their relatives. They eventually become involved in foreign organized cybercrime. The Facebook post advised conducting a thorough investigation and confirming the veracity of any job offers before accepting them.
A resident of Parassala had returned two years earlier, having been kidnapped from Thailand and made to labour at KK Park, a scam den area south of Myawaddy in Myanmar.
He claims that in these kinds of locations, hundreds of innocent people are intimidated, subjected to abuse, and coerced into committing crimes online against their will.
He had claimed that they were handed computers with Facebook pages belonging to women on them and that they were forced to write about employment offers in Australia or New Zealand on these accounts. The youths were forced to gather information such as name, location, WhatsApp number, and other facts from anyone who commented on it and showed interest.
According to a source, many more Keralites have fallen victim to similar frauds overseas.
The victims reportedly had to labour for up to 17 hours, or even 24 hours, if they didn’t fulfill their goals. In addition to physical torture, the source claimed that they are forced to perform push-ups with weights on their backs, run rounds, and other exercises in these camps.
In the event that residents are approached by cybercriminals, police advised them to call the national helpline at 1930.
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