Tamil Nadu’s cybercrime police have cautioned the public not to fall for con artists promising lucrative overseas job opportunities.
The cybercrime police in Tamil Nadu have issued a warning to the public not to fall for scammers offering bright job prospects abroad. Victims were compelled to labor as cyberslaves and participate in digital fraud, such as dating, investing, and courier fraud, after being drawn to foreign nations with the promise of employment. According to data from the NCRP portal, between January 2024 and April 2024, at least 400 complainants reported being the victims of digital fraud.
Furthermore, between January 2022 and November 2023, a minimum of 39,735 Indian nationals—among them 1,285 from Tamil Nadu—traveled abroad on tourist visas to places including Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos and did not come back. According to a cybercrime authority, people looking for work abroad are frequently tricked by dishonest brokers who lure them in with enticing job offers and plan their travel on tourist visas.
These victims are forced to engage in cyberfraudulent activities after they arrive in order to survive. Via shady labor recruitment firms, these well-organized cybercrime syndicates, which are mostly situated in Southeast Asian countries, hire Indian job seekers. The agencies deceive victims by offering jobs connected to software, phone centers, and data input. When the victims reach the nations where the positions are allegedly
In order for the victims to be allowed to return to India, they must also pay large sums of money in yuan, or Chinese currency. According to a cybercrime officer, numerous workers from places like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Haryana, and Delhi were enticed.
Job seekers should always confirm the validity of manpower recruiting agencies by looking up their registration status on the Indian emigration portal, which can be found at https://emigrate.gov.in/#/emigrate/emigrant/list-of-ra-consolidated-report, in order to guard against falling victim to such frauds.
The list of unregistered or illegal agencies available at https://emigrate.gov.in/#/emigrate/recruiting-agent/list-of-unregistered-ra-agencies-or-agents can also be used to identify fraudulent recruitment agencies.
Before moving forward, it is imperative to carefully check employment postings and organizations several times, as tempting job offers are frequently used to trick unsuspecting people into falling into traps. Never go abroad on a tourist visa in search of a job, as there are unofficial agencies that promise to set up work permits for you once you are there.
But once in the destination nation, passports and visas are frequently seized, forcing victims to commit online fraud. When a phone number is suspected of being fraudulent, people can use the https://cybersafe.gov.in/ cyber safe portal to check its history and find out if it has been used in any fraudulent transactions. By providing all the details required to help stop additional crimes, suspicious fraudulent communications can also be filed on the Chakshu site at https://sancharsaathi.gov.in/sfc/Home/sfc-complaint.jsp.
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