Telangana Cops Rescue Two Indians Forced To Work For Chinese Cyber Scammers From Cambodia

shankhyaneel sarkar shankhyaneel sarkar | 04-28 16:00

The Rajanna Sircilla district police in Telangana rescued two Indians who were forced into working for cyber scammers this week. The two Indians were forced into working for a job racket involving a Chinese company and it was busted by Cambodian police after an alert by Rajanna Sircilla district police, according to a report by the Times of India.

The police further added that the two techies are being brought back to Telangana. They said that fraudsters sent a graduate from Sircilla district and another youth from Jagtial was sent to Cambodia three months ago by the fraudsters to work in a Chinese firm. The graduate from Sircilla was sent to Sihanoukville, a coastal city in Cambodia, three months ago.

Two Indians were also arrested by Telangana police in connection with the job racket. A person from Jagtial, who also worked as a chef in Maldives, and his friend from Pune were also arrested. Two other people, one from Lucknow and the other from Dubai, are still at large.

The person from Dubai, named Shadaab, who remains at large, along with the man arrested from Pune, Abid Ansari, were operating the racket by sending youngsters to Cambodia through Shadaab’s contacts. Shadaab had links with Chinese nationals in Cambodia.

Shiva, one of the rescued, was sent to Cambodia by Prasad, the chef who worked in Maldives. Prasad told him that his nature of work would be “software operations” but upon reaching there he found that he had to work for 16 hours a day and commit cyber fraud on Indians.

A report by The Hindu said that 50% of cyber-crime complaints received on the national cyber crime helpline originate from China, pockets of Cambodia and Myanmar, citing Rajesh Kumar, chief executive officer of Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) of the Union ministry of home affairs.

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