The Indian Foreign Ministry announced Monday that 283 Indian nationals rescued from enslavement by cybercrime rings in Southeast Asia have been brought home from Thailand by the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The United Nations published an alarming report in August 2023 about criminal gangs using fake job ads to lure people from India, China, and Indonesia, into camps where they were enslaved as email and telephone scammers.
The scam centers, scattered across Southeast Asia but heavily concentrated in the Thailand-Myanmar border region, forced their prisoners to work in rackets such as crypto fraud, illegal online gambling, and online dating swindles. The gangs found it easy to lure eager young job seekers with attractive tech-sector job offers, then lock them up in sweatshops surrounded by barbed-wire fences
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