Digital Goa, March 11 – A Goan engineering graduate, lured by a fake job offer on Instagram, is among 283 Indians rescued from cybercrime scam centers in Myanmar. Promised a Rs 60,000 per month call center job in Thailand, he was smuggled into Myanmar, confined as a cyberslave in a compound. He was forced to work 14-hour shifts in fraudulent schemes targeting US citizens.
The Indian government, with help from embassies in Myanmar and Thailand, facilitated the rescue. The Cyber Crime Police Station team is bringing the Goan youth home tonight. Incidentally, Goa NRI Commissioner Narendra Sawaikar had informed local media last month that 8 Goans have been stranded in Thailand after they were lured by the promise of lucrative jobs and that efforts were on to rescue them.
