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3000 Indians Stuck As Slaves In Cambodia, Women Being Forced To Make Nude Call Back Home
A man, rescued from the terrifying nexus of the Chinese scammers in Cambodia said that around 3000 Indians have slaved there and they are made to be a part of their fraud schemes.
Written by: Ajay Kumar
Updated Jul 9, 2024, 14:54 IST
Man's harrowing experience in Cambodia after being scammed by cyber frauds.
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Hyderabad: Around 3000 Indians are stuck in Cambodia after they were trafficked there and now are being made to honey-trap people by making nude calls to them in India. One of the victims, Telangana-resident Munshi Prakash, a BTech graduate in civil engineering, had been working with an IT firm in Hyderabad. Like many others, he had also posted his profile on job sites seeking employment abroad.
The man, a native of Mahabubabad's Bayyaram Mandal, shared his traumatising experience and said, "One Vijay, an agent in Cambodia, called me and offered me a job in Australia. He said I needed travel history before going to Australia and gave me tickets for Malaysia," as per a Times of India report.
"From Kuala Lumpur, I was taken to Phnom Penh on March 12. A local representative of Vijay collected US dollars worth Rs 85,000 from me. Then, Chinese nationals seized my passport and took me to Krong Bavet. It's a large compound with towers. I was put in Tower C, with other Indians. We were given ten days of training to create and use fake social media profiles of girls in Telugu and other languages," he said.
He was then put in a dark room for a week and tortured. "When I fell sick, they took me out but forced me to continue scamming. I managed to record a selfie video, narrating my traumatic experiences. I sent an email to my sister in Tamil Nadu, who informed the authorities," Prakash was quoted as saying.
After the matter came into notice of the agencies, Prakash was rescued by the efforts of Indian embassy there and Telangana and Andhra Pradesh governments.
What Prakash Told About This Scam In Cambodia
Prakash said that he was previously rescued from traffickers by Cambodian police on April 16 but was arrested on a fake charge, put on him by the Chinese gang. He reportedly spent 12 days in jail. "After the authorities found out that the charge was fake, I was deported to Delhi on July 5," he added said. TOI stated that nine more persons were rescued with him.
He also made a huge claim that 3,000 Indians, many of them from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, are trapped in Cambodia and these include girls who are forced to make nude calls from their detention camps. Prakash said he met people from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Mumbai and Delhi and all of them were scammed on pretext of jobs abroad.
As per the report, the money the gang gets from these activities is converted into cryptocurrency, then into US dollars, and finally into Chinese Yuan.
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