Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Cyber conmen are now increasingly targeting jobless youths along with housewives and students, luring them with the promise of quick money through online “work-from-home” or “task job” schemes.

Police say around two dozen such cases surfaced in Bhopal in last couple of years. Many such cases go unreported as victims lose smaller amounts and prefer to remain silent out of embarrassment.

In one such case, a 25-year-old homemaker from Kolar lost over Rs 11 lakh after getting trapped in a so-called “task job” fraud. The woman who earlier worked in a corporate firm was looking for online income opportunities when she came across a reel on Instagram offering an attractive work-from-home job. Clicking the link directed her to a fake website, and soon she was added to T

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