The Centre on Thursday told Parliament that it has taken cognisance of a surge in fake overseas job rackets run by dubious firms targeting Indian nationals through social media. These deceptive schemes have trapped thousands of Indians in Cambodia, Myanmar and Lao PDR, with government data confirming that more than 6,700 of them have been rescued so far.

Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh detailed the extent of the issue in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha . “It has come to the notice of the government instances of dubious firms involved in fake recruitment job offers having lured Indian nationals mostly through social media channels to South-East Asian countries including Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR and made them to carry out cyber crime and other fraudulen

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