After Cambodia crypto scam, Indians demand more jobs at home

Unemployed youths fill application forms to access job openings in the private sector outside an ‘employment van’ during an initiative by TMI foundation and Hyderabad city police, in Hyderabad on Aug 25, 2021. Facing unemployment and desperate for decent jobs, some Indians are being duped by trafficking scams advertised on social media. — AFP

GOLANTHARA, India: Starved and locked in a room under round–the–clock video surveillance, Dinabandhu Sahu spent sleepless nights wondering if he would ever again see his family back home in India after he was duped into a job scam in Cambodia.

Sahu jumped at the chance to earn US$900 (RM4,214) a month in Vietnam as a data entry operator with free meals and accommodation last June after working a string of short–lived jobs in similar fields which paid a fraction of the wage he was promised abroad.