The news that Nepalis have reached Cambodia after falling into the trap of Chinese cyber scammers has already become public. But in recent times, Nepalis are getting trapped in Laos in similar incidents.
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Surendra Thakur of Siraha used to cut hair in a salon in Kathmandu. Suchit Kumar Yadav, known as Renu from Dhanusha, lured Thakur, who was studying for his bachelor's degree, to Laos and offered him a job that would earn him more than one lakh per month. Surendra, who was lured to Laos by paying 6 lakh rupees last February, is currently in trouble.
According to Thakur, he was ready to go after Suchit told him that he needed a computer typing worker for the hotel. But after reaching Laos, he found out that he has been trapped by cyber scammers. He was forced to use fake Facebook and other social networks with pictures of beautiful girls. And from that profile, rich people and people living in Europe, America and other countries were employed to trap fake conversations and launder money from them . He said, 'After I got there, I found out that my job is to get rich people into cyber scams.' After knowing that he was caught in such a job, Surendra thought of returning home. But the company man told him, we bought the floor for 4 lakhs. You can't go without paying that much money.
Surendra, having no skills, asked for money from home and returned home in March after paying four lakhs. At this time, Surendra is worried about how to collect the trapped money and how to repay the loan taken at that time. "After going abroad and earning money, I was thinking of coming to Nepal and doing commercial animal husbandry," said Thakur, "now I am worried about how to collect the interest on the loan."
According to Surendra, who returned to Nepal in the last week of March, there were 35 other people working in Nepal in the company run by the Chinese scammers he was working for. He said that he is forced to work because all the money has been lost. Surendra, who even filed a case with the Foreign Employment Department to see if the trapped money can be recovered, says, 'Don't bother anyone like this.'
Similar to Thakur but a different story, 22-year-old Vicky Baniyan of Sarlahi . After paying 5 lakh rupees to his sister's friend, he reached Laos on a visit visa. "After saying that I will earn one and a half lakh rupees a month, my parents also recommended me to go," said Baniyan, "Though I reached Laos three times, I was unable to work." According to Baniya, Rohni Yadav took five lakh rupees to send him abroad saying that he was responsible for the work even though he had a visit visa. Even after reaching Jaipur for the first time and Delhi for the second time, he could not fly to Laos . On the third attempt, he flew from Calcutta to Laos. But he flew on a visit visa and returned from Thailand in transit. He said, "There was a matter of bringing me to Laos via India and Thailand". But came back from the middle.
Both of these incidents indicate that organized human traffickers are trying to make Laos a new destination for smuggling, and in this case, Nepalis have started to repeat stories like when Nepalis reached Cambodia and fell into the trap of cyber scammers. . The Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau has rescued 15 people who were trapped by human traffickers and reached Laos in the last three years. Before Loos, organized human traffickers used to bring Nepalese people to Cambodia to engage in cyber scams. According to the bureau, 14 were rescued from Cambodia alone in the last three years. Information Officer of the Bureau Superintendent of Police Narendra Kunwar said that all those going to Laos and Cambodia Said to be in cyber scam .
