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Indian Embassy in this Gulf country issues warning over travel fraud

Abu Dhabi: The  Indian Embassy in the UAE has issued a warning over travel fraud. The Indian diplomatic mission said that cyber frauds are using  a fake social media handle to cheat  Indian nationals in the country.

The mission has said that fraudsters are using the @embassy_help (Twitter) and ind_embassy.mea.gov@protonmail.com to defraud Indian citizens.  The cyber frauds commit the fraud by sending messages and collecting money to arrange expats’ travel from the UAE to India.

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‘All Indian nationals are hereby informed that Embassy of India, Abu Dhabi, has no affiliation whatsoever with the twitter handle @embassy_help and email ID ind_embassy.mea.gov@protonmail.com. It is advised to cross-check particulars of e-mail IDs and social media accounts of the embassy from our website to avoid falling into the trap of unscrupulous elements. Kindly note that email IDs of all Indian Missions/Posts always end with domain @mea.gov.in,’ the Indian Embassy said in a statement.

The embassy said that all official email IDs, Twitter handle, Facebook ID and telephone numbers are mentioned on its official website. The official Twitter handle of the Embassy is @IndembAbuDhabi.

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