Bank account balance ZERO! Chinese app E-Movie cheats thousands of Bangladeshis
Hundreds of thousands of people have been cheated in Rajshahi by opening an account number with a minimum of Taka 2000 in the hope that they will get dollars if they buy movie tickets on a Chinese app, reported V News.
Their account balance has become zero and they are disoriented after discovering the fraud by the Chinese app.
An office was opened at Siroil Colony in Rajshahi Nagar to carry out these activities but the office has also been locked after the fraud was revealed, reported V News.
The victims reported that they were cheated using a Chinese app called E-Movie.
A man named Manik from Siroil Colony area of the city started promoting this app in Rajshahi, reported V News.
As per the rules, an account number has to be opened with a minimum of Tk 2,000 on the app. This money was to be used to buy movie tickets from different countries.
After buying the ticket, the profit was immediately transferred to the number of the account holder. But the money had to be converted into dollars to buy tickets, reported V News.
When money is sent to a specific number through bKash or other mobile financial applications, it is converted into dollars and appears in the user's account number. However, the more money one opens the account number, the higher the profit rate.
If you open another person's account number, the dollar will be added to your own account number. This app created a storm among the youth in different villages of Rajshahi from the middle of last October. In order to become rich overnight without doing any work, they opened account numbers with more money and entered the race to become big people, reported V News.
As per reports, one of the victims sold his motorcycle to open the account. Those who did it early took the
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