After entering the link with some information, purchasing the product and investing a small amount, they are charged 500 to 5000 taka. If the person can bring on five investors, a dividend is paid. Even if he brings investors later, he is not paid again.
Another tactic adopted by Chinese citizens to cheat is by opening websites similar to various reputable companies advertising earn money from home. Their another crime is taking money by spreading obscenity on online platforms like Likee and Vivo app.
In this case, they are targeting expatriate Bangladeshis in various countries. Five people, including Chinese national Yao Jie, were arrested in June last year for spreading obscene content through live videos on the Bigo app.
According to the investigating agency CID, evidence has been found that 1.08 billion taka were extorted from Bangladeshis by spreading obscene material through this app. In this incident Yao Ji, the managing director of Bigo Bangla, has been accused of smuggling 790 million taka from Bangladesh abroad.