Speaking to Prothom Alo on Thursday, DB’s Lalbagh division deputy commissioner Mashiur Rahman said Indian scammers are posing as female officers, school teachers and university students to trap doctors, engineers, government officials and businessmen. . Indian citizens are proficient in Hindi and English. They make phone calls and make videos while Bangladeshi nationals, who are gang members, collect money through MFS by threatening the victims. They transfer money to Indian gang members through illegal means (hundi).
People associated with the investigation told Prothom Alo that fraudsters from India’s Chennai, Madras, Rajasthan, Delhi and Bihar are targeting top executives and rich businessmen by using women’s photographs in Facebook profiles and WhatsApp. Don’t talk when scammers call; Rather, they play obscene videos so skillfully that it seems as if a conversation is going on from both sides.
According to information collected by the DB, two government officials, a pediatrician from a medical college, an engineer, a readymade garment factory owner, the mayor of Paurshwa in the Northern Territory and university students have been victims of the crime. The fraudsters extorted money from them ranging from 50,000 taka to several lakh rupees.