DOT Desk: An organised gang has swindled families and relatives of Bangladeshi expatriates living in different countries out of huge money after hacking their social media accounts, including imo, reports Daily Sun.
The revelation came after the arrest of the ringleader of the racket and its three members. After hacking the social media accounts, the gangsters send voice messages by copying the voices of the targeted expatriates to their families and ask for money, showing different grounds, including serious illness.
Believing the voice messages, the families provide money through mobile money transfer windows provided by the scammers. Suriya Akhter of Hazaribagh in the capital received an imo voice message from her expatriate brother Samsul Haque living in Kuwait around 10:30pm on August 26, 2022, reading, “I’m ill. I have now been admitted to hospital. I need huge money for treatment.”
Just after few moments, a text message with two bKash and Nagad numbers was sent and the family members were asked to send money through the numbers. Samsul’s unsuspected father sent Tk 5.76 lakh through the numbers from August 26 to August 28. During the time, the family members could not contact the expatriate. The family could realise that they had been cheated only after Samsul called them two days later, saying he was not ill at all and did not send any message.