Chinese app ‘E-Movie’ scams Bangladesh youth by fake movie tickets

Dhaka, Bangladesh: In Rajshahi, Hundreds of Thousands of people have been cheated by opening an account number with a minimum Taka of 2000 in the hope that they will receive dollars if they buy movie tickets on a Chinese app, as per V News.

Dhaka, Bangladesh: In Rajshahi, Hundreds of Thousands of people have been cheated by opening an account number with a minimum Taka of 2000 in the hope that they will receive dollars if they buy movie tickets on a Chinese app, as per V News.

According to the reports, after such incidents, the account balances of the Bangladeshi people became zero, and they got disheartened by the fraud committed by the Chinese app. The fraudsters opened an office at Siroil Colony in Rajshahi Nagar and got locked up after they were revealed carrying out these activities, reported V News.

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In addition, the reports have confirmed that the fraud was carried out through a Chinese movie booking app, ‘E-Movie,’ victims said in their statement. Additionally, the app in Rajshahi was promoted by a man named Manik from the Siroil Colony area of the city.

Furthermore, the rules of the app were to create an account number which has to be opened with a minimum of Taka 2,000 on the app, which was supposed to be used for buying movie tickets from different nations.

“The profits were immediately transferred to the number of the account holder after buying the tickets, but the money had to be converted into dollars to buy tickets, the money sent to a particular number through bkash or from other financial application, and get converted and get appear in the account number of the user,” said reports.

However, it was reported that the profits depend on the rate of the opening amount of the account number. Moreover, “if you open up an account number for another person, the dollar will be added to his own account number, which created a storm among the users and youth of the different regions of Rajshahi villages from the middle of last October.

The youth of Bangladesh get involved in the trend to become rich overnight without any hard work and efforts in the real world; they chose to open an account number with more money and entered the race to become popular people.”

The gathered money is ‘reimbursed’ through bkash or Nagad financial applications. Manik’s office declared a few days ago that this app in the Rajshahi region has already crossed the two-thousand-user mark. 

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