If you thought after the fall of Destiny or Jubok that people would have learned their lessons about financial scams, you better think again. After a generation got scammed in the analogue world, today people are being scammed digitally.
Getting scammed not just results in people losing their hard-earned money, but it can often be very embarrassing, which is why a lot of people don’t even report such scams before it’s too late.
I have met many deceived people who refuse to open up about how they lost their money. Why? Because the scams, when exposed, turn out to be very attractive to fall for. As a result, the ‘non-scammed’ often make fun of the gullibility of the scammed. Those scammed are even termed ‘greedy’ for wanting to make such easy money.
So even after you lose a large amount of your fortune, you will get little sympathy from the public. Getting back your money through government interference is also a long, arduous process.
A few months ago, during investigating a so-called ‘e-commerce’ platform called Jeka Bazar in Rajbari district, a concerned government official revealed his annoyance to this reporter about people who fall for a trap like making money by watching ads. “It is obvious that you cannot make money like this. Do you get paid for watching an advertisement on television?” the official asked.
According to some of the victims scammed by Jeka Bazar, after the media coverage and government interference, the scammers have changed their name and…
