Police have arrested two people in Narail accused of cheating people online with attractive advertisements posted from Facebook accounts opened under various names.
Md Alauddin, officer-in-charge of the district Detective Branch (DB) of police, confirmed this at a press conference on Thursday afternoon (15 October).
The arrested are Mortoza, 27, son of Obaidullah of Pateshwari Dakshinpara in Kalia upazila of Narail, and Limon Mollah, 27, a bKash agent and son of Kamal Mollah of Narayanpur village in the same upazila.
Members of the district DB and the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit arrested them in raids in different areas at about 2:30am on Wednesday night, with the help of information technology. Three mobile phones allegedly used in the fraud and Tk 82,810 said to be its proceeds were seized from them.
OC Alauddin said it had been learned initially that they had been cheating people online for two years through attractive advertisements under names such as Baby Bike Shop BD, Baby Bike, Pen Packaging Job Call 2.0, Egyptian Chicken Sale Bazar 2.0 and Kombol.bd.
He said the ring opened Facebook pages and, with eye-catching advertisements promising goods at low prices, took buyers’ money. After a victim informed Narail Superintendent of Police Mohammad Al Mamun Shikder, a team from the district DB and the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit went after the ring. The two were sent to court after their arrest.
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