Police have arrested two people in Narail on charges of online fraud through Facebook accounts opened under various names, including ‘Baby Bike Shop BD’ and ‘Egyptian Chicken Sale Bazar’, using misleadingly attractive advertisements to lure customers.
The arrestees are Mortaza, 27, son of Obaidullah of Pateshwari Dakshinpara in Kalia upazila of Narail, and Limon Molla, 27, a bKash agent and son of Kamal Molla of Narayanpur village in the same upazila.
Narail District Detective Branch (DB) Police Officer-in-Charge Md Alauddin disclosed the information at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.
Members of the district DB police and the Cyber Crime Investigation Unit arrested them during raids in different areas around 2:30am on Wednesday.
Police also seized three mobile phones allegedly used in the fraud and Tk 82,810 believed to have been obtained through the scheme.
According to DB police OC Alauddin, the suspects initially admitted to carrying out online fraud for nearly two years through attractive advertisements posted under the names ‘Baby Bike Shop BD’, ‘Baby Bike’, ‘Kolom Packaging Chakrir Dak 2.0’, ‘Egyptian Chicken Sale Bazar 2.0’ and ‘Kombol.bd’.
The group allegedly opened Facebook pages and used enticing advertisements to promise products at low prices, collecting money from customers without delivering the promised goods.