Syed Shemul Parvez :
A new technique of cheating people by digital currency has become very common on the social media.
The streamkar app is a trap for bringing university’s beautiful girls on live programme.
Many people buy online currency falling in trap and give it as a gift to young women. The fraudsters later buy the currency from Streamkar admins and sell it to chatters.
According to police sources, hundreds of crores of Taka are being smuggled in this process every month from the country.
It is learned that Streamkar is a live video streaming social Application and make friends. It allows people to live stream their special moments.
Users normally use this streamkar app to chat with beautiful girls and celebrities.
Beautiful girls and celebrities first open the host ID of this app through a scam called Host Agency. Then those who come to chat with these young girls have to buy a kind of digital currency called Bins from the host agency and finally give it as a gift to the girls.
And as soon as this digital currency goes to the Beans hosts, it is converted into a digital currency named James. And one lakh James is worth Tk 600, sources added.
Mahiduzzaman, Superintendent of Police of the Anti-Terrorism Unit, said in a press briefing that though the use of streamkar is officially banned in Bangladesh, people are using these through virtual private networks.
Basically people are chatting through this app. Besides, the gambling option is also exist here.
Beautiful girls are paid a certain amount of money every month to stay live. Users are also deceived by bringing live streaming in a tempting trap.
Police said there are about 12 to 15 such agents in Bangladesh who are smuggling around crores of Taka abroad every month.
Mohammad Aslam, another Superintendent of the unit, said some of the most beautiful young girls in the country were contracted on a monthly salary for conversations with the targeted person through specific apps from their own position.
According to police, they have information about money laundering outside the country through several public, private and international banks. According to their idea, the cycle users of Streamkar app have smuggled around hundreds of crores of Taka out of the country.
Recently, the Anti-Terrorism Unit of the police arrested four people involved in digital fraud from different parts of the country.
