Facebook scam

Recently my wife received a Facebook message from one of her friends to 'like' her picture in a profile photo competition. My wife went ahead, logged into that website and clicked 'like'. Later on, my wife received phone calls from some of her friends saying my wife was asking for money through Facebook. We found out her account was hacked. Then we started receiving more phone calls, especially from Bangladesh (we live in Australia now). One of our friends had already transferred Tk 20,000 to a bKash account.

                Later on, we managed to regain that account and when we logged in and went through the message history, we were surprised to see that the scammer used my wife's account to message her friends in Bangladesh through Facebook messenger. The scammer had requested one of my wife's close friends to bKash Tk 20,000 and promised that s/he will transfer the money into their bank account the next day. The chat seemed very casual which means anyone could fall into this trap. The scammer also sent the "like my profile pic" link to all of my wife's friends hoping to hack a few more accounts.

                I hope that The Daily Star will help our readers be aware of these sorts of scams. I also hope that BTRC will take action to stop this.