How Facebook accounts are being hacked by the temptation of double income while investing online 32-year-old Saroj Sharma (name changed) from Kathmandu is a teacher by profession. While looking for various ways to earn extra income, one day he found a link on Facebook where it was said that he would get twice as much money by investing online.
For this, he had to create an account using his Facebook ID on the website given there. He got excited after knowing the’solution’ to get a good income even with a small investment.
After creating an account, they were asked to deposit the amount into a bank account with a wallet ID and send the slip. Sharma also deposited Rs 10,000 on the website and uploaded the screenshot. Shortly after uploading the screenshot, it was seen that $10,000 was deposited in his account on the said website.
He could not collect the same amount at any time. It was said that he should increase the amount and invest. After seeing the increase in the amount on the investment website, Sharma also believed that money would come.
In the second phase, he collected Rs. 30,000. After that, the amount in his account was one lakh rupees. That is, when he invested 40,000, it was seen that 1 lakh was accumulated in his account.
Now that he had to withdraw the money, what was he trying to do to withdraw the money? He followed the procedure mentioned there, but the money did not appear in his account. He desperately tried to contact the customer care department of the website. However, information came from there that his Facebook account was hacked.
Then he tried to open Facebook. But it didn’t open. Although he tried to recover the account through the ‘forgot password’ option, the code did not come to his mobile phone or email. Even after doing this, he was sure that his account had been hacked when he could not login to it.
In the video, the victim had to say that she earned good money by clicking on this website. He said the same. But even after getting the video, customer care, i.e., the scammer, did not return the money, nor was the Facebook account recovered.
On the other hand, the scammer sent the same video to his other relatives and inspired them to invest in it. After seeing the video of a known person, relatives and friends believed. By clicking on the same link, other people also started getting cheated in the same way.
This is a very rare complaint,” he told Tekpana. “There have been no such scam complaints recently, but it is similar to other types of fraud.”
He suggested being aware of such risks as scammers use new methods to cheat. “Scammers identify common people’s personalities and commit online fraud accordingly,” he said, “so if someone asks for money by sending a message or video, it is appropriate to make a transaction only by calling or verifying in some other way.”