Hemstar Combat: This Is How The Web Of Cryptocurrency Scams Is Flourishing In Nepal In the last few days, you must have seen someone open Telegram on their phone and tap on it. Or maybe you joined Telegram by watching YouTube and TikTok videos and joined the ‘Tap Tap’ campaign.
If you do a search on Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube on how to earn money at home, you can see that most of them are talking about ‘Hemstar Combat.’ It is claimed that you can earn thousands to millions of rupees daily just by tapping on such videos on the Telegram channel.
Some Nepali YouTubers have created a Telegram channel and are widely promoting it on YouTube. So what is Hemstar Combat? And is it really possible to earn thousands of rupees daily just by tapping? Is it illegal in Nepal or not? Today, we are discussing this in detail. Before that, if you are told a small tip, ‘You can earn from Telegram,’ you may suspect that it is somehow related to fraud. There is a high possibility that others will be cheated by you or you will be cheated by others.
What is Hemstar Combat?
Hemstar Combat is a Telegram bot. It is said to be released around March 2024. Within a short time of its publication, it reached more than 150 million users. It has a bot account on Telegram. According to the bot account, it has more than 95.9 million active users per month.
If the bot is asked how to earn, the first thing that comes up is an automatic reply. Where you are said to be the director of a crypto exchange. If you select the ‘Play in One Click’ option, you can see that you can collect coins. There is an important message at the end of that message. It reads, “The date when collected coins can be exchanged is coming soon.” And finally, it is said that you can collect coins together by adding friends. That is, the more friends you add, the more coins you can collect.
It can be seen that various schemes have been introduced to entice the users. In this way, after millions of users have been added in a short time, the government offices of most countries are keeping an eye on it.
Telegram is more famous in Russia, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. It is said that most of the users of these countries are connected to this bot. The government agencies there have advised the common people of their country not to use the platform. Three countries have given various reasons for users to stay away from this bot.
On the other hand, Uzbekistan was told that the users of their country will exit from this platform within 15 days, and if they do not exit, they will be fined.
Ukraine said that since this platform is connected to Russia, there will be many risks, and it warned its citizens to stay away from Hemstar Combat.
Who has operated Hemstar Combat?
Hemstar Combat has a bot account on Telegram. It currently has more than 96 million followers. Its YouTube channel, which was opened in June, has more than 37.2 million subscribers. Similarly, X, which was opened in March 2024, has more than 13 million followers on this platform. There is no mention of where, how, and who operated this platform.
It was revealed that this platform was registered by the RU-Center Group in the investigation conducted by the Ukrainian media. Like Nepal’s Mercantile, it is Russia’s largest domain and hosting provider. According to Russia’s unbiased media, The Bell, one of the co-founders of this platform is Russian entrepreneur Edgard Gurinovich.
What are the possible risks? Will the Nepalese who join it get money?
In a general sense, what this platform means is that the coins that can be earned from it can then be exchanged from any crypto exchange platform. It is not clear what ‘later’ means. Earlier, a roadmap was kept on the website of Hemstar Combat, which shows what events will be held in which month. After July 2024, nothing has been revealed about the program in which month. In the next update, it is claimed that the gaming platform will be released, and the app will be made available on the Play Store.
According to analysts, the way this platform promises to earn millions in a short period is questionable. Users who do not know about this platform immediately reach different Telegram channels. This also seems to put the user’s data at risk.
Of course, while you are playing the game, the platform is doing crypto mining in the background by consuming the power of your phone. If it can be exchanged later, it does not seem that the user can easily exchange the amount. Because there were platforms like this before, the coin that the user had collected while exchanging money disappeared.
Now, let’s talk about Nepal. According to Nepal Rastra Bank, trading/using/mining any kind of cryptocurrency is illegal in Nepal.