Monowar Babu, Ghoraghat (Dinajpur) Correspondent:
All the clothes are of gorgeous foreign designs, all the flashy advertisements on the online pages! Once you fall into the trap and order and pay in advance, you can't find them anymore. 56 students from the same school have fallen victim to such fraud.
Ghoraghat Municipality, Dinajpur R.C. Pilot A scam involving girls' high school students who were buying clothes online.
Fraudsters have entered the popular online shopping. Their main target is young women. They try to attract customers by downloading eye-catching images from famous brands or Google and posting them on their pages. On the main pages, they offer to sell the product at half the price of the clothing or even less. Advance payment is required at the time of order. As soon as the money is received, either the buyer is blocked or the buyer is given a low-quality product. Sometimes, when changes are made, it is not done.
It is learnt that 56 students of class 10 in that school placed an online order on the Facebook ID named lmanni Surahin Tuba to get the same dress on the occasion of the farewell ceremony of SSC examinees. The price of each peach dress is estimated at four hundred taka. At that time 01885-547801 The number was called and asked for advance money. The students gave all the money to that number in good faith through bKash. After receiving 22,400 taka, the students tried to contact the number, but the number stopped communicating. Later, the school's assistant teacher filed a general diary with Al-Mamun police station.
When the issue created a stir in the area, with the help of former mayor of the municipality and president of the municipal BNP, Abdus Sattar Milon, acting secretary Muktar Hossain, and the police station OC, 60 students of the establishment were given dresses of the same color.
The students who were cheated said, "Out of 60 of us in the same class, 56 were cheated into buying the same dress online. This made everyone upset. Later, we received new dresses as gifts. Otherwise, today's (Monday) farewell ceremony would have been a joyless one."
BNP Acting Secretary Muktar Hossain said, "The fraudsters have cheated the young students. I am very sorry to hear this. I feel very happy to be able to arrange their clothes later."
Former mayor and municipal BNP president Abdus Sattar Milon said, "I was very shocked after hearing the matter. Later, I talked to them and made arrangements for the farewell ceremony so that they could say goodbye to their elder sisters in new dresses."
Ghoraghat Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Nazmul Haque said, "We have received a complaint about fraud. The police are working to catch the fraudsters."
