Jumbangla Desk: 'I want a pot for a girl back in Germany. He owns a two-storey house and three bighas of land. Insana Ruhi. Age 29 years. Divorce. There is a coffee shop. Brahmanbaria is the village house. If you find a good man in any district, you will marry him and take him abroad. Mobile number and address can be collected by clicking on the link given in the Facebook comment.

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But if you click on the link it takes you to foreign currency (forex) or cryptocurrency trading and various online gambling sites. Sometimes it takes you to a website, where there are many pictures of beautiful girls. If you click on the button that says make a video call with a picture, it will take you to the gambling site. The 'honeytrap' that is constantly being given on Facebook to attract Bangladeshis to gambling.

Dozens of posts were found by searching on Facebook by typing 'Patri Chai'. Each post uses a picture of a beautiful girl. In most cases the details are the same, only the age has changed in some places, the amount of land of the bride in some places, and the picture in some places. One picture shows the bride sometimes returning to Germany, sometimes returning to Italy, sometimes returning to London. And if you click on the links, it takes you to gambling sites like Krikia, Jeetbaaz, Babu88, Baji, Six6BD, Six6SBDT online. At the beginning of this year, the government informed that at least 5 million people in the country are addicted to online gambling.

Meanwhile, online verification and media research platform Dismisslab searched and found 430 posts on various Facebook pages from last July saying 'I want a pot for an expatriate bride'. Of these, 397, or 92 percent, lead to gambling or foreign currency trading sites. The number of shares of the posts is also incredible. Not only Facebook, gambling ads are suddenly appearing when you watch a video on YouTube. In these ads, Bangladeshi news anchor Deepti Chowdhury, Indian internet personality Aishwarya Ruparel, Pakistani model and influencer Malaika Batul, Bangladeshi cricketer Sabiq Al Hasan and many other celebrities were seen creating AI videos and promoting gambling.

Shakib Al Hasan has been seen in the most gambling ads on YouTube over the years. In those videos made using AI technology, Shakib can be heard saying that he is earning lakhs of rupees by betting. Enticing bonus offers of up to 42,000 taka are also being offered for signing up as a new gambler. Similarly, gambling advertisements are running on various public and private websites. DismissLab's research in the first half of this year found more than 3,000 betting webpages on 11 government websites.

The investigation found that the spread of gambling in Bangladesh has taken a terrible form. Millions of rupees are being bet by sitting in the neighborhood tea shop. Apart from betting on various games on betting sites, many people are losing money by playing various games including Ludu online. Most of them are young in age. Everyone from the young to the old is playing online gambling in the neighborhood. From the poor rickshaw puller to the rich pimp, no one is exempt from this addiction. There are allegations that a huge amount of money is being laundered from the country through these online gambling.

Technologists say that there is very little chance of profiting from playing games or gambling online. In most cases these are fraudulent websites. After a certain period of time, the site is closed due to money laundering. Then a new site was opened with a new name. Painter Habib from Khilkhet area of ​​the capital. He memorized the names of most of the football clubs in the world. You can tell the names of the unfamous footballers on the sidebench of any club.

He is now the Wikipedia of the sports world, betting on football and cricket matches in different parts of the world every day. Not only Habib, most of the rickshaw pullers and tea shopkeepers of the area also keep track of all the games. Millions of rupees are bet while sitting in the tea shops. Apart from gambling, the youth, most of whom are students, are playing various online games including Ludu for money. For this, various apps are installed on their mobiles. Last Monday, after talking to four young men engrossed in mobile phones behind a tea shop in Bhatara area, it was learned that they were playing an online game called Lud BD. It has to be played by buying coins with money. Seeing a video on YouTube created a dream in them. They are dreaming of earning at least 5000 taka per day by playing Ludu here.

According to Gaming, Sports and Gambling website Playtude, affiliates or promoters earn commissions ranging from $50 to $400 per player for bringing players to online casinos. In many cases, these affiliates receive a commission of up to 90 percent of the money spent by the players they bring.

Jaidev Kumar Mridha, head of the IT infrastructure department of a private bank, told Bangladesh Pratidin that an account has to be made with an e-mail on these gambling sites or gaming sites. MFS or credit cards are used for money transactions for games. This puts the credit card at risk. Apart from this, these sites are mainly operated from Singapore, Dubai and Philippines. In most cases these sites are not profitable. The money goes abroad. Apart from this, the risk of hacking various passwords while logging in to these sites is high.