Hello
I already made a few posts here in the past about this specific scam group trying to make people sign up on fake phishing links. They also sometimes beg for Discord Nitro subscriptions, or for PayPal money
Bengali discord scammer saying all indians are scammers 🤡 - Username : valentina_olivas,
Theory about tracing down those 🇧🇩 discord scammers, need external opinions,
IP address of Bengali scammer group (call-center ?) obtained, what to do
Me and my friends investigated them further for a while and we managed to gather a LOT of information about them.
We will expose this information below (except for the personal informations of the employees we have)
In any country with a solid rule of law, the information we have would clearly be enough to start an investigation, as we have absolutely everything, except the identity of the boss and the exact address. We have enough information to 100% identify some of the employees who are clearly working there
But our emails and messages to the Bengali police are falling on very deaf ears, this is why I am asking here for advice. I can provide any information needed that isn’t provided here
Informations on this scam
- How many scammers work there ?
Based on the amount of Discord accounts they have online simultaneously, the amount of different internal usernames we caught, we estimate that they have at least 50 scammers working in their company at the same time. The turnover rate seems quite high, every 2 weeks we see some new internal usernames pop up, and most of the worst scammers suddenly disappear, which might indicate that they’ve been fired and replaced.
Most of them work from home, around 10 of them work at the office. They have day shifts and night shifts.
- How do we know their names ?
In this company, the scammers don’t directly have access to their links, there’s some managers / senior scammers that makes the links for them.
Probably to have an easier organization & a better tracking of the scammer’s performances, the link makers often put the real first name of the scammer in the internal username of their link, and it’s visible on an attribute of their scam link (example :
In this case, the attribute is “DoyalG”, and this scammer freaked out when “Doyal” was mentioned, indicating that it’s probably his real name. We had dozens of such cases in the past months
Thanks to this method, we managed to get a bunch of first names (past and current employees) : Talora scammers names - Pastebin.com
- How do we know their location ?
The IP address obtained at the time pointed to an ISP “Talora Online” based in Talora, Bangladesh. When this city was mentioned to the scammers, most of them would freak out and either block us & shut down Discord for the day, or insult us.
The first 2 times the city was mentioned, they temporarily closed their whole office/call-center.
All the scammers that had strict schedules, indicating office work, disconnected in the span of 2 minutes, with one of them saying to a friend “there is problem at my work” (we lost the screenshot sadly))
We never got the same reaction with other nearby cities, which led us to think that they’re based there
- Talora Online
We have reasons to believe that this Talora Online ISP is a fake one that is being used to hide the scam activities, and possibly launder the revenues
In Bangladesh, literally anyone can create his own ISP by getting a license from the government (very easy, just have to pay a bit) and by renting a part of the infrastructure of one of the big ISPs. We think that this is what our scam company here did.
We believe that this is a fake ISP that for the following reasons:
- They only have 512 IP addresses assigned to them, which seems extremely low for an ISP, even a small one created by a random person
- Their website is entirely fake and only consists of a single index page. It’s literally impossible to order any of their products, which seems very weird for a legit business
- The phone numbers on their website never answers and there are multiple addresses for the same business (all in Talora), none of them actually exists. The only IRL presence of this company is a small sign in Talora’s main market (very close to the suspected location of the call-center).
- The only Internet presence outside of their fake website is a small Facebook page with 30 likes, hasn’t been active for years
We don’t have any proof that the owners of Talora Online are connected to the scam company, but it seems pretty weird that they would be unaware that most of their clients are doing scams
- Their office/call-center
By getting some scammers angry enough, some scammers openly admitted being in Talora as they wanted to fight us (they’re this stupid, yes)
2 of them made video calls to insult us, showing their surroundings. From the 1st of these calls (we didn’t record unfortunately), there was multiple scammers on the ground floor of a small building. There was a staircase in the back leading to an upper floor, probably where the scammers are located. The building wasn’t on one of the main roads but it was very close, as we could hear recurrent honks from vehicles
In the 2nd call, we can see that there is a group of scammers, including the caller named “Fahim”, around a pond surrounded by trees.
This type of pond exists in 2 places in Talora, and it correlates with the informations from the 1st call (building not on a main road but close to one).
Here is the video of this call : https://youtu.be/OdcTKIttwtI
With this information, we deduced that the call-center is probably in this area :
- The building (?)
We frequently used their town name against them to scare them and make them log off, unable to scam for a while. But some of them weren’t afraid anymore and even answered questions to tell us where we would fight 
. We also managed to “corrupt” some employees into giving information by promising and faking a sign up on their link, as they are very desperate to have a sign-up (they probably don’t have a lot as they are very stupid)
It turns out that most of those guys like their job and brag about it, but they don’t really like their bosses, as they pay them minimum wage (when considering the affiliating rewards that the company gets, the employees get like 10% of the reward through their salary) and they are quite authoritarian (confirmed by 3 different scammers). Those few disgruntled employees were very eager to talk about it, just like the “corrupted” ones or the ones who want to fight
5 different scammers gave us the same building when we asked about where the office was. They all seemed to be unaware that other scammers gave the same information, this is why we think it might be correct.
I am talking about the “Altaf Ali High School”. It is located right in the middle of the area deduced above
Here is an example that my friend obtained :
Another scammer that told me the same location on both Discord and Telegram:
This scammer also mentioned “muragasa / muktagasa” when asked about the boss’ location, as well as “Chuduk lal”, which seems to be a nickname. This place isn’t on Google Maps but it does exist, it appears in a few Bengali governmental registries
A 3rd scammer named Pranto also mentions it on Telegram
Additional information : here is a video by NoTextToSpeech that was made after we contacted him about the scam (we barely knew anything at the time), he found a few interesting things such as the reason they’re doing this scam (affiliate payments), and what the websites are really about (other scammers defrauding vulnerable people out of thousands with a traditional romance scam) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE8EkB0X27A