Dhaka, June 26 -- A fake news site with a logo similar to bdnews24.com has been used to publish misinformation involving a financial scam that uses the likeness of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus.

Simultaneously, a fake video has been making the rounds on Facebook which uses the chief advisor's likeness to promote a new government investment platform that promises to give Tk 370,000 in returns for a minimum investment of Tk 31,000.

Fraudsters have spread similar pieces of fake news before. In those cases, they also created a fake website using a logo similar to bdnews24.com and featured stories relating to Finance Advisor Salehuddin Ahmed.

The new fake video involving the chief advisor began to spread as a sponsored post on Facebook on Ju...