Dubai-based TV host denies role in get-rich-quick scheme
Fake advertorial shows Uma Ghosh endorsing an auto-trading software for cryptocurrencies
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Dubai-based TV host Uma Ghosh has been left aghast after an advertisement for a dubious get-richquick scheme featuring her face and name went viral on Facebook.
Peddled as a news report, the fake advertorial shows Ghosh endorsing an auto-trading software for cryptocurrencies during a talk show.
It even has a purported quote from Ghosh describing how easy it was to “make massive amounts of money” in digital currencies using the automated trader.
“After her initial deposit for Dh1,000 was made, the trading platform went to work, buying low and selling high. Within three minutes she had successfully increased her initial funds to Dh1,774. That’s a Dh774 profit,” said the article.
Ghosh said she has nothing to do with the article which has been flooding the Facebook ■ feeds of unsuspecting UAE residents over the week.
“I am not even remotely associated with it. This false advertising is not only tarnishing my image, it’s also luring people to invest in what may well be a scam,” she warned.
“I wrote to the website which published this misleading article, but the email bounced back,” she told Gulf News yesterday. ■
Of late, several high-profile celebrities in the UAE and abroad have been wrongly linked to similar fake advertorials involving binary options, auto-trading and cryptocurrencies.
Among them is British reality television judge and producer Simon Cowell.
Recently, it was reported that Conwell had invested £500,000 of his own capital, calling it a ‘wealth creation system.’