Fact Check: Anant Ambani DID NOT Endorse Crypto Platform Scamming People. Viral Reports on Interview Fake
Alleged ‘BBC’ reports claiming Anant Ambani made controversial remarks during a news interview and even endorsed a cryptocurrency platform scamming people are fake, a fact check by News18 has found.
In fact, the posts when clicked on, lead users to a dubious website promoting bitcoins and promising investors to double their returns.
THE DUBIOUS LINKS
The post goes with the headline: Bank of India sues Anant Ambani for his remarks on live television TV shows. The link to the post is here
This article claims that Ambani during an interview with ‘Humans of Bombay’ said that his assistant earned money using the “1X Alrex platform”. It claims that Ambani made the interviewee also register on the platform, who also earned an immediate profit.
The slideshow in the picture has a second headline: CNBC-TV18 management refuses to comment on the scandal surrounding its interview “Vantara (Star of the Forest)”. The link to the post is here
When you click on the link, which the report says Ambani made the anchor click on, it takes you a page to join the platform. Link here
There, users can register and invest in cryptocurrency. They are promised an income of $950 to $2200 daily.
THE FACT CHECK
- On running a search on the BBC website for the stories, no such story was found.
- News18 ran a Google search with the headline + BBC, again there was no result.
- Ambani’s interview with CNN-News18’s Anand Narasimhan is available online and it mentions no such thing. The link is here
- The links of the alleged news reports start with escapekpom.com and not with that of any news websites they mention.
- One of the links claims Ambani gave an interview to CNBC-TV18, but the picture is of the interview with India Today’s Rahul Kanwal.
Conclusion: The fact check clearly shows that the links are fake, which are only being used as a clickbait for a cryptocurrency scam.
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