Web Series Review | Money Mafia Season 2: A Promising Series, Cursorily Told – FilmyVoice
Concern and greed are emotional points that make a person blind, silly, and straightforward prey. This identified truth is reiterated by Season 2 of Cash Mafia, streaming on discovery+.
The collection consisting of 4 episodes every lasting half-hour, showcases white collared organised crimes particularly: The IRS Name Centre Rip-off, The Fashionable Finance Rip-off of Kerala, The Ketan Parekh case, and the Cryptocurrency Fraud.
These scams and frauds made headlines after they have been unearthed a couple of years in the past. For many who haven’t heard of them, this collection is instructional. However for others, the collection is a reiteration.
The primary episode covers the 300 million IRS (US-based Inside Income Service) Name Centre Rip-off. There are unusually two units of victims right here. First, the US residents who have been conned to pay the fraudsters, cash claiming to be excellent taxes, and second the gullible staff of the decision centre who thought they have been doing a noble job of extracting the unpaid taxes.
The second episode highlights the Rs 2,000 crore Ponzi scheme of Fashionable Finance, a Non-Banking Monetary Firm primarily based in Kerala, the place the victims have been left within the lurch after the promoters of the corporate absconded.
The third episode unravels the rise and fall of stockbroker Ketan Parekh who manipulated the inventory market from 1998 to 2001. Throughout this era, he artificially rigged costs of sure chosen securities which have been informally known as Okay-10 shares. Believing that Ketan had a Midas contact, traders blindly adopted go well with until the bubble burst.
The ultimate episode chronicles the recognition of the brand new digital funding Cryptocurrency and the frauds round it. It additionally tells us concerning the rise and fall of Amit Bhardwaj, the person who is usually thought of the pioneer of cryptocurrency in India. Paradoxically, he’s additionally the autumn man.
This overview is completed primarily based on the primary two episodes of the collection, and whereas the collection seems promising, the telling of those intriguing tales is bland and half-hearted.
The episodes are packaged, like a documentary with; footage from Information and media channels like NDTV, Kairali Information, Pathanamthhitta media, and with opinions from Former Finance Minister of Kerala, an FBI agent, Investigative in addition to Monetary Journalists, Supreme court docket lawyer, Particular Public Prosecutor, Defence Counsel.
Every episode delivers a cursory perception into the surprising and intriguing con pulled over gullible residents. Additionally, all the data given is aggregated from open platforms, and there may be nothing novel within the telling. Furthermore, credit are usually not given to the speaking heads, thus making the viewers a passive spectator of what they already know with out realizing who’s contributing, the content material.
Total, the collection is a mediocre documentation of the ‘Cash Mafias’.
–By Troy Ribeiro
