On July 21, a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crashed into a building of Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka. As the horrifying aftermath of the crash unfolded, the entire nation was consumed by concern and grief.

Amidst this tragedy, a Facebook page named “Anonymous Main Page” stirred intense discussion and debate on social media with a post published a day earlier, on July 20 (archived link).

That post issued a vague warning about a future school building collapse leading to child casualties, claiming it would occur due to poor building maintenance. Many began linking this with the Milestone School incident, causing the post to quickly go viral among Bangladeshi Facebook users. This led to widespread speculation and conspiracy theories.

The page later made another post claiming that the Milestone incident was the very warning it had given earlier. Using phrases like “we warned you, no one listened,” the page tried to claim credit.

Using screenshots of the post, some people started suggesting the crash was planned, asserting the page had issued a prior warning. Additionally, some users started promoting “Anonymous Main Page” as the internationally renowned hacktivist group “Anonymous,” or confusing it with “Anonymous Global South”—a group previously linked to exposing a Bangladesh Airlines scandal, discussed in a post by journalist Zulkarnain Saer (see post).

Later, some media outlets also published reports referencing this Facebook page’s post (example).

Did the viral post really predict the Milestone jet crash?

If we examine the post by “Anonymous Main Page,” it clearly states that a school building will collapse, killing many children, and that the cause will be poor maintenance. However, the Milestone incident was entirely different—no building collapsed due to structural failure. Instead, a fighter jet crashed into the building, causing a fire that injured and killed several students.

The post makes no mention of aircraft, crashes, or fire-related casualties. Instead, it uses phrases like “A school building will collapse” and “This will be as a result of poor maintenance on the building,” pointing squarely toward a building collapse due to managerial shortcomings. Therefore, linking this to the Milestone tragedy is misleading and inaccurate.

There’s no specific date or location in the post—it’s a vague and open-ended prediction seemingly crafted so that any similar event anywhere in the world could later be matched to it, allowing the page to falsely claim credit.

This lets them say, “See, we warned you,” after any tragic event. It’s a tactic to gain trust and portray themselves as prophetic, which they can later exploit, typically to trap people in rigged gambling or fixed match betting schemes.

Given the frequency of accidents globally, making a general warning about a school collapse almost guarantees it will match some future event. On the same day as the Milestone crash, a wall at a primary school in India collapsed due to heavy rainfall, killing one student and injuring several others (source). Such incidents are not rare, making these vague predictions almost always retroactively applicable somewhere.

Some users also tried linking “Anonymous Main Page” to the genuine investigative group “Anonymous Global South” via journalist Zulkarnain Saer. However, no evidence supports any connection between the two pages.

Rumor Scanner contacted Zulkarnain Saer, who in turn reached out to Anonymous Global South. They responded that they have no knowledge of “Anonymous Main Page” and suspect it to be a scam site operated with fraudulent intent.

Strangely, on the same day, “Anonymous Main Page” broadcasted a previously released July 8 video statement from Anonymous Global South (see video), seemingly attempting to pass it off as their own or falsely claim affiliation.

Preliminary findings indicate that “Anonymous Main Page” is run by Nigerian operators, with most of its content focused on Nigeria and Africa.

Facebook’s page transparency tool shows that the page is managed from Nigeria and the U.S., with one admin’s location hidden. A Bangladeshi cyber group named Probfly IT claimed to have exposed the admins of the page (post). Their post included profile links to three admins and one editor—at least two profiles are of Nigerian individuals. However, these accounts and the page have since disappeared, likely due to removal after coordinated reporting by local cyber teams.

Content analysis shows that the page primarily targeted online football gamblers. By claiming to know outcomes of “fixed matches” and issuing conspiratorial “predictions,” they sought to build trust and lure users into betting scams.

They frequently posted bizarre predictions targeting individuals (mostly African, especially Nigerian), such as: “This person’s kidney will fail in three days,” or “This Indian man will die in a decapitation accident.” These posts served to threaten critics or dissenters, as revealed in an investigation by Nigeria’s HumAngle Media.

In another post, the page shared a video of a man in Nigeria being shot, claiming: “We told him to stay inside, he didn’t listen, so he died.” No prior warning could be found, indicating the video was repurposed to fake predictive power and boost credibility.

As Bangladeshi users began widely sharing the page’s posts and its follower count surged, the page started targeting Bangladesh with specific and alarming predictions. For example, it posted: “There will be a bomb blast in Bangladesh’s market within weeks,” even specifying “Gausia Market.” These posts stoked fear and went viral.

They used this fear to promote their other pages, asking users to follow them, clearly exploiting Bangladesh’s high online engagement for greater reach. At this point, they deliberately began targeting Bangladeshi concerns as a social media growth tactic.

Searching Google with relevant keywords reveals a detailed investigative report by Nigeria’s HumAngle Media, titled “The Facebook Network Using Prophecies And Disinformation To Swindle Nigerians”, published on September 10, 2024.

Its subhead reads: “Anonymous wants you to spend hundreds of dollars on sports betting tickets that promise massive wins. They know you might hesitate, so they use a cocktail of deceit and allure to push you in.”

HumAngle found that a fraudulent Nigerian network is using the name and imagery of the real hacktivist group “Anonymous” to trap people. Mimicking Anonymous masks, slogans like “We are Anonymous. We are Legion,” and foreign videos, they pose as legitimate. With vague prophecies, conspiracy theories, and fake hacking videos, they manipulate followers and later sell high-priced “fixed match” tips promising sure wins.

To build credibility, they manufacture success stories using fake reviews, screenshots, and artificial Facebook comments. They even impersonate foreign identities to appear global, with some Western collaborators possibly involved.

The vague “school building collapse” post was just another tool in their predictive scam playbook. When the Milestone crash happened, they seized the coincidence to claim credit, and Bangladeshi users unknowingly amplified the hoax.

Because their strategy relies on appearing prophetic to lure people into betting scams, they falsely claimed the Milestone incident as validation.

But the reality is: their post had no reference to the Milestone crash, nor were they a reliable source.

This is a calculated scam by a foreign fraud ring. They deliberately post ambiguous, time/location-less warnings that can be matched to real events later to appear credible.

The Milestone tragedy was manipulated in this way. Exploiting public grief and confusion, they turned one of Bangladesh’s most tragic incidents into a deceptive promotional stunt.