Yes it is fake says and i few point you can be true.Because in Asian country Like Bangladesh, they have low income and the Google merchant account(selling) is not available there.So if you are facing like this kind of problems than it is true and if you are facing low money feedback tan it is not true. Because Google is equal for all but facilities are differ from country to country.
Well Epom and TF requires at least 500,000 impression a month to be accepted, that's probably well beyond reach of your regular adsenser
Adsense is more better to Asian countries but there is one problem that we Asian people never make a good website to grow and to be able to have adsense activated.
i haven't heard of such requirements of epom market... that's quite strange. they approved me with far less volumes...
Well it is true i am from Pakistan i have an image based website which i also drive traffic from social networks but i hardly get 10$ while my friend in USA have the same niche site and he earns around 50$ per day :| we have the same niche Facebook page ( mostly fans from USA ) and we both drive traffic from facebook mostly