Description

I was approached by a person under the name Elena per Whatsapp for a job which was to give reviews for products offered somewhere in the Internet, it was not disclosed where. I was supposed to earn a salary of 800 USD after 5 days, 1800 after 10 days and 3800 after 30 days plus a commission between 100 and 200 USD per day. I was asked to do 3 sets of 100 reviews each, whereas i only had to submit prefabricated 5 star reviews that i could not even change. As it was described here before, the system was suddenly stuck and i was supposed to chat with “Customer Service” to ask them to reset my account and put some additional “money” into the system . They called it “lucky orders” ! In fact i was not ordering anything. This happened 2 twice in the training phase and they filled up my account to make up for the negative balance. Then, after the training phase it happened again and i was supposed to pay in 35 USD in cryptocurrency. I did that and 2 days later, my negative balance was suddenly 2.200 USD and my frozen account showed a frozen balance of 4500 USD. They told me i should pay 2200 in and i could withdraw it thereafter. They always wanted to see screenshots of my coinbase crypto account. I became suspicious and stopped my activity. They texted me on Whatsapp and on normal text. I told them i think they are a scam and asked for a company name and address, a FEIN Tax number and a W9. I asked if they are related to HEX crypto and or Mr. Richard Heart, one of the most wanted in Europe and USA for Crypto related fraud allegations. They said only that taxes will be taken care of by “the platform” without answering my questions in detail. They thought i am stupid and do not know how a legal work relationship needs to be set up taxwise. They did not disclose anything. I checked the Whois database for domain names and found out that the domain owner is located in Hongkong, CH and is a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings. Then i found the scammer notice above here which describes exactly the same system. Interestingly enough the person who texted me had the same behavior and language as a scammer i ended up before who introduced himself with faked Facebook identities of friends and claimed that i won 100 k USD and in order to release them i was asked to send him apple gift card numbers. I think it is the same person. They also asked me to join a WhatsApp group of alleged colleagues for work related issues but there where only personal nonsense exchanges and it was all fake.