Spoken to bank re losing money to remote working scam - what next ?

deejaybee

eskbanker said:

Out of curiosity, what was it that you were expecting to get for your initial £2200 (and subsequent instalments)?

And how did the scammers explain the necessity to use crypto payment?

I typed a big reply but just lost it, sorry

deejaybee

2200 wasnt initial investment, in fact after the training period, i had 100 in feedvisor account that was generated on the training account..  Just baiting the hook...

At start of 3rd day i had 912 in feedvisor account, at that stage had put in 600.  Tried to withdraw 812, but the "usersupport" ( probably all in same office ) messaged that i could withdraw max 400, as i was a new user, but next day withdraw limit would go up to 5000.

Withdrew 400 but later in day while doing the work had to redeposit the 400 plus more.

eskbanker

deejaybee said:

eskbanker said:

Out of curiosity, what was it that you were expecting to get for your initial £2200 (and subsequent instalments)?

And how did the scammers explain the necessity to use crypto payment?

I typed a big reply but just lost it, sorry

No need for War & Peace, but a brief summary would potentially help others who might see this and be more vigilant as a result.

deejaybee

The so called work:

"Rating" Amazon products -  2 x data sets each day, 40 products in each. - just clicking a button to rate.

Commission - 1% of product value for most products, BUT there were also "MERGE" products, these were bundles of 2 or 3 products, explanation was that sellers bundled unpopular products with more popular products.

The MERGE was the scam, you were paid 5% commission on these, BUT the value of the bundle was always MORE than the value of your feedvisor balance, so your balance went ON HOLD, and you had a negative balance that you had to clear by depositing more funds, once done, the ON HOLD was returned to you, so far so good, but soon you would hit another MERGE even higher value than previous one.

Current state of play for me is that my balance is minus over 3500 ( wont put exact figure ) so i would have to deposit that to clear balance, return funds to balance and carry on working.

I had woken up by then, told them i had no funds to deposit, they have given me a 7 day extension ( ends next Tues) to come up with the funds.

Obviously no intention of depositing, but have told them i will, to keep the communication open for now, in case there is any way these vermin can be caught ( prob no chance )

<EDIT> There was also "salary"  100 after 2 days, 400 after 5 days,  800 after 10 days, so 1300 in 10 day cycle.

eskbanker

I've read that multiple times but it just comes across as word salad, so they must have been very persuasive to move the dialogue from paying participants to collecting from them!  However, I appreciate that it's easy to spot the warning signs from a detached distance....

Eyeful

1. Go about half way down to "Company Overview" on this website checker page,
https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/feedvisor-scale-com-review/

2. This scammers Malware Score & Phishing Score are very high.

3. Suggest you do a full deep scan with your security software, to make sure they have not put some type of malware on to your computer as well.

4. Maybe go as far as to double checking with the Free Malwarebtyes Antivirus as well.
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download

 

flaneurs_lobster

eskbanker said:

I've read that multiple times but it just comes across as word salad, so they must have been very persuasive to move the dialogue from paying participants to collecting from them!  However, I appreciate that it's easy to spot the warning signs from a detached distance....

It's a variation on (fraudulent) schemes that I've seen before - you are able to progress up a scale/level that will give you greater returns but the "system" (it's always someone else's system) insists on a certain balance be reached before you can advance. The quickest and most lucrative way to proceed is to add some funds of your own which will, of course be returned.....

It will have a personalised account showing how much "commission/earnings/bonus/whatever" is "pending" your financial deposit....

Scheme can be incremented ad infinitum until the mark tries to withdraw some of their riches......

There will almost certainly be a follow-up after a week or two from Acme Fraud Recovery Co offering to recover your lost money for a modest up-front payment.....

Grumpy_chap

MyRealNameToo said:

sure many of us know of the story of the guy who bought a pizza with bitcoin, 

I don't.    

flaneurs_lobster

Grumpy_chap said:

MyRealNameToo said:

sure many of us know of the story of the guy who bought a pizza with bitcoin, 

I don't.    

The story's here on Coinbase's site

https://www.coinbase.com/en-gb/learn/crypto-glossary/what-is-bitcoin-pizza

deejaybee

Any advice what to do re the Whatapp numbers i have accumulated ?

Have one for the fake job agency, One for "user support",  Two for my "mentor",  One for the person who said they started new as same time as me,  and one for the group chat.

was planning to report & block, anything else worthwhile?