Scamming issue

Londonguy1976

Hello,

Please can i get some advise on what I can do, I foolishly got involved with a TikTok scam, where you click on tiktoks like, share etc. and you get paid for tasks.  then you get asked to do a prepaid task which I did two off them and received funds back into my account, at this point i was £73.00 Up

now the scammers have requested the funds back and i am in dispute with revolut, who have seriously bad customer services, being pushed from pillar to post for webchat

Is there anything i can do here, or is this a case of if you get scammed its your fault but the scammers can get the money back if they dont get to scam you?

flaneurs_lobster

Not sure how you've been scammed here. You are £73 up, this has been credited to your account at Revolut?

Just withdraw it. 

Aylesbury_Duck

flaneurs_lobster said:

Not sure how you've been scammed here. You are £73 up, this has been credited to your account at Revolut?

Just withdraw it. 

That was my first reaction, but I wonder if the money has already been the subject of a chargeback by the other party, hence why OP is in dispute with their bank?

Even then, OP hasn't been financially scammed, because they haven't lost any money.

Grumpy_chap

Londonguy1976 said:

Hello,

Please can i get some advise on what I can do, I foolishly got involved with a TikTok scam, where you click on tiktoks like, share etc. and you get paid for tasks.  then you get asked to do a prepaid task which I did two off them and received funds back into my account, at this point i was £73.00 Up

now the scammers have requested the funds back and i am in dispute with revolut, who have seriously bad customer services, being pushed from pillar to post for webchat

Is there anything i can do here, or is this a case of if you get scammed its your fault but the scammers can get the money back if they dont get to scam you?

Sounds very odd - is it possibly linked to some "money mule" type activity or other kind of "money laundering"?

Whatever happens with this £73, the OP might be best to steer well clear of this group going forwards.

born_again

How were the payments paid?

Report them to TikTok for their action recruiting people to fiddle the system with fake likes etc.

powerful_Rogue

Sounds a bit like pig butchering. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOoqNdlQ8o

Ergates

Londonguy1976 said:

Hello,

Please can i get some advise on what I can do, I foolishly got involved with a TikTok scam, where you click on tiktoks like, share etc. and you get paid for tasks.  then you get asked to do a prepaid task which I did two off them and received funds back into my account, at this point i was £73.00 Up

now the scammers have requested the funds back and i am in dispute with revolut, who have seriously bad customer services, being pushed from pillar to post for webchat

Is there anything i can do here, or is this a case of if you get scammed its your fault but the scammers can get the money back if they dont get to scam you?

For future reference:   Any time someone offers you money to do something that is incredibly easy and/or takes zero effort and/or could easily be scripted - it's a scam.   Nobody is going to pay you to click on TikTok videos, they can just use a bot to do that.

itsthelittlethings

Just to make you feel better, I nearly fell for this. I got so far as interacting with the scammers and watching the first video. It was only when they started talking money that I realised it was a scam.

donnac2558

There was the man Nick who does Scam TV shows.  He was talking about this on the BBC Morning Show on Monday.

He got an invitation to watch videos and give a good review just two words even.  Yes, he got the money, I think he said £50+ for the first two. All great, but then the next stage starts, to get £1500 per day, you had to invest money into the company running it to get up to the next money earning part.  And that is the scam because they will never pay.

Ergates

It seems like this is something that should be taught in school.  Pupils should be made to watch videos of the late great Lynn Faulds Wood saying "If it seems too good to be true then it probably is"