Scam Type
Employment Scam
Business Name Used
W Communications Employment and Investment Scam
Date Reported
May 30, 2024
Postal Code
75154
Total Dollars Lost
$ 1400
Scam Description
It is a work from home scam. Clara, if it is her real name, spent considerable time with me explaining to use WhatsApp and said the job is to click on merchandise and submit and it improves the merchant’s exposure on the Web. They had 4 levels, VIP1 thru VIP4. She instructed me to download CashApp and link to my bank account. She taught me how to convert dollars to bitcoin and vice versa in the app. A VIP1 would perform 40 tasks times 3, so 3 different sets of tasks. During the process you would get a $50 salary and commissions of 4% for each product clicked on. The first one went smoothly and I deposited $211 back to CashApp and back to my bank account. From there it went downhill. To start the next you have to deposit $100 dollars of bitcoin into work account to proceed with next tasks. You get another salary of $50 along the way and then, like hitting a jackpot, you encounter what’s called a combination trade which with one click it does many products at once and you get extra money. But, it creates a negative number in your account that you have to deposit into work account to clear the negative number to proceed. My first was $510 or something. After you clear, you proceed with the tasks and supposedly at the end you withdraw your money back out. I ended up with $610 and could not draw it out. They said I hadn’t completed all the tasks. They said I had to front another $100 and start the next tasks and the pay would accumulate. I did that and started again tasks and encountered another combination and the number was $932 that I had to front to clear the negative number. I did that and my pay said $1822. I tried to withdraw it and it flashed that the money exceeded the limit for VIP1 and I had to upgrade to a VIP 2. In VIP 2 you have to deposit $500 to do tasks. Anyway, that was where I stopped because I did not want to spend more money and not get mine out. So they owe me $1822 and I spent $1400 and they just come up with excuses and say you have to continue working. A total scam.
