The following is a thread on LinkedIn posted by Troy Gochenour, an investigator for the Global Anti-Scam Organization – which combats various forms of online scams: pig butchering, fake work-from-home, shopping triangulation, et al.
He lays out the entire arc of a fake “work from home” job scam, involving “missions” – which can be anything from (presumably) boosting reviews or otherwise mining clicks – but it’s really just a ruse to get you to deposit into your “earnings” account to get yourself up to the next payout threshold.
I wanted to run it here because a I’ve seen this happen in the real world, in one case a business in my neighbourhood owned by a couple of brothers, and one of them fell for more than one of these scams – losing over $65,000 CAD between across them (and one of the partners even has a degree in computer engineering!)
These scams aren’t limited to technical newbies – they are sophisticated, have elaborate interfaces (which are 100% shams) and complimented with a healthy dose of social engineering to lure and defraud the unsuspecting.
— markjr
The full LinkedIn thread is here:
Let’s do this. I’m going to show you how this scam works:
Now for the clicking:
Top of that page:
For this one I click start mission and I get a screen like this. I then click submit.
Once I click submit I get this screen and I am supposed to click “A” where the 5 stars are. These website may work slightly differently but still very much the same. When I’m done with this “training” account, I will log out and then log into my account and do the exact same thing.
Let me tell you the end of the story.
After I fished my clicking my account said I had $70 USDT but to make a withdrawal I have to “top up” to $100 by sending $30 USDT.
This is the scam.
If I send 30 I might actually get paid then they will move me to a higher pay scale and that’s where the scam really begins. One victim told me, their account went negative and they had to pay USDT to get their account positive again and also more clicking. It goes on and on like this until the victim figures it out.
Here are the wallets:
BTC: 3EC6o3ET6dpnkwQGVqAxUKV5vN7e8zwvhy
USDT: 0xdc059f3139893dDac4bAC69581b612AEafEC75d3
Feel free to trace these wallets
Here’s the website and their code which you do need to be able to log on to these task scam websites. I will give my registration information if anyone wants to join.
Link: hxxps://dripshopiutu.com
Invitation code: YUTK8T
So I logged out of the training account and logged back into my own account and it says an available balance of 67 USDT at the top right.
