A victim shared his/her unfortunate experience after responding to job offerings from Telegram.
We are censoring the phone number as it might belong to a real person, scammers often spoof the phone numbers of a real phone.
Sometimes the number is reflected from legit numbers but there is always a +65, it’s sometimes best to call and verify if you receive weird messages from known associates. Especially when it’s about money.
This kind of scam is to target greedy people, they let you taste a bit of the “sugar” showing on their platform that you have made a certain amount of money.
The Police have warned the public time and time again about such scams. Always be careful.
Here is what the victim said:
I got a text message
TIKTOKHIRING 25 partners to work part-time Job can work form home
just need to have a smart phone
Working time: can work when you have free time
Salary: Part time per day$50-$250++
Salary: Full time per month$4500++
Free registration, the first 30 registrations will get an immediate commission of $5
If you are interested, please use the invitation code to contact your receptionist add whatsapp:https://wa.me/65******
whatsapp: +65******
This was the message. They are promoting their SPONSORS who are doing blog, video etc in SOCIAL media. Then they added me to a WhatsApp group.
Started working too. Got a small amount of money too. Then they would give you bigger tasks to give more money.
The task was to repurchase a product from Amazon. I cannot complete the task. So i lost money.