A scammer paid me £27 in ETH..

paddy_proxies said:

You read that right.

So I received a message the other day, which I have received many of this type in the past and ignored.

But this time was different as I was bored so rolled with it. The question, was simple, did I want a job paying £80-90 per hour?!

I played along with all the usual yes, and asked fake questions etc.. without delay I was in a trial where I could do some trial work and make £27 to prove it worked.

What proceed over the next 15 minutes was me using this totally fake/weird UI movie "review" app.. where I would make reviews and get paid for doing so.

When I was complete, I put an Ethereum address into the same app and ended up with £27 worth of ETH in my wallet shortly after....

I had been expecting not to receive it and be told I needed to "verify" my account and pay some fee to release the funds, but no... they actually paid me first.

Here is where the scam begun.. when I started off my wallet said there was a £300 registration bonus, which the scammer referred to and told me I needed to pay £50 in order to release it.

I stopped engaging after that.

It is still unclear if the scam was to gain a few extra nucks (£50-£27) from me.. or were they going to give me another £300... as a further confidence trick and then proceed with some massive scam by trying some account takeover, money mule or transfer scam?

It's hard to know.. I suspect they are making moves for a much large scam as the return on the initial (50-27) scam is statistically quite low as a lot of people would take the money and run.

Anyway.. I took the money and run. A friend said he received those messages too.

I wonder does anybody farm Telegram accounts, they could turn this into a method to take money from scammers LMAO.

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paddy_proxies said:

You read that right.

So I received a message the other day, which I have received many of this type in the past and ignored.

But this time was different as I was bored so rolled with it. The question, was simple, did I want a job paying £80-90 per hour?!

I played along with all the usual yes, and asked fake questions etc.. without delay I was in a trial where I could do some trial work and make £27 to prove it worked.

What proceed over the next 15 minutes was me using this totally fake/weird UI movie "review" app.. where I would make reviews and get paid for doing so.

When I was complete, I put an Ethereum address into the same app and ended up with £27 worth of ETH in my wallet shortly after....

I had been expecting not to receive it and be told I needed to "verify" my account and pay some fee to release the funds, but no... they actually paid me first.

Here is where the scam begun.. when I started off my wallet said there was a £300 registration bonus, which the scammer referred to and told me I needed to pay £50 in order to release it.

I stopped engaging after that.

It is still unclear if the scam was to gain a few extra nucks (£50-£27) from me.. or were they going to give me another £300... as a further confidence trick and then proceed with some massive scam by trying some account takeover, money mule or transfer scam?

It's hard to know.. I suspect they are making moves for a much large scam as the return on the initial (50-27) scam is statistically quite low as a lot of people would take the money and run.

Anyway.. I took the money and run. A friend said he received those messages too.

I wonder does anybody farm Telegram accounts, they could turn this into a method to take money from scammers LMAO.

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paddy_proxies said:

You read that right.

So I received a message the other day, which I have received many of this type in the past and ignored.

But this time was different as I was bored so rolled with it. The question, was simple, did I want a job paying £80-90 per hour?!

I played along with all the usual yes, and asked fake questions etc.. without delay I was in a trial where I could do some trial work and make £27 to prove it worked.

What proceed over the next 15 minutes was me using this totally fake/weird UI movie "review" app.. where I would make reviews and get paid for doing so.

When I was complete, I put an Ethereum address into the same app and ended up with £27 worth of ETH in my wallet shortly after....

I had been expecting not to receive it and be told I needed to "verify" my account and pay some fee to release the funds, but no... they actually paid me first.

Here is where the scam begun.. when I started off my wallet said there was a £300 registration bonus, which the scammer referred to and told me I needed to pay £50 in order to release it.

I stopped engaging after that.

It is still unclear if the scam was to gain a few extra nucks (£50-£27) from me.. or were they going to give me another £300... as a further confidence trick and then proceed with some massive scam by trying some account takeover, money mule or transfer scam?

It's hard to know.. I suspect they are making moves for a much large scam as the return on the initial (50-27) scam is statistically quite low as a lot of people would take the money and run.

Anyway.. I took the money and run. A friend said he received those messages too.

I wonder does anybody farm Telegram accounts, they could turn this into a method to take money from scammers LMAO.

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CPANathan said:

£ signs from an Irishman

Thankfully all went well, I'll just go grab your personal info from somewhere there now

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paddy_proxies said:

My Revolut account is in GBP so I just quoted that.. I spent a few years in the UK and it was good to me.. so no problem there!

I didn't give them any personal information.

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