Hello and thank you for reading this.
Let me start at the beginning to give you context. At the beginning of 2023, my wife came to me and raised concerns that her mental health was deuterating. After discussing it, we thought we could survive on just my salary so she resigned from her role and started focusing on our family. After a while it became clear that we could not survive on my salary alone but to try and protect my wife, I attempted to reduce our expenses and find side work that I could earn a bit of extra cash to keep us above water. It must have been something I posted somewhere with regards to looking for side work that led to getting a message from someone claiming that they had part-time jobs in the UK.
This is where the scammer steps in…
I was put in contact with a local manager who would walk me through the job.
You start with 100 USDT (cryptocurrency) which in fact they gave me most of it for free. I would then submit optimization jobs for a set (40 jobs) and each one would earn a half of a percent per job. You were only allowed to do 3 sets a day and when I ran the math it came out to 20-30 USDT per day in profits. There was also a ‘salary’ provided which followed the idea that if you logged in consecutively for 5 days, they would pay you 800 USDT. Before I dived into this too good to be true ‘job’ I did attempt to research the company, the job, etc. The company is listed as a legit company in California and nowhere did anything mention a scam like this. I figured I would give it a go and see how things went, especially as I had only invested about 20 USDT at this point. I finished the first day’s set and was allowed to withdraw the funds. I had in fact turned my 20 USDT investment into about 160 USDT. Day 2 rolled around and again I was able to run the 3 sets of jobs and now my balance was up to 225ish, which again I was able to withdraw from their platform and move to my personal digital wallet. My confidence was growing considering I was not being forced to keep the funds with them but was able to withdraw each day. Then day 3 happen and I was introduced to something called a ‘super order’ which required me to deposit a bit more funding to overcome an order that cost more than the balance I had available at the time. The difference was about 50-75 USDT which I was reassured by my ‘manager’ and ‘other workers’ that this was normal, and it would be fine. Nervous but feeling like it would be OK, I went ahead and purchased more crypto and then transferred it in. I was able to complete the set and withdraw the funds now pushing 300ish USDT. Day 4 started and again it went fine with me moving my balance up to 350ish USDT. Day 5 was the day when it all went wrong. I started the first set and that was ‘normal’ but then as soon as I started set 2, as promised they deposited 800 USDT into my balance. This pushed my balance in the platform over 1000 USDT which scared me because I knew if I was hit by a ‘super order’ I would be in trouble to pull the funds out. Looking back, I honestly wish I had stopped there and just taken the loss of around a hundred USDT. I was reassured by my ‘manager’ and ‘co-workers’ that I would be ok and just needed to finish the set and withdraw the funds. During the course of doing the set I was hit by a total of 3 ‘super orders’. The first two I was able to pull funds together to keep going but it cost me around 2500 USDT to do it. Then on job 40 of 40 for the set, I was hit with the 3rd ‘Super Order’ which required another deposit of 3300 USDT. At this point, I had no more funds available to sort it out. I voiced my frustration with my ‘manager’ and ‘co-workers’ who all claimed I just needed to finish the set and I would be fine. I even reached out to the company’s support complaining that they had set me up. Over the next few weeks, I ran the numbers and realized that there was a high risk that playing this game would result in huge losses of money. I knew at this point that it was a scam, but I convinced myself if I just finish this last order, I can pull the money out and then walk away. I even tried to make sure they (scammers) thought I was still in the game myself by saying things like, once I unlock, I am going to keep going. After getting paid, I nervously but confidently purchased enough crypto to finish the last job of the set, fully expecting to be able to then withdraw the funds and walk away. I should have known better as they ‘changed the rules’ and now required me to complete 15 more jobs before I could withdraw. At this point they funds were already with them, and I had no choice but to take a chance that their system would let me get through the 15 jobs and then withdraw. I made it to the 13th job before it asked me to deposit another 2200 USDT.
I am done with the game and fully expect that I lost because the game was rigged in the first place. I have managed to put my family at risk now because we no longer have the funds to cover the bills this month. I have explained to my wife why I did what I did and while she is not happy with me, she understands what I was trying to do. I have reported them to the authorities, and I am speaking with others to see if there is any way to recover the funds but none of it is looking promising because the ‘business’ in California may in fact not actually be behind this platform and may be having their name and logo used without their knowing. I have in fact reached out to the business to find out if they are in fact aware of this.
All and all, I am in the hole by about £5000 ($6400) and my wife and I attempting to figure out how to deal with the loss and recover. We have a partial plan which will take time and being very painful to do but if anyone out there is feeling helpful and generous and would like to assist us in recovering quicker and ideally less painfully, we would be ever so grateful. I am hopeful that I can raise between £5000 and £7500 ($6400-$9500) to get out of this hole and if we are ever so lucky get slightly ahead.
Per the suggestion of this website, I have created a pay.me link for my wife’s PayPal account which can be found below.
https://paypal.me/begging4moneyuk?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB
Thank you in advance,
Jason & Katie