Thread by @akkiman

Keep hearing about these job scam messages on WhatsApp and read so many articles of people getting duped, so decided to try it out... Let's see where this leads us...

So this was some account on WhatsApp asking me if I have an insta profile and a telegram acct... I said yes to both and created burner profiles on both ..

Next was given a task to like and follow some accounts on IG.. which I promptly do and then I'm asked to add someone called the "receptionist" on telegram which I promptly do as well...

So after talking to the receptionist, I'm eager to learn more so tell my so called "salary code"... They ask for some bank details, so i promptly provide one (rarely used account with 1000 rupees balance) ... And they transfer me 210 rupees as promised...

Next I tell them i got the money, and I'm then told that I'll be added to some special group... Just like the MO that I've read about this scam... To show that I'm interested , i nag them that I'm still not added...

Looks like they do their quick and dirty "background check" before adding to the group... Once on the group, I was shocked by how gullible folks are.... I'm asked to follow and like insta handles and share screenshots ... .. we keep getting these tasks

Now there's a prepaid activity too which is where the fun starts... You pay some sum, and then pay you back that sum plus the extra using some crypto currency bs... See payment screenshots and those funny names of scammers..

In the meantime, i tell my receptionist that i did the tasks as asked... Promptly getting +140 rupees .. even giving more bs about some currency platforms.....

A combination of gamification and sunk cost fallacy is seen with people putting in lakhs of rupees just like that! Anyways I'll be reporting this to the cyber crime cell... And let's see where this goes... TBC

so continued with this stuff today... this time I wanted to ask about prepaid tasks.. so took a gamble and paid 2k, and was given a "mentor" ... gave a very flimsy URL to register called ff.fxtm.vip/#/ ... so badly designed that I want to cry...

obviously used a wrong telephone to register... guy asked for a number to lookup their DB and then made me buy a BTC 😂😂 and then wait 180seconds till timer went to 0 and amount then changed to 2800 rupees... so they went ahead and paid me 3220...

The URL ownership details of ff.fxtm.vip are redacted for privacy..

So their MO is quite simple
1) Run this from 09:30 a.m. to 09:00 p.m. Run tasks every 25 minutes where they pick some random IG handle for likes and ask for screenshots for 70 bucks.. this is just timepass for the real deal..

2) The real deal is that every 90 mins or so, they run so called "prepaid" tasks where you pay some money and are given back money. During this time, random folks on that group show that they put in money screenshots to give you confidence.

I mean look at these 2 screenshots of a guy making payments (one from yesterday and one from today).. clearly photoshopped.. didn't even bother to change the transaction ids.. just conveniently changing timestamps

This one.. they don't even try to match the colors when changing the timestamps .. lol 🤣..

3) Anyways they put you in touch with a "mentor" who basically asks u to register on the flimsy site and then changes the amount to what you were looking for... so 2800 in case of 2000 and so on...

4) They promptly pay you back increasing your trust with them .. perhaps do this a few times, till you progressively increase your payment to like 50k or so...

5) They then move you up a tier to a different group, where stakes are higher giving you this false fantasy that you have achieved something...

6) At this point they start making excuses when you've invested a few lakhs, they start saying that they can't pay you due to bitcoin issues and what not.. in order to clear it up, they ask you to pay more and more..

7) Eventually you get sucked into it, and before realizing it, you end up losing even more lakhs of hard earned rupees...sunk cost fallacy...

This is done exclusively through messaging, and all through Telegram because well Russian and notoriously bad when it comes to govt. asking for details from them...

so be careful, setup multifactor auth for everything that you have, do not share card PAN details,cvv with anyone, account numbers, pretty much anything . Enforce zero trust when it comes to online dealings.. Finally there's no easy money... so all of these schemes are just BS.

anyways I'm done with this shit..I'll supply all this as evidence to the cyber crime portal. Hopefully with the acct numbers and domain regn. they can trace the people and hopefully take some action.. For now 'll grab a few beers with the 1400 I earned off them..