Amanda Z.
Google
This is a complete scam. They send you a message on WhatsApp to recruit members to rate hotels, and then you get paid. Sounds easy, doesn't it. Well, it's definitely not what it appears to be. A recruiter named "Fiona" reached out and then tells you to download the Telegram application. Then they invite you into a group of other people who are all doing the same thing. Everyone is sharing their experiences and how much money they just made, and so on. So far, everything has been very inviting and motivating. Then you start your tasks by rating 33 hotels every day. This is a complete lie because you're randomly giving 5star ratings, and you have never experienced any of them. When it's time to get your paid out, they start giving you the run around. Agent Fiona tells you to contact Customer Service and send screenshots that you have completed the daily tasks. Customer Service will then ask you to withdraw your funds into your crypto account, and then there is an issue. Customer Service tells you contact you agent for assistance and then Agent Fiona will offer you her agent code to help you withdraw your funds and then its doesn't work because she apparently met her quota on that agent code. In that moment, Customer Service will tell you that you need to pay 40K, and then you can collect your 40K and all your bonuses and your cut for doing your tasks. We didn't have 40K laying around, so they gave us time (7days) to gather that money. In the meantime, Customer Service said she will contact the merchant and put your account on hold, but they don't tell you that your credit score drops every day when your tasks are not completed. Well, to our surprise, by the 7th day and 40K later, the credit score dropped to 76 points from 100 points. You will not be allowed to withdraw anything until you bring that score back to 100 points and by doing that you will need to pay 2K for every point to go up and then they put another time limit on you. In all of this, I reached out to the CEO of this company to ask if this is legit. I emailed him and sent him a message on Instagram with screenshots and no reply. Then we decided that this was a scam and filed a police report with the authorities about the scam. Then, out of the blue, Agent Fiona started reaching out, saying she was going to assist with helping us with other codes from senior agents because she felt responsible for giving us a bad code. Obviously, at this point, we thought ok maybe this is true and legit. Then she played it off that she is waiting for her money and started pressing us to come up with our side of the payment. She wanted us to come up with another 10-15K. At this point we told Customer service that we made a police report and then Customer service apparently went back to "HQ" and they will settle the other 18K and we had 2 weeks extension to come up with 15K. Once we paid our portion, they said ok you will get all your money you put in and you bonuses and fees for completed tasks. Then again, when it was withdrawal time, customer service said we needed to pay taxes, so we were looking at another $7800. Once that was paid Customer service said the money is out of their hands now but they got an email from FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) and we have 14days to comply with the email that Customer Service received. FinCEN wants us to submit a 20% mandatory compliance deposit on the total amount to the verification wallet and submit some sort of identification, or we run the risk of losing all our money. A government agency would never ask you to send money to get your money! This is a total scam, and they are all in on it. They are stealing money from everyone. Please be careful and do not allow these people to take advantage of you and steal all your money. This was an awful experience, and we don't want anyone else to fall into this trap!
