r/ScamCenter • u/SoulSyzygy • 4h ago

Found a strange telegram crypto scam. Long read.

Hello everyone.

This seems like a scam. But so far I’ve made more money than they’ve taken so I wanted to know if this is the point I should stop. I’ve also got screenshots of all of it.

I’m up $169.83

Here’s the backstory:
I got a text message the other day. Promising some side cash for easy tasks. Claiming to be from indeed.com.
I have a job. But side gigs are great. So why not.

I kinda figured it was too good to be true. But decided to text the number and see what happens.

It’s been an interesting ride the last few days.

So the number I texted promised 6-8k a month. Dealing with the App Store.

After texting I got invited to speak to a manager on telegram.

She gave me the rundown. It’s 10 tasks for 3 days. She invited me to a group. The task schedule is once every 50 minutes a new one pops up. Starting at 8am my time and ending at 3:30 pm. After I completed my first task she asked for my Cash App Bitcoin address and sent me $15.00.

Then I continued doing these tasks.

The tasks are simply opening a link they provide to the App Store. Look at it for 30 seconds. Take a screenshot. Send to manager. Do that 9 times. Get 5 bucks for each one.

Then there’s a special task. First I send bitcoin to an “merchant” address they provide. I sent $50.00 which was the lowest for the first special task, claimed a $15.00 return on that. there was also $100 and $150 dollar options which claimed you’d get a higher return. They connect me to a mentor (new telegram contact) who then walks me through steps. Brought me to their work website where the 50 I sent would appear. Then they asked me to use the 50 to buy bitcoin rising (margin trading?) then once complete I had the option to stop or continue and send another 200 or more for more returns. I chose to stop.
He sent me a code. I sent that to my manager. And she paid me out on Cash App where I received my next deposit of $114.94.

Now day two is today. I did the 9 tasks. Plus the special one.
This time they put me in a group / team. They said that we needed to come to a majority vote when it comes to amounts and choosing to stop or continue.

This time the lowest amount to send was $100.00. So I sent that. Same process as day one. Except now afterwards we all voted to stop after the first trade and close out. Majority consensus.

So same thing again. Sent the code to my manger that the mentor gave me. And she sent me $189.92 on Cash App.

So far I have profited $169.83

Tomorrow is the last day of the trial period.

The manager claims that I will get $600 tommorow. Plus $10 for each task, ten tasks. Thats another $100. Plus a sign on bonus of $20.

But the amounts for the special task are $500,$1000, and $2000.

I’m thinking once I send the $500 I won’t get anything back.

Anyways. I love investigating this stuff. And am a curious person. I feel like walking away would be the best option here. But I also want to know how deep it goes. Is there really a full time gig? Or does it end once we’re here so the scammer can walk away.

Thanks for reading and look forward to your thoughts and a discussion. Goodnight ya all.

Few observations and side notes.

  1. The groups I’ve been in every day I have been unable to talk, they mentioned it in the onboarding. But there are what seems like bots responding to each task. In a way that doesn’t seem very human. And each group is supposedly on the same level. Like day one group was all people on their first day of this program or whatever. So why could they chat but I can’t?

  2. The groups admin is posting screenshots of the bitcoins deposits. I’ve seen my own SS posted. The ones I sent to my manager confirming I received the bitcoin. Some are as high as $1800-2k.

  3. I had a balance of Bitcoin/USDT on the work account I sent the 50 and 100 to. Day one I left it there and the balance went down from 65 to 0
    Day 2 I sent 15 of it to Coinbase and it never went thru. And then the other 115 of it changed to 0. Yet the mentor said to withdrawal funds asap.
    In addition the work account is a bitcoin trading website that sucks. You can’t buy bitcoin. You can only margin trade using a strange UI. It seems broken and most buttons don’t do anything. Lots of errors and it’s just a huge red flag.

  4. They are claiming to be “Datadog” and “ByBit”.

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u/Anonymous_sanitarian 4h ago

Looks legit like a scam but great findings and you have the leads here and pure observation. Ever thought reporting to the police in order to secure yourself and catching the culprit behind all this?

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u/SoulSyzygy 4h ago

Thank you. I posted this on another sub and got banned and the post removed. They claim I’m the scammer.

That’s a good idea. Although if it’s another country the police can’t do much. Maybe a federal agency

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u/PrincipleAny7097 3h ago

Seems you promoting this...

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u/SoulSyzygy 3h ago

I am literally explaining the scam. Yes I’m making money. I am not promoting it. I’m sharing details, but nothing that lets others join in. Even though apparently there is a referral bonus I will not share it.
But it will end eventually. I am going to not send anymore money, but I’d like to see how deep it goes