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I got a text from the phone number (213) 828-5899 on July 23, saying "Hello, I'm a recruiter at TARGET, my name is Elowen. Your background and resume have been recommended by multiple online recruitment agencies. Therefore, we would like to offer you a great remote online part-time job to help TARGET merchants update data, increase visibility and bookings, and provide you with free training. Flexible part-time and full-time work, allowing you to work 60 to 90 minutes a day, 4 days a week, and earn extra income on weekends. You can work anytime and anywhere according to your schedule and earn $250 to $500 a day. The basic salary is $1,000 per 4 days of work. Please reply if you are interested". I replied affirming my interest on 7/24. I received a text back telling me that they were in charge of recruitment and asking me if I checked reviews before I purchased items online. I replied that I did check reviews prior to purchasing products. Then the reply was "This is the same as your online shopping experience. The job is logging into Targets work platform and providing 5 star positive reviews for products Our positive review data improves product rankings and increases product sales and merchants reward us with generous commissions.. You can do it easily from your phone or computer. It's not hard to understand, right?" Then they sent me a picture of a payout spreadsheet with the text underneath that said ""This is the salary form. See if it's acceptable" It showed an earnings of $7K in salary and commissions for the first 30 days. "Ok I think I've given a detailed overview of the job. Every new employee is required to go through training to ensure they fully understand the role. After you complete the training you'll receive a training bonus of $70-$130 Do you use WhatsAPP? You will need it to contact the training mentor and participate in the training. I told them I didn't use WhatsAPP and was told to download it and confirmed to them when I had done so and then got a text "I've arranged a training mentor for you. Please add her on WhatsAPP and send her a message to receive your training access. I went on WhatsApp typed in the number that Elowen had left for me - and from there on out was communicating with "Amelia" at (646) 641-2190. I did not get around to doing the training until August 1st but spent the entire day from 9:30 until 5:30 going through hoops to buy cryptocurrency and put it in a wallet and downloading apps to facilitate this process. I did not finish the training because it was so late and I was frustrated as to why I couldn't get my crypto transferred the 3rd time.. And so before I logged back in with Amelia on WhatsAPP I thought I would check into the legitimacy of this job opportunity and found it is a scam. During the training Amelia walked me through an extremely convoluted procedure and explained there are different commission rates for each tier of workers 1-4. Pictures of products from watches, to shoes, to A/C units are presented one at a time in sets of 30. You give each one a 5 star rating, and a short review on 5 of the 30. After I did the first set of 30, I was short in my account and told I needed to put another $26 into it in order to make it $100 Which I did. (buying Crypto and then exchanging it . etc ). It was during all of this frustration while waiting for my wallet to show the additional balance that Amelia began telling me about depositing $1000 into my "work account' and it would allow me to make 8% commissions and I could be making 6 figures on only around 90 minutes a day of work.... I have the entire WhatsAPP chat log saved but don't know how to attach it to this report...