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I responded to a Facebook ad about a clerical job. There was a "trial period" which basically consisted of spending money on crypto-currency, with your "mentor" encouraging you via Telegram -- the mentor is a very good actor, pretending he/she is genuinely interested in you and cares about your life. And they tempt you by dangling a big payoff at the end of your "trial" period, but this payoff magically never shows up. I was told I would get the big payoff -- as much as $100,000 -- if I completed a set of ads -- that is, "deploying" them. But I kept getting "Hot Properties"/"Advanced Properties," which you are supposed to deploy by investing hundreds and then thousands of dollars. Don't have the money? No problem; your "mentor" says -- just borrow it from your friends and family. The mentor even pretends to help you by allegedly investing some of their own money too, but I have the feeling that's part of the scam -- that they could make the appearance of investing money when they really weren't. So I stupidly kept borrowing and investing, until I finally deployed a whole "set" of advertisements...and then lo and behold, I found out that I couldn't access the big payoff promised at the end. I "took too long" to deploy the advertisements and now my credit within the system was too "bad" to be able to access my funds. I had to purchase credits in order to improve my credit enough to get the payoff promised me if I completed a set of ads. No problem, said my "mentor" again -- just borrow the money. Like, $30,000. I finally saw the light. I stood up to my "mentor" and said that I completed the set of ads; I was entitled to my funds (with which I planned to pay back the people who lent me money). The "mentor" pretended to care and said, "We'll solve this," and reminded me that she had "invested her own money" into my "success" as well. (Which I don't believe; see above.) Of course, her idea for "solving" this was the same as always -- borrow the money. I was fand am furious with myself for falling for th is blatant scam. If you are contacted by this company, or contact them on your own thinking it's a legitimate job, RUN FROM THEM. Their big payoff, if it even exists, is always kept dangling in front of you. They are there to take your money.