Description

Received a text from Qadvance Staffing offering a remote part-time job as a “remote online evaluator”. The description said that it was for 1-2 hours daily, and could earn from $******* a day. Did my research online and it “seemed” like it was okay, so I answered yes and was contacted by a person named Jennifer, who only asked me how old I was. I told her I was 49 and then she proceeded, to tell me "Thanks for your time! Your information has been logged. The relevant persons will reach out via iMessage ASAP. Please keep an eye on your notifications. Have a wonderful day!". Two days later I was contacted by a person named Molly, who was going to be my trainer. She explained a little bit about the hours and pay and asked if I was still interested, to which I confirmed. We started the training, and I made $**** which I left $*** in the account and was able to withdrawal the remaining $**. Then we continued with the training the next day (job consisted of doing 2 sets of 40 assessments. You would leave $*** because you would be purchasing items online so that those products would get more online presence. She explained that companies paid them to do this, such as small companies trying to get a start so it seemed legit). 2nd day of training I we went through the same process but I did everything through my “workstation” (first day was via her training station). I got a “bundled” purchase where they join two purchases together and you earn more commision on it. This is where the scam came into play but was not yet aware of it. I had to put in my money $******, then afterwards I was able to proceed, finish the tasks and that day after leaving the $**** I withdrew $******. This is why I thought it was legitimate work and I kept going until the 5th day when they deposited $1000 to the account to use for purchase. Molly showed me that I would get an allowance every 5 days, each time getting bigger allowances.

But this is where the scam came into play, they hit me with three bundled purchases, (which I had to put in money, each one going higher and higher, and finally the last one before withdrawing I had to put $*******) they also made me think I “won” a bonus of $*********, because the company was "randomly" giving out bonuses because a company had awarded them with $************. and they would be sending them out to their employees until it ran out. Molly told me she got one for $******. So, when I went to withdraw, it said to contact CS because I could not withdraw more than $10,000.00 for being a VIP1. I did and they gave me a link to an external Customer Service via Telegram, the one I used to get the bonus deposited to my work account, but to the Finance Department. They gave me these weird instructions and I locked the account. When I asked them, they asked if I had followed the steps, I told them I had, but apparently had missed one. So now I owed them 35% of what was in the account to unlock it and retrieve my money. I was lent all this money by my mother and husband, the last and final amount was from my mother for $*********. They guided me step by step as to how to do the withdrawal because since it was such a big amount $********* that I had to do it via Crypto Exchange. I had tried doing it via Crypto.com, but ran into an issue there and had to do this via the exchange. I copy and pasted the Ethereum address into the workstation but since it was almost 10pm, CS told them we had to do the transaction the next day.

The next morning, I verified the Crypto exchange address again to make sure that it was correct, contacted Customer service, they told me to go ahead, but the system said that I couldn’t withdraw more than $******. Contacted them again, they checked and told me to log out and back in, did it hit the withdrawal and waited. After more than half an hour, I checked upon, Molly’s request, and there it was in red “rejected” When I contacted Customer Finance service they told me that I had put in the wrong number. When I verified there was a completely new address one that I didn’t recognize, and when I questioned them, to this day I haven’t received an answer only that to check the history, which I did, and to send them a screen shot and they circled that I was missing the last digit. I asked them how that could be if I had pasted it directly from the site and had DOUBLE checked it before submitting the withdraw and it was correct. They only asked me if I had proof, which of course I didn’t. and that without proof I had to deposit 60% of the total that was in the account to unfreeze it. I kept talking to them ALLLLL day (10/25/25) and could only lower it to 45%. I wrote in the company's group chat if anyone had this happen and one person said yes. He said that he was almost to the point of ******** when I checked who it was, it was someone from the Admin group!!!!! CS told me to ask my family and friends to get the money! I told them no, they insisted a few times even told me to sit down with my husband and have a serious talk to him about getting the funds to unlock my account!. I don’t want the money in there I want the money that my mother lent me and my husband. ($*********) The bank even warned me and I feel so stupid for falling for it but times are so tough right now!!! I was desperate for money so that I could help my husband pay the bills. He told me quit working back in Oct 2024, so that I could study to get a better job, and now this happened. I just wanted to help him, and my mother was gracious enough and trusting to lend me the money and now I can't even look her in the face.