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Was looking for extra money for Christmas and got contacted by someone who claimed I could make money watching and liking videos on you tube. Tasks were daily and all had to be completed to get paid. First day was great watched 10 videos and got paid $20. I was so happy I told all my friends about it. The 2nd day was videos at first but then it lists task 5-6 as lucky mall tasks and I am given 3 options where I had to use my money to buy crypto. To which I bought it 4 times that day for a total of $120. The last task concluded and they sent $198 to my acct. I was hesitant but hey I got back what I put on plus $78. The next day is when everything fell apart. The first couple tasks were the liking of videos and then hit a lucky mall for 160 which I was really hesitant about but also knew that the day before I had done the same thing and gotten paid so I decided to do it. Keep in mind once u do one u have to do each one after that til they tell u no more orders for the day and then us when they pay out the day yo u. So I did the buy for 160 and everything was five. The next task was to buy up 380 and buy the coin they needed my too 380 is alot of money but like I said I had not had any problems so far. I bought the 380 and that is when it started to go bad. They said I made an error so in order to get my payout had to redo the $380 buy. At this point I just wanted out but also wanted my money back so reluctantly I purchased another 380 and all was good and I could see my money in my “work acct” but inky they could send it to me and once all the tasks for day were done I would get it. Watched a couple videos fir the next tasks and then another lucky mall came up. Thus time it was for $1230.00. If I wanted paid fprevioys I had to complete it. I’m freaking out at this point but I don’t to get my money back. I rounded the money up barely and did it only to find out I made a mistake and would need to complete their repair order to make it right. The repair order was for $3360 and that point I’m freaking but I tell them there is no way I’m doing it. Of course they let me know numerous times of the money I would be losing but told them no. We exchanged some not so nice messages and left it at that. They always maintained they did not take anything from me that the money was in my work acct and “ was” in this work acct but there is no way for me to get it out of that acct. they have to send it to me. So of course I’m freaking because this was suppose to be extra Xmas money and I was totally scammed and robbed.

Dollars Lost

$2300

Targeted Person's Location

IA, USA - 52404

Scammer Information
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Unknown Location

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(535) 556-1857

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Telegram and phantom and exglobalex

Scam Type

Online Purchase

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Business name

Uphold hq inc Impersonator

Date Reported

November 7, 2025

Scam ID

1098962


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