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Hi my name is ****** ********. I'm a single mom who's worked as a waitress for the last 5 years. Unfortunately 2 weeks ago I got into an argument with my manager and walked out. Being stubborn I started looking for other jobs literally filling out around 100 applications online a day. Maybe 2 days in ai got a call about a job that would be perfect beings it was a remote job and paid well. Actually paid too well which made me suspicious but I went online and read everything I could about the company and it seemed legitimate. So I took the job as a Digital Marketing Specialist and started my son called training. The main part was to upload 3 sets of data everyday and that part didn't pay much but after a couple days you would get a $200 salary, a couple more days $800 salary then $1000, $2000 and $3000. Basically over $7,000 a month plus the profits from the upload of the apps. Now granted the profits from uploading the apps weren't much but that was fine I was good with the $40 $50 a day. My account was one of the lower accounts which meant every day I would have to upload $100 in Bitcoin to start my day but after I was done with uploading my sets I could withdraw the money every single day so I would always get the money back. Well I didn't make it very far because the woman training me kept telling me how great this combination data was because that meant that one of the companies needed money or their company needed the money for that company I don't know but basically you had to upload more Bitcoin but you would get a profit of it and I was told that it would be a signed according to how much was in your account so that you wouldn't get assigned a $10,000 combination data when you have $100 account. that was told how great it is to get a combination data because they're rare and you can make money off of them and then when you did get one confetti would go off on the screen and it was great because yeah within a couple of days I had made you know five or six hundred dollars which is great for me because usually I don't make but six or seven hundred a week. And evidently yes they are assigned according to how much is in your account well I made it through the first week which means when I started my set that day I got my $800 salary. But bright tech also did bonuses all the time I was always getting like a $30 bonus well that day I got a bonus of over $900 which I thought was fantastic. So at that point I had the $100 I had loaded up the $800 I had gotten paid and over $900 in salary so my account was higher than usual and I was given a combination data of around 2 to $3,000 luckily one of my best friends has lent me and money a couple of times so that I can do the combination status this one was I'm thinking two $3,000 so at that point my account was around $5,400 and of course my phone dies because it has been dying a lot doing all of this online so I didn't even get to finish my account that night. I had gone out to buy a backup battery for my phone and a better charger so when I turned on my phone that day I was thrilled because when I was looking at my account I realized that I had made about $3,000 and I was 80% done with my work so when I hit my next upload the confetti went off again and a combination data came up of $3,300. Well at that point let's just say I was out of money I'm a waitress I don't have a lot of expendable income I had already been out of work for 2 weeks so $5,400 was everything I had in 1500 I had borrowed from my friend. So I called the person who trained me to explain that I wasn't going to be able to pay for this data but since she loved combination data so much and some of the others why not one of them take it? At that point it was explained to me that once it was assigned to me it was mine and if I couldn't pay it then I couldn't finish my set for the day. If you do not finish your set for the day you can't withdraw your money. so for the last 3 days my profile has had 5400 in it and it's just sitting there everything in this world that I have minus maybe $300 that I had left and I have tried everything in the world including trying to get like 30 loans but you know what I'm not rich I don't have good credit I actually didn't live that great of a life until the last 6 years in which I have worked my ass off to turn my life around. As a matter of fact I was a horrible person but my children were getting older and I didn't want them to know me as that person so I packed up everything I owned in the hotel I was living in I moved into a tent and I completely started my life all over again now 6 years later yes I may only be a waitress but I have a nice decent car I have an apartment I get to see my children I have a normal life that most people have no idea about my past after all I don't much look like the person that I used to be. So when I went to customer service and explain to them that I didn't have $3,300 more of course I was given a let's say very rich white person answer which was that why don't I do some fundraising because of course anybody I know should have $3,300 sitting around right and it's only takes 10 minutes to give it back to them so it should be easy for me. So unless it's a teenager selling candy bars I don't think anyone in my world has ever said the word fundraising. First who has funds second who's stupid enough to ask someone else for the money that they don't have to begin with. Then I was told that this company had made it very clear and very transparent that I was responsible for all of these combination data and that if I couldn't pay them I couldn't get the money I had put into the account. So now it's halfway through the month of November I've got about $200 over $2,000 a month in bills meaning more than likely I'm going to lose my apartment my car and my children will most definitely not be getting presents from me. I have read everything I can on this company and in no way no shape nowhere am I seeing anything that tells this. As a matter of fact I've archived every conversation I've had with the woman who trained me and all I was told was how great combination data is because you make hundreds of dollars and just a second I was never not once told that if I could not pay it I would lose everything. So now I'm trying to figure out who I can contact because I can send you every single thing that I have my job description which never mentions this, my profile showing the money that I have put in there that I can't get back out I mean basically everything that I have and nothing nothing said a word about being responsible for me paying these out of my pocket and that I would lose every penny I had put into the account if I couldn't. And all I want right now will actually what I would really want is my money back out of the account but since I can't get that I would like to know who it is that I contact so that I can make sure that they can't do this to other people I mean really to rip off a single mom in the middle of November who's more than likely now going to lose everything and whose children are already upset because I haven't seen them all week. My son just tried calling to check on me and my mom chewed me out because she said I shouldn't have answered the phone if I'm crying because they get upset when I'm upset and now they're really going to be upset because I don't know what to tell them how do I tell them I've lost everything. So if you could please get back to me because at this point yeah I'm calling a lawyer and writing who I can because I may have been naive but that's no reason for them to take basically everything I have to rip me off I mean they have this great website they make all this money why do they need mine? And if I can upload the money and then guarantee to have it given back why couldn't they pay it to begin with? But now I understand why the job pays so well because some people make great money and those who don't have all that expendable income lose what they do have but I will attach I guess screenshots of my job description as they gave it to me my profile the salary description all of that. If someone could get back to me it would be great because really I don't even know who to contact because it can't be okay or legal to do business in this way to not tell anyone or not warn them while they're putting thousands into this account that there's a good chance they're not going to get it back it's a job it's not gambling I would have never gambled away my children's Christmas money I thought I was doing a job that for once I could go and get them a home for Christmas and they can have their own bedroom for the first time ever ****** ******** ************

Dollars Lost

$5400

Targeted Person's Location

SC, USA- 29142

Scammer Information
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Unknown Location

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(441) 273-6259

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https://www.brightec.co.uk/

Scam Type

Other

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Business name

Brightec

Date Reported

November 12, 2025

Scam ID

1103448


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