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An alleged recruiter reached out to me via text, offering remote work (with relatively high daily pay and no interview process). I expressed my interest, and shortly after, someone claiming to be a trainer (who went by the name Megan) reached out to me and explained the company’s operating model. She said the work is aimed at helping partnered merchants increase product exposure and boost sales, and that employees (users of the platform) earn money via commission by promoting the merchant’s products on the platform. The trainer explained that users are expected to use their own funds because the merchant’s products require real transaction data, and that any money deposited via crypto would be credited to the user’s work account, which along with commissions earned during the day would be available for immediate withdrawal after completing missions in a queue (so ostensibly no money lost). Although I earned over $700 after the first two days of using the platform which were deposited into my bank account via a crypto wallet, the biggest red flag came on my fifth day of completing missions on the platform, I received an $8,000 bonus which I was told was a part of the company’s campaign to give back to users, and when completing my last set of “missions” on the platform, I received three “merged products,” which I was told are items with higher commission rates because merchants pay the company additional fees to optimize these items with low product performance. However, merged products bring the work balance into the negative (sometimes by a few hundred, but other times by thousands), and users are expected to make deposits to bring the balance back to positive to complete the missions before withdrawal. And although I have thousands on hold in this work account, I refuse to make another large deposit to access the funds. I looked up the company, and found out these trainers were pretending to work for Moosylvania, an actual marketing agency registered in the state if Missouri. Their official business website is moosylvania.com, but these scammers’ website is an imitation with the web address work.moosylvaniaweb.com