Description

I received a text from Hannah, a recruiter for FPC National, looking for remote workers in the US. Since I'm currently looking for work, I accepted to know more about the job details. She asked for my age, my WhatsApp number, and my job preference (Full Time/Part Time/Freelance/Work from Home). I chose work from home, and was told by Hannah to check my WhatsApp in a day or two. The next day, I received a WhatsApp Message from a Sherly Tan [WhatsApp: +1 (785) 284-8660] who was notified by Hannah at FPC National, and she would then explain the job details. The company is Appshive, and the job is to help App store developers boost app star ratings, reviews and rankings. I would get paid 3500 dollars a month plus commissions (they don't say it is USDT, which I find out later) and all I have to do is "boost" 80 apps a day. She then explains how this works in very broken English and would take a very long time answering my many questions. So I go ahead and start the training with her on a separate account as the one I opened up, and all I'm doing is clicking "Start" then "Submit" on a bunch of random apps selected by the platform. So that's what "boosting apps" is apparently, just clicking two buttons in succession, and to keep doing that 40 times. She also tells me that there are apps that pay 1% and others that pay 10%, and if I encounter a 10% app to let her know but this is rare. So lo and behold, I stumble upon a 10% app, and she runs out of funds and needed to make a deposit for me to continue. To all this, she's not monitoring my training from her end, so I have to be constantly sending her screenshots of what I am doing. Somehow I made her a lot of money for getting a "package app" which is one of those apps that pay 10%, but tech support was asking ME if I wanted to deposit the money in order to continue with my app boosting. Anyways, Sherly made the deposit using her exchange wallet in order for me to continue my training, and then tells me that I made 20% of what she earned in that training, which was about 77 dollars. So we leave the training there, and then tells me to download CashApp and LBank to set up the exchange wallet on my account the next day. When I visit the site the next day, I get a big warning from Chrome saying that I'm visiting a deceptive site, that attackers on appshive-increase.com may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information. I immediately left the site, blocked Sherly and the chat group she invited me to on WhatsApp, and also blocked Hannah from my text messages. Although I see no suspicious activity on my bank account or credit cards, they did get some of my personal information.