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Description
They had positions up on either LinkedIn or indeed first social media manager. I applied and they told me all that was left was a payroll position if I was interested I said yes. And they said they would be willing to train. He then asked me to get Telegram and chat with him on there. He told me I had to download this app called adept banking. It looks like a web page and several of the buttons didn't work but he kept sending me information and asking me to process payments on it there was no cancellation button so it seemed a little weird to me and then he told me that people would be contacting me when they required their pay so I had to download another app and I was getting messages to put payments through. But I had to tell them that they had to put in money into trustwallet in a cryptocurrency Bitcoin to be able to get their money for the job they worked. I asked why and he said that's just how trust wallet it works. When it came time for me to get my pay I put my trust wallet information in, because I believed I heard other people doing it, and they said they got their pay and money in crypto back, within moments of the money being processed. it was taken out and then I was told that because it took so long to process my payment I had to put another $600 us which is approximately $1,000 Canadian in to be able to get my pay. I asked the guy if he could cancel it my payment and return my money. And he said no that I have to make the other payment and I'm the banking payroll manager so I should know how this works. I had only been making a few payments over a few days. For them. He offered me $2,000 a week. Which seemed too good to be true for the small amount of work that I could do for my phone. I should have known. I never got my money back
Dollars Lost
$1000
Targeted Person's Location
ON, CAN - L0L 1L0
Scam Type
Employment
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Business name
Adept limited remote employment
Date Reported
March 3, 2025
Scam ID
953373
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