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Employment - https://www.booking-bk.com

This is Laura talking to me and "Guiding" me. Our job is to help hotels optimize their operations on the Booking platform: increase rankings, positive reviews, and booking rates. The hotel will pay us commissions and salaries through the platform. The purpose of this work is to help increase engagement and promote hotel rooms nationwide. The salary structure of this job is base salary + commission (commission is paid daily) The base salary is paid 4 times/month: Work 2 days and you will receive $100. Work 5 days and you will receive $800. Work 15 days and you will receive $1500. Work 30 days and you will receive $3800. Simply put, you will receive a base salary of $6,200 per month. Total 100+800+1500+3800= $6200 Work is calculated on a daily basis and the basic salary will be divided into 4 payments on the 2nd, 5th, 15th and 30th day. Since Booking is an international company and their optimized users are all over the world, they make it easier to pay their optimized users, they agree to use cryptocurrency payments. Pre-employment training can help you better understand the job description and our compensation structure. It costs you nothing and can be rewarding. After the training is complete, you can decide whether you want to join the job or not. What do you think? To receive your first $1000 salary, you need to complete tasks for 5 consecutive days. Payment via e-wallet account. As a data optimizer, you need to log in to the Booking work platform to register your work account. Our daily tasks are completed through this work account. I will send you a link to the Booking workspace. https://www.booking-bk.com Please make sure to remember the account information you set up during registration. After completing registration, please send me a screenshot This is the referral code please wait a moment, I will register a training account with your invitation code. Because when using your invitation code, your personal account will also receive 20-30% bonus I will register an account to guide you and then you receive and work on your personal account This is the training account that I registered with your invitation code. You log in to this training account. After successfully logging in, take a screenshot and send it to me for the next steps. Username:Booking0030 Password: Laura456456 Scroll down and log out of your account and log in to the account I sent you Now you click on (Mission) 01/30 then send me the screenshot and we will check the balance of the training job account together You are awesome, $251.22 is the profit after completing 30/30 tasks from this training account. You can calculate to check the profit: Deposit bonus: $280 Commission: $251 That is the profit of a task set when your working account starts with $4000 This is just 1 round of quests. There will be 3 rounds of quests each day. So in 1 day I will earn more than $1,800. Right? The platform offers two types of earnings, one is the regular optimal earnings of 0.7% and the other is the combined application package earnings of 3.5%. You can calculate the combined and regular tasks as follows for example: Combined task $1,500 x 3.5% = $52.50 Regular task $1,500 x 0.7% = $10.50 If your account has a combined order, you will receive a 3.5% commission for the combined order. There are combined orders with sufficient account balance for this combined order. But there are orders where your combined account balance is not enough (if you suddenly get a negative number), you just need to temporarily deposit the amount to complete this combined order and complete the task. Then you will be able to withdraw all your money As I said at the beginning, your training account was registered with your invitation code, so your account will receive a 20% bonus. Now log out of your training account, then log in to the account you registered at the beginning to check your balance. Then I will guide you to withdraw money to your wallet. Congratulations on completing the first round of tasks, because in this training you can earn from 50 to 100 dollars. But unfortunately in this round of tasks you only get 67 dollars You can use Trust wallet because Trust app is easy to use and transaction is also very smooth when you transfer money to your bank account it will not take too much time. Please click here to copy the receiving address, And then open the Booking app and follow my instructions. Please click here to link your withdrawal address 1: Paste the wallet address you just copied 2: Set a 6-digit withdrawal password (Please remember it) 3: Confirm the withdrawal password again Follow the instructions to create a withdrawal order on the system 1: Select all 2: Enter your withdrawal password 3: Select confirm But according to the Booking system's regulations, the withdrawal amount must be at least $101 to be eligible for withdrawal. Therefore, you need to complete another round of tasks to have a balance greater than $101 to be able to withdraw all of this amount. You just got 67$ from the training. Now you just need 34$ more to get 101$. Then refresh the task round 2. After completing 30/30 tasks you will withdraw 101$ + commission. Working continuously for 2 days like that you will get 100$ salary, 5 consecutive days you will get 800$... $34 is your money. But today you just need to spend it once and you will withdraw $101 + commission + salary. Do you agree to spend $34 more to have a stable and long-term job? Every day you can earn $120-500 And the $34 you added is only temporary then you withdraw all the commissions you earned and the $34 you added before ME- I need to add $34. of my own money. Correct? Laura: Yes ME- No thank you. I asked at the beginning if I needed to pay my own $$ to do this and you said "no." Laura: Remember that this is just a temporary addition, the account is still yours and the money is still there. ME- I just put in 3 1/2 into this under false pretenses. No thank you. Have a nice life. ME- This is a one time fee of $34.? LAURA - Yes you just add temporary as i told you before and when you add $34 you complete the 2nd set of tasks and are eligible to withdraw to wallet so you withdraw to wallet yourself ME- If I send you $34 through my wallet, does that give you access to my bank account? Laura - Because this is a legal job also approved by the government so you don't have to worry too much. The next day - You just need to add $63 to your Booking account to make the negative number positive then complete the combination task and then withdraw the full amount ME - All of this happened in less than a week. Then Laura said there are "Combined tasks" where I have to add more money. I was in a 30/30 task. When it got to 14/30 I was instructed to deposit $616. to finish the task to get over $3000. I put the money in. I got 7 - 21/30 more tasks done before ALL of that money was gone. Laura- For the $616 you put in to balance you then get back $2879 ME- Well, I didn't get through the task from yesterday. It is now saying I need to pay 1452.47. ME - You wrote this to me on Monday. So it isn't true "You don't need to worry about getting more combined tasks. Because the system rules say that you can get 1-3 combined tasks and this is your 3rd task. Moreover, these are also the last tasks in your task list, so you don't need to worry at all. You can withdraw all the money in your account quickly after the task is completed." I think this is my 5th Combined task." Laura - Always remember that there will be 1-3 sets of tasks combined in one day and this is also random from the system so if you are lucky enough one day you will receive 1-3 big lucky tasks like this. Laura - You go to the bank to transfer money to this account. The amount you transfer is $1500. You just ask the bank to transfer the money. They will ask you some questions and you just answer that the money is for personal use. Because your bank is not crypto friendly. You just ask them to complete the transaction for you. Don't think about the money you spend, think about the money you will get back. That's what I used to do, because when you think like that, you will be very discouraged. This is my quiting point. I'll probably never get my $$ back. But I hope to spare others from getting involved with this scam. This man's name was stamped on the booking.com certification on the platform I was instructed to use. Glen D. Fogel Booking CEO

Dollars Lost: $800

Norwalk, CT- 06854

Date Reported: June 15, 2025


CryptoCurrency - CryptoCurrency

i was contacted by a group on whats app they used a plateform nammed vipdscf and were investing in crypto nammed cft in which i have also joined i invested 29k in that to make some profites but when i withdrawl it my money was freezed by there plateform,and they turned off their mobiles

Dollars Lost: $29000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 13, 2025


Investment

I wanted to open a tik tok shop and I supposed to pay the supplier. So I sold a ear pod and got 222.00 in my wallet but, I was heavily suggested to use crypto withdrawal. So I agree and haven’t got paid only saying that I need to pay 140.00 for a second order which I haven’t got paid for my first order.

Dollars Lost: $32

CA

Date Reported: June 12, 2025


Employment - Employment Scam

I was contacted through social media about a remote work opportunity involving “optimizing product data” on a platform called BRIGHTEDGE. The job was described as simple, requiring daily tasks with promised commissions. At first, I was asked to deposit small amounts of cryptocurrency to begin the work. After each task, I was told I had to deposit more funds to “unlock” earnings or complete something called a “Joint Product Order.” Each deposit led to another obstacle — like fake system errors or “negative balances” — and I was told my money would be returned once the process was done. Eventually, after depositing over $15,000 CAD, I attempted to withdraw my balance. That’s when they claimed I needed to pay an additional 40% fee to access a “large withdrawal channel,” which was never disclosed before. This was a classic advance-fee crypto scam using fake job tasks to manipulate victims into repeatedly sending money. The scammer attempted to take as much as they could while delaying or denying any actual payout.

Dollars Lost: $15000

Ottawa, ON-

Date Reported: June 12, 2025


Investment

They start with smaller amounts, you deposit money and "promote" car ads. I believe they are just using your WiFi/location for a new audience to see the ads. It seems legit because you do make profit and can withdraw money, but you have to deposit extra money when you run into something they called an Auto Alliance Agreement (AAA), which is promoting multiple car brands together. If you are unable to deposit the funds between 10am-10pm Eastern, they drop your credit score on their website (0-100% is the range). My credit score dropped to 81% and I was no longer able to withdraw money. My account balance was over $500K and to boost the credit score back to 100%, you have to deposit 30% of your account balance. For me, that was around $165K, which I did not have. I invested about $350K and was supposedly going to be able to withdraw $500K, until my credit score on the website dropped to 81%. It was profitable, but I got greedy and bumped up the amount I deposited, ran into an AAA and that requires you to deposit more funds. Essentially, my money is now stuck in the platform and I will not be able to withdraw unless I deposit the 30%. I figured taking the loss of what I already deposited was enough. I am pretty much broke now. Another factor is, your credit score drops again every 7 days, so even if I came up with the funds to "get my credit score restored", it would have to be within 7 days and then the dollar amount needed to restore the credit score would increase. They give you a "mentor" via WhatsApp, mine sent me pictures of dinner, told life events, and added me to a groupchat of other users on WhatsApp. If the people aren't real, they sure do a good job of pretending to be. People would send their profits and other things to make it seem realistic. BTC or ETH are the two forms of crypto they accepted.

Dollars Lost: $350000

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 12, 2025


Investment

I met a lady named ruby lin online we started talking about crypto and learning how to invest and she was teaching me step by step how to invest and showed me where money was going and invested her own money also to grow and invest more, when it came time to withdraw she stopped responding and so did the so called customer service. There was no way for me to withdraw funds into my crypto account and the investment account showed profit of over 170000 and now way to withdraw funds

Dollars Lost: $5000

Boston, MA

Date Reported: June 12, 2025


Investment - Investment Scam

This person hacked a friends face book account and messaged from their account pretending to be them, claimed they won the lottery and invested in Crypto - was trying to get me to add bitcoin to their website - https://union-marketpoint.com/index.html They have a place to upload ID please do not upload or Join their website. There are other reports of this company on reddit, some people have lost 170.000

Dollars Lost: $0.0

Unknown Location

Date Reported: June 11, 2025


Employment

I was contacted by a lady named Emily via text (her number is 682-210-1756) with the offer of a job that paid very well and only took about an hour per day. I have been fighting stage 3 cacer and also had some issues in my brain, and had to have mutiple surgeries. This has affected my business over the last 3 years so my. wife and I were actively looking for a side hustlle to help make up the short fall. I agreed to the juob and was told the following pay structure: The salary system is a basic salary + commission profit form. Commissions are paid on the same day, and wages are based on the sign-in date. Basic salary is paid the next day, $100 on the second day, $800 on the third day. $1500 on the fourth day. A total of $2400 per week So I did the first day of training and completed the tasks. I had to complete 3 sets of tasks a day. Each set was 30 tasks. It was pretty easy. After the training i was told i needed to have at least $101 in my account in there system and I was $37 short so I needed to send $37 of crypto into my "account" to unluck the tasks. Honestly this red flagged me and I actually called her out that it was looking like a scam. I wish I had followed my intuition, but the lure of the pay was too big in my current situation and so I sent $37 of crypto in and that unlocked my tasks. I completed all the tasks and could withdraw my $133 that day. The next day I used that $133 to recharge my account and completed all the tasks. at the end of the second day I was able to withdraw $469 and I though this was great. I hadn't even reache the day 3 or 4 pay yet. So on day 3 I sent back in the $469 to unlock my tasks. I was 3 tasks away from completeing the 3rd set when I got a task that required me to deposit $1500 to complete the task. at this point I was promissed a $2,800 commision if I completed the task and I could withdraw everything at the once all the tasks were completed. I again thought this was a scam and unfortunately did ot follow my intuition, so I sent in the $1500 and completed that task. The very nedt task was what they call a lucky task and required me to ad an additional $5800. I did not have that amount so I asked what would happen if I did''nt complete the task. I was told that I would not be able to withdraw any money unless I completed the task. I decided to cut my loses but my "mentor" kept pressuring me to borrow money from freinds or family to compplete the task and I would be able to draw $13,000 at the end of the day. I couldn't do it though as I simply did not have the money and I was not prepared to borrow any oney for this, so i just logged out and did not complete the task. I am assuming that I cannot draw my money out now as I have not completed the task. of note, I was added to a whatsapp group where there were 32 people iin it and there was lots of discussion about how long people were in this "job" there was even discusion over havving to decide if we wanted to be on 1099 or W2. Everyone kept calling these huge tasks "Lucky Tasks" and they were worth a lot of money. Anyway, so I ended up losing my $1500 and I am reporting this in the hopes it helps in the google search. I did do a google search n whether this was a scam, but nothing came up. When I looked into Sensor Tower it seemed a legitemate business that was charging money to help apps rank better in app stores. A lot of the tasks were recognisable ames like, Olive Garden, Microsoft and other big names. I truly hope this helps at least 1 person and keeps them from getting scammed. I have multiple screen shots of the process if the BBB or anyone else needs this.

Dollars Lost: $1500

San Francisco, CA- 94114

Date Reported: June 10, 2025


Romance - Crypo

Scammer messaged me on Facebook, then FB messenger. She suggested I download and use WhatsApp. We connected on WhatsApp and she described herself owning a fashion design studio in San Francisco. She also mentioned Bitcoin trading interests and offered help me make profits in trading Bitcoin with an initial $2,100. She guided me through the setup process and had me download Crypto trading and wallet apps and set up the accounts. Step by step she walked me through all of it and seemed to have an interest in my life. She explained that there are a lot of scammers using her pictures but she was not a scammer. We traded pictures and chatted about various things and eventually she suggested a video call. Scammer looked like the girl in the pictures, (but thinking back it most likely was an AI filter). Scammer said her Uncle has a group of people that trade on NESBITTCO.COM and offered me the opportunity to join them. It started out OK, We made some trades and it seemed i made a few hundred dollars per 30s trades.. She showed me screenshots of her trades and profits of larger amounts and suggested I add more funds to trade with. all seems normal at first, I wired $50,000 from my savings account to Strike (a bitcoin buy/sell app). Scammer walked me through the process of sending the funds to the trading website and it went from there. Scammer offered to front $72,000 from her bitcoin assets for me to trade with also. seemed very generous, so I went along with it. After trading for a month I needed to withdraw funds, Scammer walked me through the process and it worked. I was able to withdraw and return $10,000 to my bank account. All seemed good. We continued chatting daily, watching videos and movies at the same time discussing them after.. We would node trade 1 or 2 times a week as time went on. In February she suggested I get a home equity loan for trading and making even more profits and just pay it back after a month. I ended up doing this for $191,000, (very bad decision) One day the trading site stopped working, scammer assured me my funds are safe, and it was just a domain name change. Scammer gave me the new name and it was working again. The website did this 4-5 times total ending on FRBIT.CC. I decided to withdraw funds in the amount of $65,000 a day in April and she walked me through the process step by step. Once I hit OK it was done and she said I just have to wait a few hours or 24h at most (they never arrived). The next day she suggested I contact customer service and ask why the funds haven't arrived yet. BIT customer service claimed that an error in the receiving address caused an anomaly with my account and I needed to pay $65,000 to fix the issue within 7 days. (Scammer said she had never heard of this issue ever before now) Since just about all of my funds were stuck in this FRBIT.CC site I had to come up with $33,000 and scammer offered the rest ($32,000), however it was not in the 7 day allotted time. Scammer assured me we were good. Customer service then said I was required to pay 1% of the total amount in my account before my account could be used again ($29,969) late fees. Scammer promised she would help with this, but never did. I managed to come up with $10,000, and she promised the rest. She then claimed a tariff issue caused her to have to use Mexico or Canada to get past the fees on stuff from China, so she used $7,000 of her $20k. Scammer promised the $13,000 was for me to use only, nothing else. She walked me through paying the 10k and another $7k to BIT customer service again, and when she was supposed to transfer the rest, she claimed her bank card was frozen and could not do anything with her funds. Scammer claimed the bank and accused her of money laundering and froze her account. Scammer also claimed her uncle was being targeted for espionage and was under investigation by an MP (all lies). She then left me to gather the $13,000 to restore my account. I refinanced my home equity loan and came up with the funds , but by this time FRBIT.CC stopped working and I could not access the site.. Scammer assured me this was normal, and she would get the name. After a few days she told me the new name, www.cbocn.com or (CBMWW.COM.) After creating an account she said I just need to verify by uploading me CDL and everything will work after I pay the final $13,000 late fee even though the site was totally different. What choice did I have if I wanted to retrieve anything at this point. She had me contact customer service on the CBOT site and they said i need to pay the "funds". went through process again, and paid the $13,000 (final mistake). I attempted to withdraw a small amount and it has yet to go through, just says "confirmation in progress". its been a week and customer service stopped responding altogether.. This person has caused me a to be in a financial mess. I hope one day they are caught and tried and convicted. This has caused me major anxiety and I doubt I will ever recover. I know it was a big mistake to trust this person, the script this scammer followed on me worked too well. She has contacted me less and less over the timeline. Scammer then came up with that I have to pay %10 taxes on withdraws made from the CBOT site in order to prevent people evading paying taxes on withdraws. total lies, but I found out that that is the last part of this type of scam and I will never get my funds back. This has been a nightmare. Crypto trading is all a scam to me now. Please help. I'm dreading filing taxes in 2026 now as this is the worst nightmare ever.

Dollars Lost: $400000

San Francisco, CA- 94133

Date Reported: June 10, 2025


Employment - employment

I typed my name on phone number on a online job offer. They contacted me through whats app. The job entails of submitting fake reviews on products, when the account receives a negative balance, the agent (me) wires money to get rid of the negative balance. The agent then receives a commission which can be cashed out. My first round the mentor Natalie, put in the money, and I withdrew about 300 dollars. Seeing that I don't have a summer job this year I decided to give it another go. I ended up wiring 7,500 dollars. I was supposed to cash out 27,000 dollars, but they added another product to the previous product giving me a negative balance of 16,000 dollars. I can not pay that amount, and felt cheated because I had done my 40 tasks, and they did not pay me, but instead added on another order. They cover themselves well, upon reading their user agreement it does explain the super orders. This "job" requires you to buy crypto currency while transferring money to the wallet addresses, like erc,-20 and btc.

Dollars Lost: $7500

La Palma, CA- 90623

Date Reported: June 9, 2025


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