Fake Remote Job Turned Into a Review Scam

A reddit report about a impersonation scam that cost someone $669.0. Learn how to avoid falling victim.

If it's not a scam I don't know wtf this company is actually about. I found someone advertising remote part time anytime work and from there I messaged them, which led to them moving it to WhatsApp and continuing to message there...suspicious but ok I'm desperate I'll keep an open mind. They never discussed pay or even what the job was before I was in some training session where they take me through their site. The site looks professional and nothing about this appeared on Google as a scam except that Digitas is a reputable ad company or something. So after a few days, the trainer has me log into her account where I press a few buttons, send pics of what I see back, and she tells me a bunch of jargon that makes absolutely no sense to me....what I can gather is I'd be posting fake reviews for a bunch of companies and then paid per "commission" and in the training round there's 50 initiatives, which are all the same...just press the button a bunch of times and leave 4 or 5 stars for a bunch of weirdly-named companies. I was getting bored of clicking the button over and over waiting to get to the end so they can tell me what the job is all about really. Good thing I didn't have to wait too long though because at round 12/50 of clicking the buttons, suddenly something new popped up! Instead of being told I made a few dollars from leaving the review, now I got a warning screen saying I was -$669! And there was a button "recharge" to presumably fill it up with money. So at this point I understood what the scam was probably going to be if I kept going, told them this is boring just get to the part where you tell me I have to put my own money in to cover an unexpected deposit but don't worry you'll pay me back. She denied I would ever have to put my own money in, but I'm thinking maybe they would foot the bill themselves for a few days as some of those "glitches" come up, so I get more invested in the act of doing this and then they'd spring that on me to keep going with my real money. I also ran a whois on the site and found it was made in February of this year. And again, it was a well-made site, had many functional sections and no typos. AI is scary, they probably just made it all and the profiles who contacted me from nothing. Anyway, left their group chat and blocked them. Digitas appears to be a real company and these guys must be pretending to be them. Or else Digitas is actually run by aliens who communicate through WhatsApp with convoluted logic and I just missed out on the easygoing job of a lifetime.

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