Fiverr impostor tricked me into funding a skin site

A bbb report about a impersonation scam that cost someone $995.82. Learn how to avoid falling victim.

I had opened up a Fiverr account in order to sell my admin services as a way to make money. I had never used Fiverr before, so I wasn't sure what was legit or not (upon asking ChatGPT, found out that it was a scam). Fiverr's spoofed chat said that in order to verify my payment method to receive the funds, I'd have to deposit money into a bank account that's trusted by them, as my debit card wasn't working. So I opened up a Wise Canada bank account and transferred the funds from my Scotiabank bank account to my Wise Canada bank account. Then, after the money was deposited, I noticed that the money was being paid towards this Skin.Club merchant. I have contacted Wise support, who said to contact Skin.Club, which I did. They looked into it and determined it to be fraudulent transactions and had blocked that user, but said that according to their return policy they don't do refunds and suggested for me to contact the authorities and that they would be cooperative if they get a letter from the bank or authorities. Yet the bank did try to contact them to recall the funds, but they just aren't responding to that request.

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