I wanted to earn a small amount of money, so I created a Fiverr profile and published my first gig. Just seconds after it went live, I received a message in my inbox asking me to review my gig using a link that didn't seem suspicious at the time.
When I clicked the link, I was redirected to a website that looked almost identical to Fiverr. It even displayed my Fiverr username and the gig I had just created. Since everything looked convincing, I didn't check the URL.
The page showed that my gig was in a "waiting for approval" stage and asked me to add a payment method to proceed. I went ahead and entered my debit card details, including the card number, expiry date, and CVV.
After that, it asked me to add ₹20,000 to "activate" or verify the payment method. That's when it finally hit me — this was a scam.
Fortunately, I only had around ₹12 in my account (roughly $0.10), so there wasn't any significant loss.
Be careful, everyone. This was extremely convincing.