Just wanted to share a new scam that I came across posing as a job on linkedin. I didn’t get scammed but played along to see how far the rabbit hole goes.
This post has been taken from Reddit and edited slightly to fit my story - the scam is essentially the same.
What seems to be a side job to promote NFTs online on minitfy.
I applied on linked to a remote job on LinkedIn and was contacted by the recruiter who said that the position was filled but that he had something else, someone else would contact me on Microsoft Teams.
The person contacted me and onboarded me without any interview and talked about training for 15 days as a trial period and then a legal contract according to legal regulations, the person doesn't asked any questions and just go on explaining the "job" with what is surely prepared answers and regularly ask you if you ve understand everything and if he needs to explain.
Then the job itself revolves around a platform/website "mintify nft"
you need to create an account using a code given by the "recruiter" (from now on scammer)
you create your account with basic info name, phone, email, age.
the scam is presented to you as promoting NFT where you are required to promote NFT simply by clicking on a promote button for 2 sets of 40 NFTs.
Your earnings are made based on the commission that you make when you promote an NFT by clicking on it. Most cases you get 1%, in rare cases as the scammer describes you can earn 6% to 9% of the price of the NFT, these are package NFT that are more expensive but gets you more commission, they come in package of 1 to 3 NFTs, I,e. 1 package can be a single NFT, 2 NFTS, or 3 NFTS. For these "special NFTs" you need to add money to your balance to progress to the either finish the package if only one NFT or progress to finishing the package if 2-3 NFTs. You must finish your set if you want to withdraw your balance + commission
The catch
Crypto is used to promote NFTs for that scam, so you need to buy USDC or ETH through binance then wire it to metamask then send it to the mintify platform.
you need an initial capital of 200 USDC (crypto) to start a set and earn commission, and you can only withdraw your balance and earning at the end of each set.
You can do two sets per day from 11am to 11pm
at the beginning, say day 1 to 3 you can earn money and withdraw you earning that you need to wire to your binance account and convert, provided that you have some cash aside say 1K to play with.
The scammer encourages to put money on the platform as you can withdraw it after you finish the set + the commission.
when days go on or after the 3rd day, you need substantial amount of money to progress and finish sets (from 1K to 10K).
I couldn't finish the set as the amounts got too importants and unreasonable and have Xk aed blocked on this platform.
There seems to be no way to get my money back and I was able to confirmed that this is a scam when contacting dedicated local authorities. Also some of these might be illegal and punishable.
Just wanted to share this so nobody desperate gets scammed. I know the job market is saturated. The number one rule to remember that there is no such thing as easy money.
I was offered a base salary of 6k aed with 300 commission daily for two hours of work.
