Hoping to be financially independent, a single mother of two took up what seemed like a legitimate marketing job through a Facebook advertisement. Instead, the 31-year-old lost about $89,000 - about 10 years' worth of savings - in a week to scammers. Breaking down while recounting her story to The Sunday Times, Ms Lee (not her real name) said: 'I...
After realising she had fallen for a job scam, Ms Lee made a police report in September about her experienceHoping to be financially independent, a single mother of two took up what seemed like a legitimate marketing job through a Facebook advertisement.
She started looking for work in July 2023, and saw an ad on Facebook claiming to be from a local company, Singsale, offering a marketing role. Singsale is an e-commerce website owned by MySale Group, a subsidiary of British retail conglomerate Frasers Group. However, the transactions Ms Lee carried out were on a separate platform.Ivy let Ms Lee use her own account first to experience the system. In two days, she used $1,000 in Ivy's account to place orders and received $1,200.
Thinking she could get around $107,700 in return - a profit of almost $18,000 in a week - Ms Lee asked to withdraw her money and commission.Ms Lee said: "I told the staff member I had no more money, and I needed to feed two children. But they insisted the bank needed this 'authentication fee' as I was trying to withdraw a large amount of money."
She said these were hallmarks of a scam. The debt collector told Ms Lee her chances of getting the money back were slim, and encouraged her to make a police report.In September, the police warned of a job scam where scammers enticed victims by giving them commissions for completing simple surveys, before offering victims fake job opportunities.Victims were told to transfer money to bank accounts provided by the scammers, like what Ms Lee did.
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