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Scam Details#

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Notice: The rate for sending the script has increased from RMB 3 to RMB 8.
           Completed forms have increased from RMB 90 to RMB 160.

👍👍New rates: RMB 8 for each script sent; RMB 160 for each customer who completes the form.

Detailed instructions:

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1. WhatsApp is a mainstream social media app overseas, similar to WeChat. We need to attract leads manually: I will give you designated phone numbers, and you will send them our recruitment advertisement as a follow-up. Like Telegram, WhatsApp does not require you to add someone as a contact; you can message them directly if you have their number. You earn RMB 3 for each script sent. Then send the customer a form; if they complete it, you earn RMB 90.
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2. Buy an established US WhatsApp account. It must be an old account—newly registered accounts get banned instantly, so do not waste your money. An account can normally be used for more than ten days without being banned, so there is no need to worry. If you do not know an account seller, customer service can recommend one.<br>（We mainly target US leads, so the WhatsApp account must be American. Do not use accounts from other countries.）
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3. Set the account name and profile picture. Ask customer service for them. You must change both, or your work will not count.
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4. Follow our scripts and designated lead data strictly. Anyone submitting fake orders can try us—we will deduct everything.
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5. All lead data is scraped from local recruitment-advertisement websites. They are all people interested in part-time work. We are simply conducting a follow-up, and roughly 3 out of 10 attempts succeed.
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6. Add the contact and send the script to earn RMB 3 per order. Then send the form to the customer; if they complete it, you earn RMB 90.
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7. To submit an order, provide one screenshot of your chat with the customer. That completes one RMB 3 order. Send the customer a form; if they complete it, you earn RMB 90. If they do not, you only earn RMB 3. Even one account can generate a minimum daily profit of RMB 800+.
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8. Work is available 24 hours a day, and results are better at night.

Scam Summary#

The entire scam was riddled with flaws. I had analyzed some of them while researching the project beforehand, but apparently I was still too naive. I thought the project’s only exploitative aspects were the website’s commissions and the way task earnings were split. I never imagined that the project itself was merely bait, and that its ultimate purpose was to lure me onto that website. Perhaps the project manager also runs the website, or perhaps they are merely a referrer, but that no longer matters. What matters is that they led me to the website, and my desire for money led me to send them money. That completed their entire profit loop: entice people who are short of money, desperate for money, or hoping to get something for nothing into paying, thereby transferring the money into the scammers’ own accounts. To steer people toward the most expensive package, they even set up 24-hour customer support. Honestly, I’m moved to tears.

（Fuck, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. They are even more voracious than a Pixiu: not only do they swallow your money, but they also make you work for them and pull even more people into the scam. That makes them even more ruthless than people who launch rug pulls. Apart from outright honeypot schemes, those people at least put in a token amount of money and wait until the price can no longer rise before running away. In that sense, the blockchain really is the most transparent environment. If someone tries anything, it remains permanently recorded on-chain, and you can identify whoever scammed you. Off-chain, you might get scammed and still be helping the scammers count their money because of an information gap.

The scam’s entire business model is therefore to have people lure others who want money onto their website. Once someone pays through the website, that money can no longer be withdrawn. Most people do not notice because they make a purchase immediately after topping up their balance. The scammers then arrange for people to discover that they cannot log in after buying an account, leading them step by step into spending more money in the order of account → dedicated-line IP → data-center IP. Since I did not go through their entire fraudulent process, I do not know what other traps they use later. I can speculate, however, that withdrawals of referral earnings might still work on the website. That would allow them to turn victims into downlines who recruit new users for them.（Come to think of it, the cheapest products on their website are Telegram accounts, so even if you want to become one of their downlines, you still have to give them more money first? That is fucking ruthless.）Of course, even after people earn money by recruiting new users, the scammers might not let them withdraw it directly. They could first impose a high withdrawal threshold, then apply an unfavorable RMB-to-USD exchange rate and steep fees, causing people withdrawing smaller amounts to lose as much as 20%–50%.

（Thinking about it this way, this environment is even worse than the crypto space. Even in crypto PvP, there is at least a shared understanding that you do not dump immediately at the beginning（dumping on paper hands is another matter）. Here, after you give them your money, they psychologically manipulate you into working for them because of your sunk costs.

Of course, it is possible that what they ultimately provide actually works, but in reality none of it should cost nearly as much as they charge. There were also problems with the customer service representative’s answers. They used terminology such as “dedicated-line IP” to capture people’s attention and make them think that the “dedicated-line IP” being sold was fundamentally different from an ordinary proxy or VPN. In actual use, however, there is no real difference between the two. The only differences are the IP address being used and the route through which the connection travels. So when I showed customer service my Shadowrocket configuration, how could he tell at a glance that I was not using a dedicated-line IP? He performed no tests and simply declared it as soon as he saw the image I sent. That was the first flaw in his story. The second appeared when I contacted him using a new account. Even if the same customer service representative happened to answer me, he should not have immediately treated a different account as the previous customer. Incidentally, if he assumed the person messaging him was me, does that mean I was the only person getting scammed recently?（Honestly, that is a little sad. Sob.）In addition, judging from various details, the customer service account and the technical-support account may have been operated by the same person. When I pretended to be another user, he clearly failed to react immediately. He may have logged out of the technical-support account, switched to the customer service account to confirm what was happening, and then switched back. The technical-support account went offline for a minute or two, appeared online again, and then went offline once more. Together, these two flaws pushed my distrust of them to its peak and helped me identify all the things that had previously felt off. Perhaps they really do have products, but now that I no longer trust them, I will not buy anything else from them. Some of their products are also outrageously overpriced, and I have no reason to be a lamb led to their slaughter.

In the end, the main reason I fell for such a crude scam was that their bait stirred up my desire for money because I was short of it. Even though I researched the project beforehand, I decided to treat the money as potentially lost to a rug pull and enter first to see what happened. The result was exactly this: once I was involved, the sunk-cost effect took hold, and I invested far too much more. Thinking about it this way, as long as the lure of easy money remains, it will continue to influence me and make me invest more. Therefore, I cannot trust myself.

The lesson from this experience is that, as a human being, I will inevitably be influenced by various desires. If someone uses one of those desires as bait to guide me, I am certain to be affected. At such times, I need to use reason to restrain myself. I should first consider the investment’s rate of return, the safety of the principal after investing, and whether the project’s investment path can genuinely produce returns. Furthermore, even if the project is genuinely viable, I should consider whether other projects offer higher returns, require less work, and provide better overall value. In any case, I hope I lose less the next time I get scammed. Come to think of it, perhaps my ability to remain this calm after losing money to a scam is something the crypto space has given me: the belief that even if I suffer losses now, I can still earn the money back later.