Online Parttime Job Scam - www.skyscanworking.com

 Online Parttime Job Scam

In this story Cyber Criminals used “www.skyscanworking.com” website to cheat Cyber Victim.

One day Cyber Victim received a Telegram message to his mobile stating that we are looking for people to promote our company website as well as to increase our Flight ticketing website traffic for visibility.

So, to do this job we are looking for some people across the world who is willing to work as a part time employee.

 So, initially cyber victim ignores their messages, but every day they keep on sending multiple messages and give multiple calls in his Telegram to convince him. However cyber victim did not respond to their messages and calls. But cyber criminals did not stop sending message and call instead they started sending more messages and calls regularly. Finally, one day cyber victim picked their call and listened what their product and what exactly the work. As part of the conversion, they ask cyber victim to join their free demo session to understand their product and how much time needs to spend on their website. Also, cyber criminals explained how much they paid for each task as a commission.

 After the demo cyber victim did not give any response to cyber criminals. But one day they send telegram message for asking him to share his mobile number to create a demo account. Cyber victim shared his mobile number. After some time, cyber criminals created the account in their website and sent the login credentials to his mobile number. Also, added him in Telegram channel and introduced him in the group. In the channel there were multiple members already exist and the existing members stared interduces themselves and explained how much they earned on this website for doing a simple task.

However, the cyber victim did not start work on the site, but once fine day cyber criminals called and informed him one of our senior managers will call you and explain the basic points to start the work. So, next day he received a call, and in the call, they explained what to do on the website as well as how to complete the demo task. As explained in the call cyber victim completed the demo task and informed them in the Telegram channel. After the completion of demo task, again cyber criminals called and informed that you have successfully completed you demo task, and now your account converted to paid account. So, now onwards you can start earning money on our website for doing a simple task.

The task

 

The task is to book tickets in their website. Each day they will give 3 rounds and each round needs to book 27 tickets and total 81 tickets in a day, and they will get paid accordingly. After completion of each task, they ask to report their customer support team to validate and reset the account for next round. Here is their customer care Telegram channel Skyscanner_operation their group @𝙎𝙠𝙮𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 5797. So, cyber victim seen the remaining members activity for one week and contacted Customer Support for start doing task.

 

So, Customer care team ask cyber victim to deposit 10,000 for start doing the task. Hence, cyber victim deposited Rs: 10,000 INR (Ten thousand Rupees) to given account number and shared the payment screenshot with them. They confirmed that the payment has been received and informed cyber victim to star booking the tickets in their website i.e., https://www.skyscanworking.com/login.

 

After received the confirmation for cyber criminals Cyber Victim login their website and booked 3*27=81 tickets and informed to Customer Support team for process the deposited amount i.e. 10,000 INR along with Commission i.e., Rs: 7795 INR. So, they ask cyber victim to add his bank account in their website to transfer the total amount. He added his account in their website and informed to cyber criminals. After 30 mins they deposited Rs: 17,795 INR in cyber victim account.

 

Next day cyber victim reached Customer Support team to do the task. So, cyber criminals again ask cyber victim to deposit 10,000rs INR to their bank account. So, Cyber victim have deposited amount and started doing the task. But while booking the tickets cyber victim received a message “Congratulations! You have encounter Business Class Airfare! Please contact Customer Service for further information”. Hence, he reached Customer Support team to understand what exactly the issue. And they confirmed that your booking ticket is upgraded to Business class, and it will happen 1 or 2 times in a day and to continue your bookings they ask cyber victim to deposit 27,216rs INR to complete the task. So, cyber victim deposited the mentioned amount and completed the task. After completed the task he informed to customer support team to deposit the amount. The total amount along with commission is Rs: 46,956rs INR. After one-hour cyber criminals deposited amount into cyber victim's account.

After two successful transactions cyber victim trusted that this is genuine process and i can earn more money by doing simple task. Hence, third-day cyber victim contacted Customer support team for ask cyber criminals to sharing the bank account details to start doing the ticket booking task. So, Cyber Criminals shared the bank details and cyber victim deposited the amount and completed 2 rounds of ticket booking and started doing 3rd round but he received a message stating that your account upgraded to Business Class ticket and asking to deposit Rs: 48,858 INR to continue bookings. So, Cyber Victim managed to deposit the amount and started booking the tickets. But after one ticket booking again received a message that the account upgraded to Business Class ticket. Hence, cyber victim reached Customer support team for asking why the account upgraded multiple times. They said it will happen 1 or 2 times in a day and need to deposit Rs: 1,39,310 INR to continue the task. So, he deposited mentioned amount into multiple accounts and started booking the tickets. However, after booking two tickets again he received account upgradation message and this time they ask him to deposit Rs: 3,66,586 INR. 

Cyber Victim arranged Rs: 3,66,586 INR and transferred to cyber criminals given accounts. After the payment they confirmed cyber victim to continue the task. As they confirmed doing the task but again the account was upgraded and this time, they asked to deposit 10,06,361rs INR. So, cyber victim contacted to them and confirmed that I don’t have money to deposit and request them to refund all the amount. But they are not agreed and ask him to deposit full amount to withdraw the deposited amount along with commission. So, finally cyber victim has arranged the amount and deposited into cyber criminal's given accounts. After deposit the amount they ask cyber victim to complete the remaining work to withdraws the full amount along with the commission. So, he was finished his work and submitted the withdraw request in their application worth of Rs: 22,20,616 INR along with my deposited amount as well as commission. But cyber criminals asked cyber victim to deposit another 11,10,308rs INR as a security deposit to withdraw the full amount.

So, final he understood that he was cheated by cyber criminals. Hence, he contacted to Cybercrime department to log a complaint.