YouTube Channel Promotions Scam
One day Cyber Victim received
a WhatsApp message from unknown person and during the conversation he said our
company is looking for people who can help them to increase their YouTube
channels visibility. He said the company name is “Adnet Global Marketing”, and
the company is offering digital marketing service like YouTube Channel promotions,
social media pages promotions and etc. They claimed that their company is
providing digital marketing services all over the globe and the company is
having number of clients across the world. While discussion they said the company
will be paid for doing a simple task. The job is to like and subscribe the
YouTube channels belongs to their clients. Also said everyday they will give 25
tasks and will get paid for each task accordingly.
Next day they (cyber
criminals) add him in a Telegram group where the tasks are assigned. They asked
him to post the screenshot after the completion of each task and after successful
completion of 3 tasks they will get paid. And cyber victim completed 3 tasks
successfully in first day and shared the screenshots in the Telegram channel. After
some time, he received a message for someone for asking him to share his bank
details to transfer the amount. After 1 Hour he received Rs: 1000 INR to his bank
account from unknown account.
Second day Cyber victim
contacted in Telegram Channel to do the task and this time they ask him to
deposit Rs: 1000 INR for registering an account and they said the amount will
be refundable along with commission after the completion of 3 tasks. So, he transferred
the mentioned amount to their bank account and completed the tasks what they assigned.
After completion they transferred Rs: 2,300 INR to his bank account. And again,
in the same day cyber victim reached cyber criminals to do extra work. But this
time they asked him to deposit 6,000 for doing 2nd task. Hence, he
deposited the amount and completed the task. This time they transferred Rs: 10,675
INR to his account.
Similarly, they were keep
giving such prepaid tasks saying that the merchant wants to complete all the
tasks to get full profits. And currently they have different tasks, and each task
worth will be different. Here are the task amounts they showed in their app (48,600,
48,000, 48,100, 50,000, 50,000, 10,000, 14,000, 1,00,000, up to 18,73,311
lakhs). They said your work quality is good and merchant wants to assign
dedicated task and also assigned manager to monitor your work quickly and get paid
the amounts faster. If you want to start doing above wort of tasks need to pay
the deposit amount to continue the task.
To do all the above tasks
cyber criminals asked cyber victim to deposit Rs: 6,98,600 INR. Cyber Victim deposited
the amount to their bank accounts and completed the task in one week and tried
to withdraw the total amount i.e., Rs: 15,50,000 INR. But the cyber victim unable
to place the withdraw request in their application and received a message saying
that due to incorrect account verification your account got locked and you cannot
withdraw the earning amount RS: 15,50,000 INR. He scared about losing the
amount and requested them to give a solution for withdraw the amount.
Hence, he contacted customer
service to unlock his account. They verified his account and asked him to pay Rs:
3,87,500 INR to unlock the account. So, cyber victim paid the mentioned amount
and ask them to unlock the account.
After unlocking the account cyber
victim tried to place the withdraw request but he was unable to place the request.
So, again he reached customer service and explained the issue. They said that
to withdraw the total amount need to pay withdrawal fee of Rs: 3,11,111 INR
post which you will get total earnings along with deposit amount of 22,48,611
INR.
Cyber victim manged to pay
the withdrawal amount of Rs: 3,11,111 INR and tried to pace a request. But this
time he received a message stating that you have to pay the advance personal
tax of 6,90,000 INR to withdraw the amount. So, he contacted customer support
and informed about it. They said that is mandatory and you have to pay the tax
amount to get your total amount. He said I don’t have money left to deposit,
and he requested them to deduct the money from his earning and refund the remaining
amount. However, they were cyber criminals and did not refund any money once they
taken.
After multiple follow-ups finally,
cyber victim understand that he was cheated by cyber criminals and lost all his
hard earning money worth of Rs: 20,87,211 INR. Hence, he logged a complaint in
Cyber Crime police station and currently investigation is in progress.
