In this case, the investigation revolved around one of the modalities most used today by crime to achieve ill-gotten benefits: the job offer in the Home Office modality, promising great benefits with the ideal scenario for practically any worker in the world: without schedules, with large earnings for few hours of work and without bosses to control them.
This is how the investigated group initially operates, or at least the telephone numbers and contacts in the Telegram network that are used to carry out these activities.
It is worth highlighting that the use of Telegram It seems to be the constant in these operations, perhaps due to the ease of using chatbots that these groups use and that you can be located without having your phone number.
The mechanism
The first contact is through a WhatsApp message with an invitation to work and earn money online through a very simple activity: like some videos that will be sent, so that with just this action they offer from 50 to 100 pesos. , is the so-called “hook”.
Once this activity has been carried out, they ask that the communication be transferred to Telegram, since they argue that it is in that network where all their infrastructure is located to carry out the tasks that will allow them to earn a lot of money.
Once in Telegram, the idea according to them is to continue working through this simple task; that is to say, like the videos that they send you, since according to them, the makers of said videos pay them to boost the visits and likes, so that the traffic on the network is increased, the way in which they receive in turn benefits.
Once inside this mechanism, according to them, you become an employee and start earning money, the tasks also begin, which effectively initially consists of liking the videos that they put on their Telegram platform, with the difference that they already They do not pay the promised 50 or 100 pesos, but 20 pesos for each “task” performed, as they call the action of liking the videos.
It is then when the second phase begins, the one that leads to fraud. They present a task on a platform through which the “worker” must deposit in the account of a Mexican bank and a national person, at least in name, a certain amount that can vary depending on a table that is presented in the same platform and that we consign below.
According to the instructions of the platform in Telegram, with this box a “task” must be carried out, which consists of depositing money to the account and bank in Mexico. The first deposit can be made using the first option, but on a one-time basis, the already used option can never be used; that is, a person can only deposit between 300 and 500 pesos in the “task” for one occasion, then they have to choose the second option of between 800 and 1,000 pesos also for a single occasion, and so on.
In theory, that money is only deposited momentarily and then the platform returns it, with an additional profit ranging from 30 to 50 percent of the amount deposited. And so it happens on the first occasion, but there is a trick.
At the time of depositing the platform, it asks to do an additional task and the “worker” is referred to a “main tutor”. In this part, and always under the guidance of the ‘main tutor’, the worker is asked to enter an address that leads to a cryptocurrency buying/selling site such as BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, DODGE/USDTLTC/USDT and a wide variety more. As per the instructions, the worker is guided to purchase positions in these cryptocurrencies, and once acquired is supposed to finish the task, apparently.
The “Main Tutor” asks for time to verify that there are no more “pre-stored tasks”. If there are none, then the money is supposed to be returned, but there are more pending tasks, so the “worker” must make another deposit for more money because it is a “requirement” of the platform, with the promise that the resources will be they will return.
The problem is that it is not known how many “tasks” the platform will request with the promise that the resources will be returned, so that the “worker” could deposit truly important amounts until he refuses, that is when the “Tutor” and the “Receptionist” say that if you do not continue depositing, the deposited resources will not be returned, and that they have no idea how many tasks are required to be done because the system says so. The fraud is consummated.
How many people lose their money daily due to this fraudulent mechanism? We do not know; In our investigation, those who responded to us via Telegram claimed that there were hundreds or thousands of people lining up to test their working method.
We do not know if there are even people who deposit the maximum amount requested, which is 150,000 pesos, with the promise of a return of capital plus 50 percent, as long as the system does not say that there are more “tasks” that must be completed and then another 150,000 pesos must be deposited, in case of refusal there is no way to recover the initial deposit, if it was to be recovered.
transnational fraud
HIGH LEVEL investigated the links of the company used to carry out cryptocurrency purchase/sale operations: heng888.com
This link takes us to a lottery sales site through different modalities, based in Thailand; We also investigated the acronym MBN and apparently they are the acronym for a cryptocurrency called Membrana, which has a current value of $0.000051 and has no currency; that is, it is one more cryptocurrency in the digital world, but they do not exist in reality.
Violations of Mexican financial laws
These types of platforms, in addition to defrauding people, violate the laws of the country by carrying out operations to attract resources from the investing public without having the required permits. As we pointed out, the platform requests that resources be deposited in a national bank and in the name of a person of apparent Mexican nationality, to carry out operations in the cryptocurrency markets, if these operations are carried out. The reality is that they disappoint people.
When the investigation was carried out, the Telegram channel had just over 9,000 subscribers at that time, the truth is that it is not known how many are real, and how many of them are defrauded.
Internet jobs through which you earn a lot of money in a short time and with little work do not exist, they are a fallacy. The mechanism mentioned above is one, but there must be many more through which every day those who fall are defrauded.
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