Warning Scam Alert Types of Scam? How it works?

WHAT IS A JOB SCAM?
These scams often involve potential applicants receiving unsolicited job offers via messaging apps, social media, etc. Very often, potential "employers" would offer applicants high-paying jobs that require little effort.

Job scams can come in many forms and some variants are:

Affiliate Marketing

In this version, scammers will offer "Affiliate Marketing" jobs where victims are asked to help boost sales of sellers by paying for products in advance in return for commissions. Such payments are often made to private bank accounts.

Using Personal Bank Accounts

In this scam, scammers will offer jobs that require applicants to do the following in return for a small commission:-

a) Processing fund transfers by receiving money into their personal bank accounts and then transferring the money out through online banking or money transfer services such as Western Union or MoneyGram
b) Open bank accounts using their names for a business, or
c) Receive a donation into their personal bank accounts and assist to deposit the money into a crypto kiosk.

Assistant Purchasers

In another variation of this scam, scammers place online job ads for assistant purchasers, stock takers or participants for a system trial on popular classified websites like Gumtree. Participants are asked to reveal personal details like their names, IC numbers, phone numbers, phone security codes and one-time passwords (OTP). Information like this allows scammers to access your mobile phone lines to purchase online credits.

Male Social Escorts

Yet another variant involves would-be male social escorts. Victims who respond to such job ads are told they would be introduced to wealthy female clients, but only after they pay a registration fee. After payment, the scammers ask victims for other fees such as for insurance and membership before disappearing with the money.

job scam story
I received a Telegram message from a recruitfirst agent (anna lim), asking if i needed a job, which i did at the time. She then directed me to her "client" (xue ping)

Xue ping then pestered me for a few days until i decided to go and just try whatever she has to offer. After running through what i will be doing, she invites me to a group named "Xue ping", where the group members were all posting their withdrawal amounts and what they're having for lunch, making it seem very believable.

The task was rather simple, just to click on "create data" and "submit", which was supposed to be done 42 times, in order to withdraw. Somewhere along the 26th task, the account wallet was insufficient. She then instructed me to send a request deposit to her account by contacting another whatsapp account, ( +65 8946 4823). It even was a business account, making it look even more believable.

Multiple times while doing the these tasks, the websites went down saying it was suspected as a scam website by the police, and I was offered with a new link with the excuse of " dear, this is because our company is imitated and used illegally by others, so in order to cooperate with the police so that others are not harmed, so this link is closed and updated to ensure the safety and smooth operation of the system, please wait a moment, we are sorry for the inconvenience and will upgrade the latest website link, thank you."

It all seemed really fishy and I wasn't going to put money in. Anyway, so I checked online and it tallied with another article on this website.