Scammer tried to offer me a fake job
Anonymous | 31 May 2023
Job Scam
A person with the online moniker "Ng Yu Han" initially contacted me through Facebook and expressed interest in being friends. Afterward, they added me on WhatsApp. Within two days of chatting, they shared how much they could confide in me and expressed a desire to be in a relationship with me. They mentioned feeling unwell and requested my assistance in fulfilling some orders for their part-time job.
This "part-time job" involved placing orders for Louis Vuitton products as part of a sales campaign. They claimed that a third-party merchant would reimburse me the principal amount plus a commission for any orders placed, with no physical delivery of the products. Although I voiced my suspicions about the scheme, they assured me that this was a common practice in e-commerce to artificially boost their sales figures.
Subsequently, a "Louis Vuitton Customer Service" WhatsApp account approached me to place an order on behalf of the person. The first task involved clicking on a product link and sending a payment of $95 to a PayNow number.
Knowing that this was clearly a scam due to multiple red flags (such as the unrealistically high commission, a multinational company resorting to inappropriate means, and payment to a Singaporean PayNow account for a luxury brand), tactics I had read about frequently on Straitstimes/Mothership, I anticipated that the scammer would increase the value of the tasks and commissions in an attempt to exploit my greed, starting with the $10 commission as a hook.
Deciding to play along with the scammer, I used my phone to alter an image of a previous PayNow transaction record and sent it to the scammer (please note that I never sent any actual payment). The scammer acknowledged my "payment" and sent over the rebate and commission. However, they later realized their mistake after verifying the details.
At that point, the tone of the person claiming to be my lover, "Ng Yu Han," abruptly changed and they requested that I stop talking to them and not contact them again.
Editor's Note: We would like to advise users not to engage with scammers but instead report and block them on the platform that they are using to communicate with the scammers.
This "part-time job" involved placing orders for Louis Vuitton products as part of a sales campaign. They claimed that a third-party merchant would reimburse me the principal amount plus a commission for any orders placed, with no physical delivery of the products. Although I voiced my suspicions about the scheme, they assured me that this was a common practice in e-commerce to artificially boost their sales figures.
Subsequently, a "Louis Vuitton Customer Service" WhatsApp account approached me to place an order on behalf of the person. The first task involved clicking on a product link and sending a payment of $95 to a PayNow number.
Knowing that this was clearly a scam due to multiple red flags (such as the unrealistically high commission, a multinational company resorting to inappropriate means, and payment to a Singaporean PayNow account for a luxury brand), tactics I had read about frequently on Straitstimes/Mothership, I anticipated that the scammer would increase the value of the tasks and commissions in an attempt to exploit my greed, starting with the $10 commission as a hook.
Deciding to play along with the scammer, I used my phone to alter an image of a previous PayNow transaction record and sent it to the scammer (please note that I never sent any actual payment). The scammer acknowledged my "payment" and sent over the rebate and commission. However, they later realized their mistake after verifying the details.
At that point, the tone of the person claiming to be my lover, "Ng Yu Han," abruptly changed and they requested that I stop talking to them and not contact them again.
Editor's Note: We would like to advise users not to engage with scammers but instead report and block them on the platform that they are using to communicate with the scammers.
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