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| Date of Complaint | June 20, 2023 |
| Name(s) of companies complained against | Aliexpress SEA |
| Category of complaint | Cyber Crime |
| Permanent link of complaint | Right click to copy link |
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It’s an online base company that lured you in with completing 1-10 tasks a day to received commission on money that you top up or recharge your work account with. After completing it you can withdraw your money. The next 1-10 task is added and then the tasks gets bigger and amounts required to complete your tasks gets larger before you know it you have spend a larger amount of money trying to complete the relevant tasks to be able to withdraw but is unable as the amounts keep increasing. Money is paid to various different Capitec accounts of which you send proof of payment to the manager allocated to you and then the amount is uploaded to your work account to proceed with your items or orders to proceed with your tasks. They increase items on tasks so that you need to continue to recharge your work account as you want to complete the tasks to be able to withdraw your recharge amount and commission earned. They also keep pushing and reminding you that you will be able to withdraw as soon as your 1-10 tasks are completed and that the money you put in are safe and will not disappear. Will contact Capitec today and see if they can assist in freezing these accounts and maybe retrieve my money. I saw a complaint yesterday day of another lady for the same company AliExpress SEA. This part-time work was advertised on The TikTok platform where you click on the ad to learn more and then given a WhatsApp link to click on and chat to a consultant for more information. You deal with 2 person someone that help you to register on their platform and then you assigned to a manager that apply for tasks on your behalf and then load for you to complete. They allocate your tasks in such a manner that your assets exceed R5000 and start doing this just to earn between 400- 1000 a day but the tasks increase drastically with in 2 to 3 orders and commission due is much more than the initial 20% stated and that is how they push up the commission soon so much more that a 25% income tax is also due on the completion of your tasks on a commission or asset total you never considered.your initial recharged amount and commission and they know it all the time and but distract you with the big tasks that you need to complete. It happens so quickly and you only realise it when you already lost so much.
Two WhatsApp Business Accounts that I’m dealing with. Will attached screenshot of the Capitec Account information as well
Cicelyvi Nsumalo 076 575 3552
Everly Saurez 078 047 8646
This Everly Saures is using multiple numbers and claims to be customer care. The numbers they are using belong to South African citizens who have not registered on whatsapp or have stopped using whatsapp
That’s one of the numbers 072 808 4838 and the other one uses ID NO. 9006020168082 NAME- RAMSAROOP TRISHA
This Everly Saures was assigned as my manager and since I’m not completing my tasks. I received a whatsapp from another person saying my manager was fired due to the fact that she could not complete my work in time and that she/he is my new dispatch manager. I am also a victim of the so called company, the information that they supply also looked to be untrue. The company is introduce as AliExpress SEA and is a subsidiary of Amazon.com. Cannot find any information relating to this. How do we know if anything is being done about this? I lost R23 520 and if it was not for your complaint that I came across I would have lost so much more.
I just lost R18 000. I can’t believe I fell for this scam. Did any of you get your money back?
Hi Judy,
Could your bank help you retrieve the money you invested into this scam???? 😢 😭
I haven’t been scammed yet but I just felt weird when they told me to activate a different account and busy asking if i understand how the job is done and so i decided to search for this AliExpress Sea company and here I am seeing complaints. Sorry to you and the other who were scammed but you saved me from the scammers and by the way the using this number now 0627576390 and this time it Fiona
I’m so glad I came to check the reviews before going any further with this job! I was chatting to someone named Fiona
I have a pending R4000 that I need to top up in order to be paid R50 000
GOD led me here to see this.
I am crying
Will I be able to get back my last money I invested into these devils
Intrested to know if they could help you? I am in the same boat
Me too I have all the text saved plus 2 numbers Fiona and zanelle Mbowane…
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+27 83 650 8543 business whatsapp( Fiona)
And +27 78 925 4318 to Zanelle.
So I am scamed and fell for it…how do we stop these people. Both business whatsapp accounts
I am in the same boat, I’m I te rested to know if they can help retrieve the money.
There has not been a reply from the consumer complaints court. I am also waiting to hear what they intend on doing about this or this specific company. They need to cut its operation before many more get get scammed.
Do you think they could recover what we have lost financially?
I am also a victim and my manager is Vanessa and I av lost 5k and if I had not searched for it and come across your complaint I was about send R9165 to them. I saw a red flag when I clicked on recharger and it gave me a capitec account belonging to E Cloete and I lied to them that the account has an issue then they uploaded another 1 belonging to Jadams. Then I decided to search for AliExpress.
i have lost over 300k
Are you for real?
Yes, its no joke, currently SAPSis busy with an ivestigation and so is my bank, they say they have escalated the matter to the disputed transactions department and will revert back to me as soon as they recieve feedback from the external bank
Did you get any help getting your money back
I lost R12300 from the same people..stating i need to complete tasks.everytime i do it, i need to keep on recharging…..i lost R12300
Wow. To actually know that I’m not the only one they scammed is just defeating. They once told me to in order to activate my account I need to recharge it first and I agreed to recharge it, they gave me their details so that I can make the transfer and I did do the transfer but the lady who was assisting me told me that their mall did not receive any payment. I then sent her proof of my payment and she told me that she will look into it and get back to me. She never got back to me, I had to contact her again but no luck. I even consulted their customer care service about the issue of my payment and they also did the same, they ghosted me. And when I made the payment using my banking app I did an immediate payment so my money could not be reversed. I started thinking to myself that maybe I’m the one who made a wrong transaction and I wanted to do it again although I had already lost my money before but I was keen on using my last money to make that payment again until I did my research about the company and saw a few complaints. I just wish this fraudulent company could be shut down before they scam more people.
Yeses!! Guys to think that I have lost more than 300k in this company, thinking I was making money, damn, i am screwed
I was scammed today lost R6500 and now owe family and friends money as I borrowed to try and complete tasks to withdraw… Why is nothing being done about this!!! If only I saw the complaints earlier!!!
SAPS and my bank is handling the case, and the saps investigating officer said, he is going to escalate the matter to their cyber crimes unit, hopefully all of us will be helped and we get our hard earned monies back and these thieves stopped
Sadly no. My bank conducted an investigation on the different accounts that I was sending money to it was discovered that as soon as you send the money to their account they move it into a Crypto/account so that you cant reverse it. Thats why once you deposit the money they tell you to wait for verify it thats when they move it
I have also opened a case but the SAPS did absolutely nothing. Closed the case a few days later, even though I gave them all the Capitec Bank Account numbers and Names that money was paid too. SAPS made absolute no effort to contact Capitec bank. I’m a Capitec bank client and after more than two months I haven’t received any feedback from Capitec as the accounts was blocked by them. I lost R23100, hoping that the bank might at least try to get some of my money back. This scam started in June 2023 and nobody is doing anything about these people. I reported all the business whatsapp numbers that I came across because I replied to some of the TikTok ads and the moment they informed me that the company is Aliexpress SEA I reported the number to Whatsapps. This is bad and more and more people are losing money and times are already tough. I did what I was able to do, and maybe it everybody try in their own way to get these numbers blocked and spread the message.
Good evening guys
Thank you so much for the information, i was in the process of activating my account when i just decided to google the company and verify its legitimacy, i am currently chatting to a Lisa now who is requesting me to make a payment of R200 to activate my account. Thanks to the internet, and a gut feeling.
Thank you so much for your information I was also just about to activate my account and I send them al these screenshots
Hi. Did you get your money back
Just clicked on the add on Facebook. Clicked the link and it took me to whatsapp. Am talking to Anne.
I was suspicious when they sent a link and said I should register my Amazon account. Told them I already have a Amazon account obviously they said no you have to click the link🚩🚩🚩. I’m always suspicious when ppl ask you to click random links.
So i decided to Google “is AliExpress SEA a subsidiary of Amazon” and came across this. I knew it was a scam and this just confirmed my suspicions.
Was scammed by the same people on tiktok, they stole my savings, can anyone help on how we can retrieve the money from them
I also fell for the scam, I lost R4000 and was about to lose more. I’m glad I decided to Google the company before proceeding.
I just wish I could get my money back from these scammers
I lost 20k can anyone help if they were able to get their money back
I lost R20000 can anyone help if they were able to get their money back