Online job scam

Name of Complainant Himanshu Sen
Date of ComplaintApril 13, 2025
Name(s) of companies complained against
Category of complaint Cyber Crime
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Text of Complaint by Himanshu Sen:

Recently i was looking for job, When I came across an ad stating amazon flagship store online job offer. On seeing amazon name, without giving second thought i registered for that. After registering, on the second day, i got a message in his WhatsApp from a person named Brianna (Name changed). She explained him the job details. The Job requirement is as follows. 
Daily job is to buy the goods that merchants publish on Their platform. After the purchase is successful, the merchant will virtually ship the goods. the member will not receive the goods. After the task is completed, the merchant will settle member funds and commissions to member account”. 
As the job seems to be simple, I enrolled for it, then he has to choose a VIP level , For chosen vip level i have to pay a fee which is very small as INR 200 to 5000. As the amount was cheaper, he did not worry about its authenticity. As it was less than a movie ticket, he had chosen VIP Level 2 and enrolled for the job offer. I have been advised to contact a person named Alina (Name changed) with some telegram link who will assign me a daily task. 
On my first day , i was assigned a simple task, to purchase the items in the task assigned , For the first task i have been provided with small order with less value , which contains three items totally, total cost of the order was less than 5000. To purchase those items, he has to recharge the wallet for INR 5000 , He recharged for INR 5000 and purchased them and as per his instructor, he has to grab all the orders for the assigned task and items present in it. After completing those orders. He was provided commission for each item he grabbed. Then amount he spend on purchased along with commission will be present in a wallet of the portal. After a while, the fund in his wallet has gone to frozen state. Then after some time the frozen fund will be active for withdrawal. He waited for for a while and got his money of INR 5000 plus commission of INR 250 to his bank account after tax deducted. He was very happy that with not much effort he was able to make 250 bucks in less than 30 mins. 
On second day, He was assigned a task, He could not see the value of the items in orders before he grabs the order. He thought this also will be as simple as previous day. But to his surprise, price of the items in his task were growing gradually, Initially it started with 5000 and ended with 300000, to purchase those items he need to recharge the portal with QR code provided. sometime some QR codes were not working, Then he has to approach the instructor for guidance. So he approached Lisa (name changed ) his instructor, then she provided a UPI code using that he can recharge wallet portal. Many a times ,UPI id provided also failed , in that case they provided Account detail to transfer. Then he recharged wallet account from his own bank account, sometimes he was in lack of fund to complete the order. There was a restriction that  one cannot withdraw his fund before completing the order.
As he was already half way through and he already recharged the wallet with more than 50K as he did not want to lose that 50K, in order to complete the Order , he arranged funds from  his friends and recharged the wallet in the portal. As many QR codes, UPI ids provided by the portal were not working properly, The only way to recharge wallet is through IMPS transfer to bank account . They provided some random bank details to transfer. After transferring the amount to the specified bank account, He must provide them the Transaction id , They will update his wallet after confirming the transaction. He added payee to his bank account with the details provided waited for the payee account to get active and then the recharged the wallet and continued his task. Finally, he completes the task and earned around 75k commission for his task. Together with cost of the goods purchase and commission he earned, the account balance in his wallet become 1.07 lac

As he was finally able to complete the task,  he was about to withdraw the amount  in the wallet to  his bank account . But there comes the twist, He was not able to withdraw his fund in wallet,  He was advised to approach the a Manager telegram link. 

At last my order is still pending and they are saying if I complete that order then only i will able to withdraw my remaining amount. And amount of that order is 69500.

Kindly help to me get my refund if possible

Name
Himanshu Sen
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