He was 'hired' by a recruiter and cheated of $24k in three days in job scam

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SINGAPORE - When he received a Telegram message on Dec 29 last year advertising a data optimisation job that required only two hours' effort a day, Mr Lee thought he could make easy money.

SINGAPORE - When he received a Telegram message on Dec 29 last year advertising a data optimisation job that required only two hours' effort a day, Mr Lee thought he could make easy money.

He was told it would increase the sales of a furniture company overseas, and that he would be working for a marketing software company. He had to complete 45 orders every day by clicking on two buttons on the site, which he was told would optimise data of the"furniture" items.When he first started clicking the buttons, the website showed that a few hundred dollars were available. It was not his money.As he could not proceed with the data optimisation task, Mr Lee asked Mei Juan for help.

By the end of the first day, he had topped up the account with $266 of his own money, and earned $140.

 

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