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Brenda Pais from President Youth Program hired me as an administrative assistant. They said they are a new organization assisting foreign exchange students to visit Canada and Winnioeg is their new location and will be putting up an office here in March 2019. I followed up with her as to when the office in Winnipeg will open and said they are still looking for a location and will give me update soon. She gave me 1st task to create a slide about nice sceneries in Winnipeg and submitted to her. Second task was to create a slide again about accomodation options for the exchange students to stay for a week. But before I had finished the 2nd task, she called me and said that there will be set of students that will be coming to Winnipeg the next week and they need to pay the reservation of the hostel via cash and needed my help to pay (transferring the payment to my banking account) to the hostel. I asked why they can't just transfer it directly to the hostel's account and said they (hostel) don't accept e-transfers, and so I agreed. She said they'll e-transfer the money via email and so I gave my email address. She said she will give me a call again to give instructions and so I waited. The next morning she called and then confirmed that the money has been transferred and then gave instruction to withdraw the money and go to a place and once I get there she will callback again to give me another location. This made me question but I withdrew the money and sent her a receipt for confirmation. I asked for the name of the hostel but she didn't respond. This time, it made me starting to worry. Why she can't just directly give me the name of the hostel and exact address and pay it? I did not agree to go to that place. I searched the place but there was no hotel/hostel nearby. I made excuses to not to go to that place because I'm not sure what or who is waiting there for me and also, I'm new to Winnipeg. She said on that place, I can deposit it to a machine. That blown my mind and I asked a lot of questions and then told me she'll call the hostel and will call me back. After minutes, she called me back again and said I can just deposit the money to a bank in any branches. She gave me an account name and account number. This really gave me chills. Brenda said at first they won't accept e-transfers but how come now she instructed me to just deposit it to someone I don't know!! To me, all I think of that day was just to get out of that mess and hell don't want to do that again. She kept calling me and asked if I have already deposited the money and said it needed to be deposited ASAP to confirm the reservation payment. It took me time to deposit the money since it is not right anymore. I wanted to get out of this mess asap! And so I went to this bank and deposited to that account Brenda gave. I sent her the receipt to confirm the deposit and said she'll contact me again and give update. From there, I did not contact her, I was just waiting for her to contact me just to at least give me idea what was that all about. It was all sudden and she even kept me hanging. The day after had passed and still no message from her. I never tried to contact her after that incident.

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I applied using Indeed.ca and was contacted by the "Company" HR department telling me that they were looking over my resume to see if I would be a good fit for the job. I was then contacted by HR again with an employment contract. The contract stated my pay, that I would be working from home, and that I would be creating opportunities for students to travel from all over the world to Canada. I was then told to use Telegram in order to communicate with my "boss" Brenda Pais. I received my first assignment which told me to create a presentation about my home town or province and to include activities to take part in. The second assignment had me find hotels that would be in a lower price range for visiting students and finally my last assignment had me find International University Student opportunities. During the two weeks I had worked for the company I was contacted by my employer and told that I needed to make payments to a Hostel in Halifax by using a BitCoin machine. The money was transferred to me then I was asked to put the money in the BitCoin machine and send photos of the receipts. I was asked to do this 5 times in the span of 3 days. During this period I was told to track my hours as they would calculate the hours at the end of a two week period and then I would get paid. I never received any money and a few days before the "payday" I was cut off of all communication from my boss and I have not heard anything since. I am not the only one to go through this, I have been in contact with two others who fell for the job opportunity. The contract seemed very real and legitimate and it is a regret taking this job.

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I was contacted by this business that I applied to on indeed saying they would like to hire me for an Ottawa office that was to be opened in March. It was a company helping forien exchange students plan and set up trips to Ottawa, and for now before the Ottawa office was opened I would be completing assignments for them like presentations on Ottawa tourists attractions and accommodations. I started with them February 11 and started working on my first assignment, putting in many hours and once my presentation was handed in they praised me for how great it was!... I started working on my second assignment and then they asked if I would go and pay for hotel reservations for a group coming into town shortly, they sent me the money and I paid for what I thought were hotel reservations! Apparently I just laundered money for them! I don’t understand how people can live with themselves doing this to other people!!! So now I have no job I thought I did I’ve stole money from some poor innocent person, spent 50 hours of my time working on presentations that were fake and I will never be paid for my time or work! ??

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Wish I read BBb article on scams beforehand as all red flags are there.(Great article)

Was told resume was found on indeed. Did a very short phone interview and received a job offer on Friday Feb 1st to start on Monday Feb 4th. I accepted.

I asked for tax forms on Monday feb 4th and was told I would receive them this week. Also their website is very low quality (logins can’t be created, etc). Suspicion aroused but it was a job. For payment information I provided an email and opted for etransfer payments. no bank info was provided.

On Tuesday 12th feb, I received an emergency call followed by correspondence saying one of their employees got in a car accident and I was needed to help complete a payment. The lady over the phone said I had to make a payment at a Calgary hotel for a reservation that had not been paid for. $3000 was sent to me via Interac which I deposited into my account. Address I received led me to a bitcoin atm at signal hill. At this point I had no more doubts and was sure it was a scam as there are warnings all over atm machine. (Thanks Calgary Police)

Went straight back to the bank to report incident deposit funds into my account. I imagine the Interac will be reversed soon.

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