Oyster Property Group

Victim Location 94565

Total money lost $4,700

Type of a scam Employment

I’m stay-at-home mom and I was looking for a job from home. I found this job (data entry website project) on UpWork app. Ive got hired and this company (oyster property group *** ** *** ***) sent me a check of $1950 to buy supplies to start working but the check got cancelled because Wells Fargo Bank placed a hold of the founds. After they put $500 in my credit card and asked to buy amazon gift card. I did and send them picture of it.

On may 31st I’ve received a check of $4.700 from them by FedEx express. I deposited this check trough Wells Fargo ATM (*** *** *** *** ** ***) and the founds was available on 1st of June. That same day I went to the bank because they told me to and I got $4000 in cash. Then they asked me to go to the nearest Bitcoin ATM (*** *** *** *** *** ** ***) and transfer this money to the account that was given. Also they said I can keep $350 for myself and transfer $350 to somebody through Zelle.

They could not receive the money for a few days and asked me to contact costumer service of atm by email and forward all messages to theirs email ([email protected]). Representative asked me to send all my personal information such as SSN, picture of ID, phone number and where the transaction was made, I sent. So they know my personal info.

On 4th of June I received the email from Wells Fargo that says they are going to close my account because of one or more checks deposited to or cashed against my account suspected to be counterfeit and I have to pay this amount of $4.700 back to the bank.

Victim Location 55369

Type of a scam Employment

I applied to this company via Indeed.com. They then contacted me by text message, setting up an interview on google hangouts with a guy named Mr. Gary Herman. The ‘interview’ was conducted by messaging only, and had a lot of information given about the ‘company’ without telling exactly what it is. Within an hour of the interview, they confirmed me for the position and proceeded to request personal information like my address. I inquired about the legitimacy of this job, and they merely said it would be clearly legit after I finish my application information. The other thing that was odd was the insinuated money I would need to spend on ‘software’ for the job.