Another U.S. contractor (a work from home mother) has reached out to me and I'm sure there are many more who have found themselves in a similar situation. With over 300,000 contractors working on the platform, it's hard to imagine that only two have be defrauded. The odds are that there are tens of thousands who have had money stolen and have no way to recover it.
Her story parallels mine. She received a lucky order and had to deposit $1,000 to clear the negative account balance, then she received a large gift award of $796,852 and right after hit another lucky order which caused the account to go negative in the amount of $2,200. Once that negative balance was cleared, she received another lucky order causing a negative balance of $9,645 (remember lucky orders are rare and certainly not 3 in a row). This resulted in frozen money for earned commissions and the gift award, in the amount of $846,944.
So in summary, "the system" stole $3,200 from her and is looking for another $9,645 while holding funds "hostage" in the amount of $846,944.
Should she some how be able to, or choose to, come up with the $9,645, the same thing will most likely happen to her as happened to me. She'll be told to deposit over $186,000 into her personal crypto wallet for a couple of days and then she would "automatically" receive the money that is rightfully due her, in those "reassuring" words from her CSR. What we don't know, since neither she, nor I, have coughed up this obscene amount of money (in my case it would have been over $283,000) is what the next level of this scam looks like.....but one can only guess.
To get an idea of the potential magnitude of this fraud and also the number of people whose lives have been impacted, take a look at the "What If" scenario in the next tab entitled "I Think I've Broken the Code....."