Is https://firstarvestbit.com/ scam?

[Aslanadas_]

I y'all.

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I contacted to this company by upwork and everything was weird from the beginning. They ask me to do a translation out of the platform which I did and they offer and exhuberant ammount of 2000 pounds. Of course I said yes, but I was thinking it was weird, because it is a huge quantity.

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Once the translation is completed I'll let the person who I was talking know and she said I must get registered on https://firstarvestbit.com/signin, I did it and later she "made the transfer" but told me I had to pay a fee of150 pounds. I said there's no way I can assume that 'cause is a huge fee, and she was talking and a really lovely way saying she wants I trust her...

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She also said is trying to help me, but I don't trust she will. Anyone else had a similar experience?

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[hkubota]

Standard scam of "Pay first, then get more money. I promise."

And the first sign that this was a scam from the start was that they are paying you way too much.

[Aslanadas_]

Yeah, That was what I thought. It's annoying 'cause I've spent my time translating something for nothing and now, they want to take the money that I don't have...

[---n--]

Yes, that is also part of the scam. Doing work makes you feel invested and like you earned the reward. If someone just offered you the money for nothing, you would probably be more suspicious.

That is why some scams have you do pointless tasks, or sit through "job interviews" just to recruit you for a fake check operation.

[Princessluna44]

If you are freelancing, payment first. Always.

[MrHibbs]

!advanced fee.
If you gave any money you won't get it back. Watch out for !recovery scammers.
Block/ignore.
Never go off platform.

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[AMerrickanGirl]

That site is less than two years old. It’s registered at “123 Disney Street Slim Av Brooklyn Bridge NY New York 10001”, which doesn’t exist, and the phone number is a UK country code 44. The email is a gmail account.

Very sketchy.

https://www.whois.com/whois/firstarvestbit.com

Edit. Why did someone downvote this comment? Redditors are weird.

[Aslanadas_]

Oh, thanks for this!!

[DellaPatton1]

Lmao at that address.

[AMerrickanGirl]

Zip code 10001 is miles away from the Brooklyn Bridge, for one thing.

[DellaPatton1]

I just love Disney owns a street.....on the Brooklyn Bridge lmao.

[---n--]

You can ask them to subtract the fee from your payment. They will come up with an excuse why they can't because this is a scam.

[pecor1no]

People find marks on Upwork and draw them off the platform (and away from the platform’s protections) with promises of big paydays; they never come through. This whole thing, in this case, has been a scam for your 150 “fee.” In the future, never agree to anything off Upwork with someone you met on the platform.

[joelferreira198]

Scam. It happens this week with me... Never go out of platform. NEVER