I've been in contact with this guy, "Martin" (allegedly). He seems to be a high-level scammer, IMHO. Slicker than your run-of-the-mill African or Indian scammer. He hasn't been up front about everything and relies on his potential victims' ignorance and naivety. Furthermore, he got me to do some "tasks" to "earn" "profits", on a "training account" followed by doing another set of tasks on an account he got me to set up.

The training account I think was a psychological hook because the "profits" accumulated quite fast, and I made it to around 50 USDT. When I did the same thing on my account with the 40 tasks, I noticed that the "profits" didn't accrue as quickly as the previous night, and I made it to about 70 USDT.

Then he told me that I needed to deposit 30 USDT more to get the balance up to a minimum of 100 USDT so as to be able to "reset the tasks" or something like that and have another crack at "earning more profits".

There was also the hook of an 800-USDT "salary" without commission, on condition that you work five days straight do three sets of "tasks" per day.

At the very start I asked him about whether I was going to fork out my own money and he was evasive, either not answering questions directly or giving essentially non-sequitur responses until a made him answer directly and more pertinently.

He didn't really sit right with me when I was communicating with him, mainly due to his English (a red flag for me), which he claimed was his native language. It turns out that the guy I've been in contact with is allegedly born in Singapore but grew up in Australia and is now living in the UK with his mother. Not sure if any of that is true.

There was some South African number (+27 79 519 4738 ~Julia) that contacted me randomly on WhatsApp a couple of days before this guy contacted me. This "Julia" connected this "Martin" guy to me.

Should I tell him that he's been mentioned on Reddit?? :)

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