Again, payment through bought gift cards.
they claim you should be getting $300, but they (make you) enter $3000) and then ask you to pay back the difference lest they might get in trouble. Most common ones involve faking a virus alarm as an online ad with a call-in-number and when someone calls, they ask to connect remotely to your PC, do some CMD nonsense that looks impressive to someone who has no idea about it and then 'bill' the client for services by having them get giftcards and tell them the code.Īnother popular variant is the payback, where they tell you you're getting money from something, again connect to your pc, then they have some fake website or your actual banking site open and manipulate the input to make it look like they've paid you a lot more than they should've (e.g.
