Total money lost $2,600
Type of a scam Employment
A man named victor first contacted me on february 27 on Instagram who said he was a surgeon and businessman who worked with bitcoin trading. He said he had a job offer where he could give me 200 a day for doing errands for him. He told me for my name and email, I gave it to him and he sent me a cheque worth 1500 using mobile cheque deposit where you get sent a cheque by email that you deposit using the banks app, with his cheques being sent by his "accountant". He told me to etransfer him 1100 to his "cousin". He then made me open up a Scotiabank account so I could deposit these cheques. He would then send me cheques everyday and I would give the money to him in the form of bitcoin in total he sent me $3900 by cheque and j have him $2100 by etransfer or bitcoin. And march 2 and 3, the cheques he gave to me we either returned or counterfeit. Afterwards he kept asking me to open an RBC account which I did not do. When I confronted him about the cheques, he told me the cheque was in review by the bank and that his cheques were always legit. He also kept telling me that he loved me and he would never lie or do anything bad to me. The scammer and his"accountant"would also always make new instagram accounts every 1-3 days to contact me from. He also asked me one time to give him my banking username and password so he could solve all my problems which I refused to do. On March 14 2020 he told me that I needed to send him $500 in bitcoin or else he would lose $71000 but I also denied it. Recently he messaged saying to give him steam and Google play gift cards or else he would call the police on me and get me arrested, so blackmailing me into giving him bitcoin, which I have not done. The last working Instagram account he contacted me with was Richard.carter777777. The personal info I lost was my full name and email only.