Victim Location 20110
Total money lost $500
Type of a scam CryptoCurrency
COINBASE SCAM
I LINKED MY BANK ACCOUNT TO THEIR PAYMENT METHOD
I PURCHASED 100s OF DOLLARS IN CRYPTOCURRENY
COINBASE LOCKED ME OUT OF MY ACCOUNT AND WILL NOT RELEASE MY MONEY
I HAVE CALLED AND EMAILED, YET NO RESPONSE. TOTAL SCAM.
Type of a scam Employment
This talent management recruiter approached me as Corinna Lee from Coinbase.
She wants to offer the job of administrative assistant-remote. I found it strange that a company from the U.S would suddenly contact a Canadian to work for them when they can simply just hire a US citizen…
There was no phone interview, or any kind of interview, she just sent a word document asking for me to sign the employment agreement.
Nonetheless, I stopped responding since a job offer without an interview is something I’ve never seen before, and only a scammer would offer you a job like that.
Victim Location 32526
Total money lost $50
Type of a scam Tech Support
Used business name Coinbase and supposed to clean up computer to access plenty of fish but got inside computer and into bank account and requested itunes cards and other gift cards
Victim Location 48114
Type of a scam Tax Collection
This Indian guy, supposedly named Alex Peter called me from 1-888-912-1737 claimed he works at the IT dept for Coinbase (employee # 2459). He couldn’t keep his story straight and it was obvious something wasn’t right. He wanted me to download Teamviewer so he could diagnose some payment issues with Coinbase. He wanted me to log into my Coinbase account so he could steal digital currencies. I hung up right away and blocked his number. Please list the phone number stated above as a scam so nobody will fall for this.
Thanks!
Victim Location 48602
Type of a scam Tech Support
Called multiple times claiming they were with Microsoft saying my personal information was vulnerable and hackers can easily obtain it. They ask for lots of personal information stating they will monitor your credit cards and Internet activity to prevent theft. They then remotely access your computer. When they tried to charge my cards fraud alerts were sent out. My computer was not usable afterwards when I tried contacting them back the person seemed surprised that I called back on the California number, he stated that someone would call me the next day and quickly hung up the phone. I called Microsoft and they stated that they never contact customers unless initiated by the customer. So I had to go to the Microsoft store to have whatever they were doing undone.