I quoted for a job on guru.com and got accepted, it was a translation of 15 something pages for a translation company called "Mahmoud Translations". It looked pretty legit to me, I asked about the payment process and they said they would sent me the payment in Cryptocurrency after I send them screenshots of my work. After sending the screenshots in they told me to make an account on harydex.com , and they did sent me the payment in btc on the site. I looked harydex up but couldnt find anything on google (I later found this russian website claiming its a scam: https://ift.tt/305cLOp ), so I assumed the site is legit.This is where my problems start as the site told me that I would have to deposit an amount of btc before making withdrawals. I had this occasionally while dealing with crypto exchanges and I thought it was pretty standard stuff at the time. However after I deposited 0,03 btc I still couldnt withdraw. I asked the support of the site and they said I didnt take the 1% commission fee into account, which would have to be added on top of the 0,03 btc deposit. They asked me to deposit 0,03 BTC again. At this point I asked the translation company about the validity of those deposits. They told me "their company values its reputation", and that they would provide grants in the form of company documents. Afterwards they send me the passport and LLC document of their representative office in the Ukraine. The LLC document was 24 pages in Ukrainian language so it doesnt really help me.Was I too naive and got scammed here? Please help me with my next steps! I'm unsure about how to proceed from here, and I fear I lost 200 to scammers.
Submitted January 09, 2020 at 08:14PM
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