I recently made a profile on truelancer.com. I was looking for a freelance job as a translator. Then I found an offer from a person named Jason from the USA who said that he needed some freelance translator. I applied and he told me to contact him on whatsapp on this number+1641552xxxx. I did so he started asking me what languages I speak, do I have any experience in translation. Then he sent me a document with the logo of Optimum recruit company detailing about the project and asked me if I was interested to accept it. I did accept it. There said that I should translate 20 images and receive$550 but first I had to pay$50 refundable insurance fee. I looked up the company and noticed that it was situated in the UK but didn’t pay much attention. I had 5 days to finish the job. I did and they give me an email to which I was supposed to sent the translations. This is the email optimumrucruit.uk@gmail.com. please notice that it says rUcruit instead of rEcruit. They thanked me for the translation and told me to wait 2-4 days for the payment. Then they send me this: Sorry for the inconvenience, There was an issue during your payment transaction, kindly chat with the project director for more information, transaction should be made on Paypal, and you didn’t submit you national id or any means of identification.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
PAYMENT STATUS: PENDING
YOUR PAYMENT STATUS IS CURRENTLY ON PENDING BECAUSE YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT HAS NOT BEEN ATTACHED TO OUR CITIBANK PAYMENT SYSTEM. KINDLY SEND THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS FOR THE BALANCE TO REFLECT ON YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT
Thanks for working with us.
You can reach me on+1712305xxxx I’m the general director of the project
I reached that number, he asked for my ID and unfortunately I sent it. Then he proceeded to ask me for another payment of$300. It was then I started to get suspicious. I told them I didn’t have the money and the told they could help me out and that I needed to pay at least 150-200 usd. That happened yesterday. Today the person I contacted first, told I could pay 80 - 100 usd because it wasnt my fault the didnt tell me earlier. Please help me I’m really scared. I gave them my ID. And i’m almost 100% sure they are pretending to be this company: Optimum recruit limited.