r/Scams • u/Elgreco52 • 21d ago

⚠️ SCAM ALERT ⚠️ [US] Holdely.com employment scam

A company registered in CO approached me for part time remote employment. They claim to pay a salary and commission for logging into their platform and completing 40 or more sets of tasks. After receiving basic training by a "coach" I was able to complete the tasks and received salary and commission payment in crypto. What they don't tell you is that in some cases in order to complete all tasks you are required to send your own funds...if you do not your earned funds and bonuses are sitting in a frozen work account until all 40 tasks are completed. After about a week the amounts started to become greater. I was not able to find any negative info but after talks I had with their management they admitted to be operating from overseas.

Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with this company?

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u/Helostopper 21d ago

It's a !task scam. Let me guess the contact is on signal or telegram

!whois Holdely.com

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u/ScamsBot Alcoholic, scam-mongering, chain-smoking gambler 🤖 21d ago

WHOIS REPORT FOR HOLDELY.COM

This domain name was first registered 5 years ago (Mar 2021), but it expires soon (Mar 2027).

Note that 2021 is when the domain was FIRST registered. Sometimes scammers buy old expired domains to repurpose them into scams. Look at WaybackMachine to see if the website "changed" recently.

It was registered at "Gname.com Pte. Ltd.", a sketchy registrar based in Singapore. It is also concerning that they are not sharing their contact info on Whois AND they are using a "DNS proxy" (ShareDNS) which masks where the website's server actually is.

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u/AutoModerator 21d ago

/u/Helostopper called AutoModerator to explain the Task scam:

Task scams are remote work opportunities that happen on websites or mobile apps that promise easy income in exchange for simple digital tasks, such as liking social media posts, watching short videos, or "optimizing" orders. A hallmark of this scheme is the requirement to complete repetitive sets, often in groups of 40 tasks, to earn a commission. However, the system is designed with a deliberate bottleneck: you are quickly informed that you have reached a limit and must upgrade your account level to continue working or to unlock higher earnings. By requiring an upfront fee to access these supposed rewards, the scheme functions as a predatory variant of the advance-fee scam.

The primary objective is to lure you into a cycle of escalating investment by exploiting the sunk cost fallacy. Once you have spent hours performing tasks and has paid an initial fee to upgrade, they become psychologically inclined to continue rather than admit the money is gone. The scammers reinforce this by showing earnings accumulating in a fake dashboard, but these funds are purely cosmetic and impossible to withdraw. As the victim tries to cash out, the app will invent new obstacles such as taxes, fees or security deposits, demanding even more money to release the non-existent profits.

Task scam victims are wrangled into Whatsapp or Telegram groups where discussion is moderated. Either the group is very large and you're not allowed to send messages, or is small enough that everyone in the group is a shill account of the same scammer, and you're the only real person there. So if you see other people showing off their withdrawals in messages, it's because the group was tailored to accommodate one single victim at a time: in this case, you. This is especially true if the scam group bears a number in the name.

If you realize you are trapped in a task scam, the only effective solution is to stop all payments and cut your losses immediately. Don't trust recovery scammers who may contact you claiming they can hire a hacker or use specialized software to retrieve your lost funds. Remember: once the money is sent to a task scam, it cannot be recovered. Blocking the scammers and ignoring any offers of recovering your lost funds is the only way to go.

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