24 Hour Dating Service
David Freeman enticing, too good to be true, overseas dating service SCAM!

I am a recent college graduate and I have been looking for full time employment since the beginning of the year. Upon having my resume posted on multiple career and job finding sites, I began getting emails from a supposed online dating service for text-editing. Aparrently, this 24 hour dating service was based Europe, probably Germany, and needed someone to edit emails within the company.
The emails used very poor, broken English and poor gammar and puncuation. Thinking this was similar to a data entry position, I thought this would be a great way to make some extra money. Upon editing a few documents and recieving approval from this "David Freeman", I was told that I was doing a great job and I had earned over $100 for my work. I was then told that in order for me to be paid, I needed to open an account so a direct deposit could be made to recieve my money.
I decided to open a new account with my bank that was specifically for this company and kept my other account with my finances not only seperate but with another bank. Mr "Freeman" then told me a few days later that there was a position opening that he felt I would be a good fit for.

The email I recieved is below:
Local Agent-worker: who receive money from our clients on the account and send them to our workers. 6 percents of commission abandons itself!
Your duty to be always on connection and in that moment when we will say you that money for you on an account, you must as quick as possible send them for us-it is main task of Local Agent. Work will occupy not more than 1-2 hours a day.
Usually a money come in the morning, that you can send them to us before work, or after work, as comfortably for you.
If you attentively read letters of our Local Agents, you can see principle of work there. You will work 3-4 days a week.!! Your salary will be $1800 6% commission.!!
You will get commissions immediately after cashing. Your Pay Date stays the same, even you start a new job, also your balance stays alive. We hope you will work in the right way as you did it before and we wish you to have a good income in our company.
Also if you will choose Local Agent position you don't have to wait Pay Date for text editing, you will receive money for text editing with first transfer.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Sounds easy enough right? Well once I had the bank account set up and informed them I was ready to work, I recieved this email on my first day of work with what I was to do.

Dear (anonymus),
thank you for cooperation and willing to start working with us and join our team. Please follow instructions and complete this simple.

Please divide the payment (after you take your commission) on two equal pieces and send the to 2 clients as there might be a limit of $5000 per day per person.

You have to do the following:

1. Visit your local branch
2. Withdraw the whole amount ($8556.00USD).
3. Keep your 6% from amount transferred ($ 513.8USD).
4. Visit nearest Western Union branch and resend the amount of to ours clients (WU commission included in $8042.2USD).

But remember everything must be complete in an two hours since you withdraw the money.) 5. Mark that the receivers should receive the money in US Dollars. 6. Don't use econom service the money should be received at the same day.
MONEY TRANSFER SYSTEM (www.WESTERNUNION.com, LOOK FOR THE NEAREST BRANCHES ON THE WEBSITE) *Please send money via Western union branch, because it much more faster*
!!! Do not send money via Bank, because it it slower!!!
You should choose option "Send in one minute"

Upon completing this task and withdrawing the money from my account that they had deposited earlier that morning, I recieved a phone call from "Mr. Freeman" asking me if I had completed my first task. I informed him that I had and he asked me for the MCTN on each money wire transfer sheet that I had recieved from each western union where I wired the money to each recipeint.
The next morning, I logged onto my bank account and noticed that it didnt look right. I saw the deposit that was made and the withdrawl that I had made, but there was another entry on my statement sheet that I didnt understand. I decided to call the customer service line and spoke with a representative of my bank.
She explained to me that my account was overdrawn but the over $8,000. I asked her to explain how that could be since the day before, my balance was positive.
She explained that the direct deposit that was made by "mr Freeman"/24 hour dating service, (which by the way was shown on the statement as another company) was reversed that same day and most likely within hours of when the deposit was made. I was still confused as to how that could have been, but she stated there was nothing she or my bank could do and that I needed to contact my employer and have them reverse the deposit yet again in order to get my account straight.
Long story short, Mr. Freeman and company where unreachable, via email or phone. All numbers were no longer in service and I have yet to recieve a response via email. I have contacted the police, attorney general and faud department of my bank, but at the end of the day, I am still currently responsible to paying the bank back in full.
I will be meeting with a lawyer as soon as possible. If you or someone you know ever recieves an email like this or similiar to this claiming to be overseas and inviting you to work with them, delete it! I wouldn't wish this kind of drama, pain and suffering on my worst ememy.

Company: 24 Hour Dating Service
Country: USA
Site: www.24open.ru

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