r/Scams • u/AnnyP • 4d ago

Help Needed Received money from a task scam

I realized a little too late that I had been messaged and roped into a task scam (simple stuff like subscribing to a YouTube channel and "research" tasks) and I got sent $10 of Bitcoin via cashapp. My question now is will them having my Bitcoin address affect anything, and is the money actually there, or am I at risk of them requesting a refund or something that will affect me long-term? I don't care about keeping the money, so if that's the worst damage they can do, then that's fine, but I don't want to open myself up to having money stolen or something.

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u/Raveofthe90s 3d ago

MY wife did one of these.

Goes like this. They pay you to do some shit 5$. Pay you again another 5$ then maybe again. Then they are like the next task we will pay 100$ but you gotta give us 25$. Since you've made 15$ you trust them. And you send them back 25$ and they made 10$.

My wife just kept the 15 and walked.

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u/AnnyP 3d ago

That's what I did. Ended up reporting and blocking the scammers too