“Unfortunately I found no available source online to find out more about this organization, except for those registrations,” wrote the complainant. “They collect huge amounts of investments from third world countries in Asia.”
One of the FTC complaints claims that more than 6,000 people in Bangladesh may have been hit by the OpenAI-ETC Job Scam. The ages mentioned in the FTC complaints vary from teenagers to people in the 1950s, with locations spread over several Bangladesh cities, from Dhaka to Khulna.
“My next trade date was August 29, 2024,” wrote another complainant. “I made my entire amount in the evening. But suddenly the OpenAi company disappeared. I have not withdrawn money, but lost both capital and profit. Now I am in a major economic crisis, because I am a normal school teacher. '
Niko Felix, a spokesperson for OpenAi, refused to answer questions about whether the startup was more aware of the “OpenAI -ETC” scam, or whether they were planning to take action against the fraudsters. But he has shared that OpenAi is investigating the case. The alleged SCAM website is no longer available online and Wired could not contact the people behind “OpenAI-ETC” prior to publication.
A telegram spokesperson who uses the name Remi Vaughn, says Wired that the company monitors its platform for scams, as reportedly carried out by OpenAI-ETC, who used the Message app to communicate with people who believed they have for the company worked.
“Telegram actively moderates harmful content on his platform, including scams,” says Vaughn in a statement sent by the message platform. “Moderators who are authorized with custom all and machine learning tools proactively monitor the public parts of the platform and accept reports from users and organizations to remove millions of pieces of harmful content every day.”
The usual pattern of a crypto -lanes is to mislead people to deposit a kind of digital currency into a fake account that the victim believes that they have control, until the perpetrator removes it in a day without warning. Although this specific carpet stroke used the branding of OpenAi to allegedly dupe his victims, a crypto job can be done with the name of any company that has sufficiently widespread recognition for criminals to take advantage.
“This social engineering -scams are designed to reduce our natural suspicion and to make us complicit in our own deception,” says Arun Vishwanath, a cyber security expert and author of The weakest link. “For job scam, they try to turn our ambitions and inherent trust in brands into vulnerability.” Just as with so -called pig -dependent investment scam, an important part often contains direct messages for a long period to cultivate a sense of trust with the goals.
Although comparable activities are taking place all over the world, Vishwanath believes that Asian cultural norms of the so -called high power distance, where there is more acceptance of interpersonal hierarchies, are a contributing factor. “Authorities are expected to ask you things and let you do things,” he says. “And you just comply.” Scammers benefit from this by simulating authority figures and leaning in the feeling of urgency that is inherent in looking for a job.
Bangladeshi citizens on the difficult hunt for reliable work have increasingly been the target of jobs in recent years. Lies about international opportunities for work have stranded crowds of potential employees in Malaysia, and at least three cases of theft of kidney organ were reported by people who were lured to India with false promises of work.
