Thread 24669619

They offered to hire me PT or FT and want to pay me via West Pay Bridge (suspicious site with no Google results). I tried to contact Dundurn, but they didn't respond. The affiliate bank wanted an IMF number. Is this legit, or are they trying to steal my identity? The manuscript they sent me seemed authentic. If this is a scam, then we should notify the real Dundurn Press that someone is impersonating them

How did you first get in contact with them? Did you apply to a job on their website? KYC is a vital step for the security of their operations yet they send prospective employees manuscripts before they’ve verified who they are?
Where do you see that email address listed? I would give them a call if I were you, get their number on their actual website

>>24669619 (OP)
>canadian "literature"
kek

>>24669779
I was headhunted by an alleged employee who was emailing me via Spike. She gave me a sample page to review, which I did. Then, she sent me a full manuscript, which I also sent back with my changes.

The order was $9000 plus a bonus for handing in the project early. They told me to register with West Pay Bridge to receive the funds, but I can find no background on this alleged bank and it seems like it could be phishing.

I called Dundurn, but they had no idea what I was talking about. From what I understand, they use .com and not .info email addresses. So right now I supposedly have around 8000 GBP on a questionable banking website and am unsure what to do

>>24669793
Yeah I’m sorry man but this feels like a complete scam. I hope you didn’t put your heart into it because I know how hard it is to find work atm especially in publishing. The only consolation is that you only lost your time. They would have eventually asked you for ‘fees’ to access your 8000 pounds.

>>24669825
If I just did $9000 of work in exchange for my identity being stolen, I will literally liquidate my assets and leave the country and renounce my citizenship. This would be the last straw

>>24669935
If you did send ID documents then I'm sure there's ways the government will help you.
I think the first step would be contacting the police but idk where you live.
At this stage you're probably fine but best to be sure.

>>24669619 (OP)
oh man, i feel so sorry for you bro. you got scammed. at least you were smart enough not to send them your info.

>>24669793
>I called Dundurn, but they had no idea what I was talking about. From what I understand, they use .com and not .info email addresses. So right now I supposedly have around 8000 GBP on a questionable banking website and am unsure what to do
bro your answer is right here...

>>24669935
If you gave them info, you have to work preemptively to make sure they do not fuck with your bank account. Lock it down however you can. Also you have to do something with the credit agencies to prevent anybody opening new bank accounts in your name, adn so on. Research it. There's a lot of stuff you have to do. They will probably try to take control of your email address, your SIM card, etc.

>>24669961
I froze my credit and notified my bank and changed most of my passwords and switched most of my accounts to a new email address. They didn't get my banking info but they do have my social and driver's license and address and most of the other stuff

I'm already basically homeless, if I'm now homeless and had my identity stolen too I will literally walk to Mexico if I have to. If even the job offers in this country are scams, I'm donezo. This country is worse than hell

>>24670011
You will be okay then. I hope things get better for you.

>>24670027
>only jobs open to white men are phishing scams

incredible country

>>24670061
if it's any consolation, it's horrible for all of us

Did you edit a whole book? That's pretty shitty that they made you do that for nothing. Fucking scammers.

Is it even a real manuscript? They probably ripped it off of somebody else. Post some screenshots if you can.

>>24670182
I punched up an entire book, rewriting all the dialogue and character arcs in three days without stopping except to sleep

Heartbreaking thread

>>24670192
at least you’ve got a good hook for your novel

>>24669793
>So right now I supposedly have around 8000 GBP on a questionable banking website and am unsure what to do

crazy
hope things get better for you dawg

how do I not be an American anymore? what amount of money would it cost to escape? can I become a refugee or are we all prisoners?

>>24669619 (OP)
Tell them you want a money order.

>>24669619 (OP)
greetings . Sorry for troubling for you. Now. We thank you greatly for all your appreciation and Help with our manuscript. Now. Unfortunately we must charge a small fee in order to transfer funds to you sir. if you can please just. give us your bank account number. We can process your moment very quickly. Now excuse me, I heard a woman outside of my office that I must to harass.

goodday.

>>24670258
i think japanese factories hire foreign workers. you can go live in japan a while, work in a factory and live in their company dorm. you can learn japanese and socialize with the filipinos

Saaaar do not expose us!!

>>24670298
oh shit
full name: tom hadaway, mother’s maiden name: llewelyn, social sec 721074426

>>24670298
the real employees on the phone were indian like the possible scammers sending me the emails so i couldn't even tell them apart

https://www.dundurn.com/about/careers
Lol
>There are no open job postings at this time.
>Please note that Dundurn Press does not work with third party recruiters and any interviews with Dundurn Press will be set up through a dundurn.com email address. We do not cold call candidates.
Seems that they already have experience with this

>>24670258
I dont know if Russia is amy better but a Russian man once told me that if an American applies for asylum in Russia they will usually accept it because America is ran by satanic pedos etc.
Cant be sure if thats true but its what I hear

>>24670722
Russia sounds comfy. Or you could be an english teacher in Chingchong

>>24670586
someone said the internal emails are .info and the public ones are .com

I'm 99% sure it was a scam but there's a remote chance it's legit

the logistics of this being faked don't make sense, who has an unfinished manuscript laying around? why would they make me do a sample page if it was all just to steal my identity?

>>24670011
>If even the job offers in this country are scams
>scams
Go back to India jeet.

>>24670586
>>24671486

>who has an unfinished manuscript laying around?

All the literary agencies right now have similar notices on their websites, so the scammers are targeting writers, people who don't even have money. I'm guessing in general they approach writers who have published something online. They say they work for a literary agency. Writer gives them manuscript and gets scammed.

> internal emails are .info and the public ones are .com
no such thing dude

>>24669619 (OP)
it sure reads like a scam
especially if Dundurn does not respond
get some fake ass pajeet ids from internet searching and send them

>>24670722
>>24670769
I lived in Russia for a year, idk what propaganda you guys are consuming but Russia is a worse hell than America. There's no job prospects and no sun for 9 months out of the year. They have the most lopsided man/woman mortality rate in the developed world because of suicide, alcoholism, and sending their men to die as cannon fodder for border skirmishes.

On the other hand, their women have big tiddies and they will fuck the depression out of you one cold night at a time, and since all their men are dying there's a surplus of hot single women. So I would say do it. Go to Russia.

>>24672633
according to the purpose of a system is what it does the USA is a mulatto studfarm run by the devil, so

>>24672633
Maybe you have to stay around Sochi or Crimea for it to be kino

>>24669619 (OP)
Literally the only google results for "westpaybridge" are the site itself, a scamadvisor page ("Trustscore: 49/100"), and this thread. Also according to the WHOIS data the site was created in June. Pretty sure you're fucked bro, sorry.

>>24673084
Xenu's prison planet sucks

I still work for Dundurn. Sun up sun durn. They make me edit things. Manuscripts mostly, they are all from the same durn book. Erotic autofiction but I never get the erotic parts. Just pages and pages of this guy’s durning life and all he durns is go to the supermarket and ask if they have dundurnhills. And of course they don’t, why would you choose those over marbolos. So it just goes on and on and I keep correcting everything since Dundurn is a brand-forward company, so they insert their name into words when possible. It’s a new kind of advertising. You can’t even mention other brands, I just tried but it gets subsumed by the Dundurning and I don’t know if I can’t take it anymore. It’s Dundurn pressing me off.

>>24672633
>Russia is a worse hell than America
You cannot lie to us anymore, Jew. We have all read Limonov. We know the truth!

>>24673191
>>24672824
>>24672652
you guys watch tucker carlson don't you? His piece on Russia was bullshit but you won't hear me. The first day I was in Moscow I saw a fist fight in the subway, and a homeless person passed out at the exit with a bottle of vodka. Tucker Carlson is Putin's propaganda cuck.

>>24674140
>big city has crime and substance abuse evident
idc about russia but this is any big city

>>24670241
Yeah that's what I was thinking, this scammer is doing God's work, establishing his own legend.

>>24671486
If they sent you any files (or if you visited their websites) make sure you run a virus scanner on your computer. I wouldn't be surprised if they installed a key logger or something.

>>24669619 (OP)
You fell victim to one of the classic Dundurns

Are you white?

>>24674140
you find no sympathizers here, хoхoл.

>>24669619 (OP)
>>24669793
God please let this be real and not bait. Who the fuck fallls for the most obvious pajeet scam HAHAHAHA

>>24669793
Next they'll ask you for money to get the funds that are "locked up". It's a SCAM.

>>24670192
Guess it's yours now, anon.

>>24675751
Imagine being the other innocent scam victim and having your manuscript sent out to hundreds of people like OP

>>24673103
i laughed

>>24673103
Marbolos are for housewives and children

>>24675791
i'm thinking it's possible the order is real people working for a publisher (why else do they have the unfinished manuscript), but they are doing this off the books for malevolent reasons

alleged wage disbursement bank looks like this

>>24677061
That doesn't mean anything, long term scams like this can whip up a dashboard and make up numbers. John Oliver did a piece on this. What's the URL to see this dashboard? Did you have to log in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

>>24677053
>>24677061
It's a scam. Give up on it. There is no money for you. They want you to be desperate because it means they can drag you along further. The more desperate you are the more likely you are to make a concession or behave as if you have nothing left to lose, which will make it easier for them to get more information or even money from you. It's like the anon said about them asking for a fee to "unlock" your made-up funds -- if you're desperate you're going to be more likely to risk a small sum of money to receive the larger payout (which does not exist).

Doesn't matter whether that manuscript was real or not, you're not going to make any money from these people, and in fact all they want now is to make money from you.

>>24677061
KEK

>>24677053
You should write to Krebs On Security about this. He knows all the scams. Maybe he can explain it in a blogpost.