So my japanese teacher, who's an older woman and volunteers at a local community center told me about this part time job she's interested in. It sounded too good to be true, but I did some research online and couldn't find anything like it. Was wondering if anyone else has anecdotes or can see a pattern, or if maybe it is legimate.
Basically, she will be instructed to open a specific visa card with a 30,000 yen minimum. Then shes told she has to rate videos and movies on their website. She doesn't even have to watch them or anything. She was told by her friend that the money is deposited on this visa card and she's able to take it out after.
It sounded extremely fishy so I told her I'd investigate. Any idea how this could go wrong? or is there actually some utility to rating videos online. There's also some relationship with the crypto exchange platform called bybit but that part was perhaps lost on me. Weird company, many staff and based in Oomiya. Interested in hearing from others what they think.
(EDIT: thanks for the input! I still want some solid case or official explanation so I can show her the pattern but this is a good start. At the best, it's probably crypto lobbying of some kind. At the worst, they're gonna sunk cost fallacy her)
(EDIT EDIT: I found a pretty close description of the scam on a local prefectural government website. As other said, it's a task scam. The hotline is 188 btw to consult about these things in case anyone ever falls into a weirdly specific situation like this)
by hyuunnyy