03/14/2023
Ascella Technologies is not a freelancing company nor do we hire freelancers for odd jobs (including logo design, document translation, editing, etc.).
Ascella will not contact you to request payment for something in order to provide you with payment for your work. Ascella will also not contact you via Telegram. You can report any Telegram account that contacts you to Telegram's Antiscam bot (). If you see any Facebook posts advertising freelance work with Ascella, please report the post and the user.
The FBI has the following general recommendations if you have been contacted by a scammer:
-Conduct a web search of the hiring company using the company name only. Results that return multiple websites for the same company (abccompany.com and abccompanyllc.com) may indicate fraudulent job listings.
-Legitimate companies will ask for PII and bank account information for payroll purposes AFTER hiring employees. This information is safer to give in-person. If in-person contact is not possible, a video call with the potential client can confirm identity, especially if the company has a directory against which to compare employee photos.
-Never send money to someone you meet online, especially by wire transfer.
-Never provide credit card information to an employer.
-Never provide bank account information to employers without verifying their identity.
-Do not accept any job offers that ask you to use your own bank account to transfer their money. A legitimate company will not ask you to do this.
-Never share your Social Security number or other PII that can be used to access your accounts with someone who does not need to know this information.
-Before entering PII online, make sure the website is secure by looking at the address bar. The address should begin with “https://”, not “http://”. However: criminals can also use “https://” to give victims a false sense of security. A decision to proceed should not be based solely upon the use of “https://”.
-Report the activity to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov or the FBI El Paso Office at (915) 832-5000.
-Report the activity to the website in which the job posting was listed.
-Report the activity to the company the cyber criminals impersonated.
-Contact your financial institution immediately upon discovering any fraudulent or suspicious activity and direct them to stop or reverse the transactions.
-Ask your financial institution to contact the corresponding financial institution where the fraudulent or suspicious transfer was sent.