I'm a VA Freelancer from Philippines. On march 5,2022 there was a posting in Online job.ph about the job Tittle "Data Entry" Compensation: 9000 PHP for each two week of work(18000/month) Flexible time. Normally I would be applying to various jobs posting. Then I received a response from a person named Sarah Klingele from German have online store in reverb drop shipping business(going to sell music instruments online)in Berlin, Germany. She briefed me on what to do 1-2 times a week I will receive money on my PayPal for sold items on reverb.com or eBay once I received the money on my PayPal, then I will transfer it from PayPal to GCash, then buy Bitcoins through Coins.ph and send it to her. the job will not take more then 5 hours/week so I attractive. Diligent as I am. I followed all the instructions on what is required for the work. First she ask me for my verified PayPal Email. so I give to her because I trust with her because I applied a job thru online job.ph and she sent me a contract of employment and She told me that she needed my PayPal email so the 'clients' can send the money to it. I was tasked to send report about my new transactions on my PayPal account by 1 time/day, at evening (19pm-21pm Manila time). Responsibilities: Receiving payments from my Clients via Paypal Using funds for buying crypto on coins.ph send the report of my PayPal Transaction. As days goes by, she told me "client sent money to you" on march 18,2022 name is Mr. Mark Porter that the 1st transaction I received on my PayPal acct amount of $2,194.68 client paid for his order a musical instrument Weber Mandoline in reverb store of Sarah Klingele. But the money send by the client was On hold so were waiting for the days should be released. On march 26, I received an email from the buyer Mr. Porter This is what he said "Can you check with the shipper?. There are no package acceptance scans? only a label printed scan. So Immediately informed this concern to Sarah my boss thru skype our work communication chat. March 30,2022 the money already released on my PayPal at 1:40PM March 31, She told me to start the process we will process this transfer from PayPal to Gcash to Coins.ph so I transferred the money amount of Php 100,000 plus to coinsph she provided the name of the person I will going to send to Mr. Mark Brown thru BTC. then she told me the (9000 is your salary, pls keep it on PayPal before we will process the rest. April 5,2022 I got email from PayPal that the buyer name Mr. Mark Porter file a complaint that he did not received the item So I Immediately informed this to Sarah, I've asked her about the PayPal Dispute but she Ignore my messages in Skype and Blocked me. From there, I feared that I was victim of scam. Because of this fraud, my PayPal account was Temporally closed also (and hence I owned PayPal a negative value that leaves me helpless). Fortunately, I have all the details of the transaction(Including email exchange and I also have the photos of transaction in Gcash and Coinsph. Now my concern is that I cant even file a dispute in my defense on this transaction. No matter where I look , I can only think get disheartened that this happened to me, someone who is trying to earn a decent living, What can I do in this situation in legal sense? Please help me:( I am still looking for hope.
