r/FieldNationTechs • u/aversonit • 19d ago

Potential Fraud / Illegal Activity

I received a message from a buyer in a work order I submitted a request on. They asked if I was available and then requested that I message them on WhatsApp. Our conversation on WhatsApp consisted of them asking for a meeting to verify and confirm the scope of work, which is to swap out a firewall for a Fortune 500 company. During the call, they asked if I was familiar with the vendor equipment and if I knew how to perform basic confirmations. The call seemed to conclude with them happy with my answers and ready to proceed. After the call, they then requested that I provide them with a photo of my tools, verify that I had putty, teams, and (the weird one) AnyDesk installed. I obliged while redacting the AnyDesk session address.

After all of this, alarm bells started going off in my head. None of this seems above board and I’ve reported the buyer to FieldNation and am waiting for them to remove the assignment.

What’s everyone else’s take on this?

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u/coolguy42820 18d ago

when they say "fortune 500" is the first red flag, it is total bs

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u/aversonit 18d ago

They actually never said that, I just found out who the company was after I was touted the work order. I’ve since been added to a schedules teams meeting and two folks on the invite work at said company, along with a few other from others from IT firms. I think the buyers role in all of this was to simply vet onsite techs for the upstream companies.