Type of a scam Other
The business will then offer to send a lump sum of money to a personal bank account through Interact e-transfer, which is expected to be withdrawn and deposited into a Bitcoin account that has been created. After a few days or weeks – usually after the probation period has ended – the money that was exchanged via e-transfer is found linked to a suspicious or stolen bank account, causing the issuing bank to reverse the transfer.
Since Bitcoin exchanges are uniquely anonymous, once a fraudulent transaction is found to have taken place, targets are left with a negative balance that cannot be recovered.
Their reason was that they want to pay their freelance software developers in bitcoin so they need you to take the cash they send and send it their so called worker