Fiverr featured a gig thats an obvious scam

[aeiko]

Recently fiverr sent out an email featuring this gig:



[fragglesrock] Sheriff’s note: Sorry, calling out is not allowed on the forum - please report this to customer support



I thought it was too good too be true, its almost impossible to get verified on twitter unless your a celeb or spend 15k in advertising with them, so I bought the gig.



After you have provided information to the seller, they say they will forward it too twitter (you can do this yourself anyway)



Then they ask you too leave positive feedback or they will not proceed with your order.



I said that I have paid the $5 and given you the information, you should go ahead with the order.



They immediately sent a cancellation request (which voids you leaving feedback)



I left them negative feedback, to which they lied and replied my account was ‘adult’ and I was forcing them too get me verified, my account is just a normal twitter account they are just lying and making excuses.



I am very surprised the gig is still active and people are falling for it, its a complete scam. The seller should be banned from fiverr or at least the gig be removed! Can’t believe also fiverr didnt look into the gig before featuring it on their email newsletter!

[aeiko]

Haha now they are saying they are reporting my account too twitter because I left negative feedback, they try to blackmail you at first, then try bullying and threatening you, I am sure this breaks the fiverr terms and conditions.

[Guest celticmoon]

I’m curious: why on earth did you buy something which you obviously knew was “too good to be true”? And to do a task which you apparently could’ve just done yourself? I guess I thought that people usually got scammed because they truly didn’t know better and were too lazy to investigate the product (or service) before buying. But you seem to have been scammed even though you knew it was probably a scam! Why?

[nickih]

Another question is why on earth is Fiverr featuring a gig that obviously violates their own Terms of Service and other sites’ TOS (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Google+).



You would think that if a gig violated Fiverr’s rules and TOS, they’d remove the gig entirely, not give it a featured spot and send it out in a mass email for advertisement.



Sometimes, I wonder if anyone is even at the helm of this ship…