Strange contact messages on Telegram, is this normal?

[taizul0011]

If any buyer ask or share personal information and tell communicating outside Fiverr. Those are spam. You can report on this.

[rashagamal]

Thanks 🙏

[evagarciatrepat]

Hola soy nuevo en fiverr, hay una empresa que se ha comunicado conmigo por e-mail y otra por telegram, he empezado a verlo raro cuando me piden dinero para el seguro antes de empezar. ¿Eso es normal? gracias saludos

[ahmwritingco]

1 hour ago, evagarciatrepat said:

Hola soy nuevo en fiverr, hay una empresa que se ha comunicado conmigo por e-mail y otra por telegram, he empezado a verlo raro cuando me piden dinero para el seguro antes de empezar. ¿Eso es normal? gracias saludos

Hola, Eva. Cualquiera que te pida dinero o intente que te unas a otra plataforma, ciertamente está tratando de estafarte. También debes saber que el idioma oficial del foro es el inglés. Puedes usar un traductor en línea (Google Translate) si lo necesitas. 🙂

(Translation: Anybody who asks you to give them money or join another platform is usually trying to scam you. Also, the official language of the forum is English. Google Translate is there if needed.)

Edited November 29, 2022 by ahmwritingco

[andremguia]

Yeah, registered with fiver to offer a gig. in 30 minutes I got EIGHT "contact me on telegram" emails.

 

I´m starting to think that Fiverr is now only being used by those guys. 

 

Lets see how many DOZENS telegram requests will be in my inbox when I wake up tomorrow....

[andremguia]

I am NOT kidding, this isnt even remotley funny> this is my inbox right now......

ALL telegram requests

[yvonnerochester]

I had a similar experience as well... the emails was later tagged as spam and deleted by Fiverr.

[vsal_frost]

I have had over 30 of these within my first week and im getting sick of it lol. as a new seller i have yet to get a genuine buyer and just get a TON of spam

[wandagiacomuzzi]

I need some info... I'm getting a lot of messages saying they need a freelancer for various translating jobs but they want me to contact them on Telegram? Beside that I can't write them back because the users don't exist anymore. This is so shady to me but I'm confused wondering if anybody knows what's the catch?

[moonstaredits]

53 minutes ago, wandagiacomuzzi said:

I need some info... I'm getting a lot of messages saying they need a freelancer for various translating jobs but they want me to contact them on Telegram? Beside that I can't write them back because the users don't exist anymore. This is so shady to me but I'm confused wondering if anybody knows what's the catch?

Never take communications and messages out of Fiverr. It's against Fiverr's ToS and probably a scam too.

[kosalarathnayek]

3 hours ago, wandagiacomuzzi said:

I need some info... I'm getting a lot of messages saying they need a freelancer for various translating jobs but they want me to contact them on Telegram? Beside that I can't write them back because the users don't exist anymore. This is so shady to me but I'm confused wondering if anybody knows what's the catch?

because they are scammers. don't reply to them

[akash9347]

Some one invited me on a telegram ID. Should i response to him? 

[foridh_hossain]

No, its breaks Fiverr rules, you should report it. its spam message

[jagannathroydip]

These are fake accounts but if you get a massage from a fake account Fiverr deletes the fake account and the massage becomes venice. 

[grayprogrammerz]

Telegram is part of darkweb. Its scam. Bet me, he will block you as soon you say: "Sorry I can't talk outside of fiverr".

[alteonaska]

On 12/29/2022 at 10:25 AM, grayprogrammerz said:

Telegram is part of darkweb. Its scam. Bet me, he will block you as soon you say: "Sorry I can't talk outside of fiverr".

I am new on Fiverr. I got a scam message inviting me to Telegram.
Little did I suspect it was a scam when I replied to them on Fiverr.
I was just about to text them on Telegram when I stopped, thought and checked the internet.
Phew, it was close call.

[sujanchandra22]

On 12/29/2022 at 12:03 PM, akash9347 said:

Some one invited me on a telegram ID. Should i response to him? 

 Same It happens few days with me.

[marialand]

they contacted me as well. I texted with them on Telegram and they offered 1200 $ per 30 pages (or smth like that), BUT first you'd have to buy their "special card". Though they have their website, the texts on it are in really bad English which is also a bad sign. So better stay away from those notifications! 

Edited January 26, 2023 by marialand

[ivansmith823]

Can anyone tell me why do you receive multiple orders but is mostly from people that offer Jobs, but they want you to go on Telegram to communicate and do work?  Scammy?

Edited January 29, 2023 by ivansmith823

[critzalide]

Yes, it could be a scammer.

Anyway, once a buyer contacts you on Fiverr, you can't work outside this platform. 

 

 

 

[sadekmiah30]

don't contact out side side fiverr. fiverr not allow contact outside. read fiverr terms of service https://www.fiverr.com/terms_of_service

[josue_maciel]

That's all truth. I join Fiverr yesterday and in 24 hours I receive 10 different messages in my box to go to telegram to better chat and go through the informations job.  I've almost fell in one believing that is like that. Happy to have a freelance job, but then they start to ask for security fee payment to do the job. The I founded the page here and inside of the company they claim to be, another page saying do not believe in negotiations from people using email without the official end like @icreon.com.

So I stepped back and from on only using Fiverr and do the negotiations through the platform.

By the way they come with different names inside of Fiverr some name followed by numbers and Telegram different names, but to me some of them belong to the same "fake" company call ICREON. Don't trust them.

 

Hope my experience can help others too.

[khyzarhayyat44]

Well It's my first week on Fiverr and I got like three customers only and all three of them were scammers who asked my to contact them on telegram, I'm so sad right now😔

[johanna_gw]

Hi All, 

I am getting quite a few messages from buyers wanting me to transition over to telegram or some other media, promising good money for work related to my gigs, but giving little specific detail.  I respond, professionally, within Fiverr and they ghost me.  I strongly suspect these are spam, bots or fraudsters so don't pursue them.  The first one I did pursue outside Fiverr (rookie error) and they wanted me to log in to a website with my email and email password which would then 'host' my email for me.  Obvs I didn't do that. Another wanted to pay in crypto.  

How do I report suspect bot buyer accounts? How does everyone else manage these? Is everyone else plagued by these?  I think it is hurting my response time and need to report them. 

Thanks

Jo

[imamiopial]

Hi Jo,

Anyone who asks you to go off the platform are probably scammers who want to evade the escrow system where Fiverr handles the transaction for you. 

If the buyer can pay outside the platform then can do the same within the platform so no good reason to go off platform risking violating rules and also getting scammed all together. 

 

You can reply to these messages with denial and add them to spam or block.