Telegram prepaid tasks, a scam?

[johnpaulbalanza]

I kept receiving messages of buyers offering jobs by contacting them through Telegram and they want to pay me a huge amount for a simple task of translating text images to Word document.  Is this a scam?

[Zahid I.]

First of all, generally, having conversation with a buyer outside of Fiverr communication toll (Fiverr Platform message) is prohibited.

So, avoid contacting buyers outside of Fiverr.

And the work details you shared, most people reported this is actually a scam!

Stay aware of this kind of proposals.

[johnpaulbalanza]

Thank you sir Seven. I was just curious because I have been receiving messages like this when I first published my gig, a few days ago.  I was almost tempted to accept their job offers because of their too good to be true offered payment for a simple task but knowing that they do not want to transact in the Fiverr platform, it sounds suspicious to me and I decline the job offer.

[michmikaia]

6 hours ago, johnpaulbalanza said:

I kept receiving messages of buyers offering jobs by contacting them through Telegram and they want to pay me a huge amount for a simple task of translating text images to Word document.  Is this a scam?

If you receive this kind of messages, mark them as spam.

[puspojit_biswas]

I believe that it's a planned scam. The only intention of that person is to lure you to join in telegram with him and make a conversation out of Fiverr. Having a conversation outside of Fiverr is strictly against Fiverr TOS. I would like to just report and block them immediately. When we are on the internet not only on this platform, we have to be very careful about them.