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[mandyvddolder]

Hi Community,

 

I recently joined Fiverr and received a message yesterday from someone with the username telford66, asking me to join on Telegram and inquire for more info on the project there. That seemed strange to me. Why not on this platform? Anyway, she then directed me to another person, a project manager from yet another company who has the details on the project... I googled on reviews about this company and found not so good reviews on them. They send me a contract because I want to protect myself from being scammed, their words were, ' just work with us and you will get paid', huge red flag to me. I then asked if we could jump on a videocall to see who I am dealing with, no response. The emails provided by them are not valid. I don't know, but everything about this just yells SCAM to me. Anyone else had this experoence? And does Fiverr know about this?

 

Mandy

[mr_basak]

It's happened with new seller. No problem. 

[mandyvddolder]

1 minute ago, mr_basak said:

It's happened with new seller. No problem. 

Ok, meaning what exactly? They are a SCAM? Or...?

 

[mr_basak]

Yeah , that was a scam. 

[uk1000]

29 minutes ago, mandyvddolder said:

asking me to join on Telegram and inquire for more info on the project there. That seemed strange to me. Why not on this platform?

At the top of the inbox page when you get a new message it says (or does on mine):

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For added safety and your protection, keep payments and communications within Fiverr

The terms of service: https://www.fiverr.com/legal-portal/legal-terms/terms-of-service

says:

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Requesting or providing Email addresses, s***e/IM usernames, telephone numbers or any other personal contact details to communicate outside of Fiverr in order to circumvent or abuse the Fiverr messaging system or Fiverr platform is not permitted.

So never contact anyone outside of Fiverr as it would be against Fiverr's rules and could get an account warning. If someone asks you to contact them on Telegram you can say it's not allowed because of Fiverr rules and can report their post if it seems an obvious scam.

Edited March 13 by uk1000

[fahadislamjuel]

When you hear someone say they want to communicate with you outside the forum, immediately report them to Fiverr and then block them.

If you don't, you highly risk having a negative impact on your account.

Best of luck!