A new kind of scam?

[sapism05]

I didn't know if anyone had experienced this, so I was contacted by an account about a job. The problem is, he asks one question in each message, like "can you do this?", and in the next message "can you do that?". I said it would be better if he said everything in one message, because I had other things to do, and replying to his questions annoys me, not to mention the time difference could cause my response rate to drop. But he keeps asking the same way, so I ignore him.

Not long after that, another account contacted me and asked for a job that was similar to the first account, even the language style was the same. Curious, and a little suspicious, I responded to the conversation. But in the end, he asked me to send the work for free and later he would pay me double after getting the money from his Kickstarter. Obviously I rejected it, and because I was suspicious that his wording style was similar to the first account, I confronted him with "you and your other accounts better stop wasting my time", and his reply was just "hahaha".

So I decided to mark both as spam accounts. But a few minutes later a new account contacted me and offered the exact same project. Not only that, he also asked if I was a scammer because he had been scammed 10 times on Fiverr (I mean, how could he be scammed 10 times with an account that wasn't even 1 month old).  I ignored him and reported the account this time,  hope I won't get a scam like this again.

[rawque_gulia]

5 hours ago, sapism05 said:

But in the end, he asked me to send the work for free and later he would pay me double after getting the money from his Kickstarter.

Instead of calling it a "scam," I'd rather give it the name "big dreams of a kiddo". I run a Discord community server, and I encounter these people every day (mostly kids). They start a project with big hopes of success and due to their immaturity, they ask others to work for them on a royalty basis (believing they'll earn a lot of money after the project launches).

So, 'most of the time,' their intentions aren't to scam anyone, but rather due to their immaturity and overly optimistic hopes for their projects, they do these things. But regardless, whether it's a scam or not, staying away is the only way to protect yourself from any troubles.

[omorhasan74277]

Same here, I also run a discord server, and find these guys every day. They usually don't scam but they have a tendency to cancel easily and has a following pattern of chatting.
1. They want long time relationships (or so they says, probably don't they just want a cheap work done)
2. They have absurdly low prices (acts like they did not do market research)
3. "Show me update", "Get to work", Ï need to confirm from higher ups before placing order, so update me please" .......... these are the catch phrases I encountered the most so far.
4. Different accounts every time.
5. Likes to brag about account levels.
6. My opinion probably a ground of Nigerian kids, running a call center or ad farm of sorts getting orders from various sources and trying to do business on fiverr and upwork.

[sapism05]

1 hour ago, rawque_gulia said:

So, 'most of the time,' their intentions aren't to scam anyone, but rather due to their immaturity and overly optimistic hopes for their projects, they do these things. But regardless, whether it's a scam or not, staying away is the only way to protect yourself from any troubles.

Maybe you're right, but I don't know, this isn't the first time I've met someone offering to collaborate, in fact, I've collaborated twice. The difference is, when I refuse (literally refuse, or ignore the chat), people usually back off and stop contacting me. But this account instead created 2 other accounts and pretended to be someone else while offering a similar project. First, pretending to be someone else to me means there is an intention of fraud. Second, if they are not scammers, how stupid are they? Do they think I will accept their offer if they keep creating new accounts and offering the same projects?
However, I agree staying away is the best answer

[sapism05]

33 minutes ago, omorhasan74277 said:

Same here, I also run a discord server, and find these guys every day. They usually don't scam but they have a tendency to cancel easily and has a following pattern of chatting.
1. They want long time relationships (or so they says, probably don't they just want a cheap work done)
2. They have absurdly low prices (acts like they did not do market research)
3. "Show me update", "Get to work", Ï need to confirm from higher ups before placing order, so update me please" .......... these are the catch phrases I encountered the most so far.
4. Different accounts every time.
5. Likes to brag about account levels.
6. My opinion probably a ground of Nigerian kids, running a call center or ad farm of sorts getting orders from various sources and trying to do business on fiverr and upwork.

Well, in my case, they didn't ask for low prices, they said they would pay me 2.5 more lol. Joking aside, actually, that's also what makes me suspect that this is a scam. Usually, people who invite collaboration will usually open the conversation by introducing themselves, provide a link to their project (or studio), then offer collaboration in the hope of getting a discount (or bundle discount), but still, If I agree they will make an order in the end. Meanwhile, this person expects me to trust him completely and work for free without any guarantees.  The crazy thing, in my conversations with these 3 different accounts, not a single project link was mentioned