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New FINANCIAL SERVICES category is a MASSIVE IDENTITY THEFT ring


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I have gone 24 hours with no response to the ticket requesting to delete personal financial information provided to a fake seller. 

Looking at the advertisers, almost none are verified, but all are advertising services which require you to share bank account numbers, tax ids, contact information and everytthing needed to get access to bank and investment accounts or steal credit. 


FIVERR launched this new category without proper consideration.  This is a whole invitation to financial data stealing.  Users presume some level of accountability for sellers, not total anonymity.  I understand that FIVERR doesnt want liability for verification of credentials.  However, they need to ensure that buyers can pursue sellers for actual financial fraud and financial data theft that can be used to drain bank accounts and do identity theft.  The minimum would be just a more prominent notice rather than just a FAQ article at the top of the FInancial Services category.   That wouldnt cost them any money unlike expanding customer support.

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This new category was not thought out.  It is a category which REQUIRES buyer to share detailed financial information.
A new buyer assumes that sellers at the very least are in the country they say and are a human.
FIVERR performs ZERO verification by default.

The tax preparer I worked with said they were in the US but there were warning signs right away, but not soon enough. 

The 5* review gave a false sense of security. SUrely Fiverr requires a real bank account account and a tax id to become a Seller?

No financial services provider would claim IRS credentials if they didnt have them?  WRONG!!!!

My campaign here is for FIVERR to put a prominent and unavoidable notice at the top of the category before communicating with sellers (waiting for the order is too late as information is requested ahead of the order) to indicate buyer must perform their own verification.  I'm not asking for them to do the verification (they should but I guess they wont.  The trust center is a joke.  No response to tickets after 24 hours) or even for live or faster support response to critical issues.  Just a simple notice at the top of the page.  Zero recurring cost to Fiverr. 
 

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