At this point, it's outright disgusting Fiverr makes practically no attempt to do the bare minimum to prevent scammers from setting up shop on their platform. A very simple reverse image search on the images used on a gig catches 90% of fake sellers/scammers.
Heck, I'll even tell them how to do it.
1. When someone wants to post a gig it goes through a short review period so a real person (hire one QA person) can spend ten seconds reverse image searching the images on gigs to verify it is original work.
2. If found in violation and depending on the severity of the violation, just IP ban them if it appears obvious the user has no original works. That would result in most of the scammers moving on to other platforms instead of putting in the effort to get a new IP.
3. Over time the number of scammers would fall drastically as a result, as this method in tandem with normal reports would make scammers stop wanting to use the platform as scammers (like hackers) are looking for easy marks, not difficult ones.
4. Have a QA person pose as a normal buyer to test gigs from new accounts, to ensure they don't try and violate the ToS through up charging for services described. Thus weeding out dishonest sellers. The QA would not have to go through with a commission, just when the offer is made by the seller back out and decide if the user needs to be warned if they violated any ToS rules when discussing their services.
The only justification I can see for not doing any of the above is that Fiverr gets a few $ off the top of every sale. It does not require much effort to set this up.
