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Hi, everyone! I'm new to Fiverr, but I wasn't born yesterday. The scammers here are running rampant; I mean, getting over 180 scam messages in a week is like, wow!!!

We all know the email for complete payment, fake screenshots and “verification” link that asks you for you card full info, so here's my solution to instantly detecting if I'm dealing with a scammer, so I can block him instantly and don't waste my time: post a keyword in your gig's description; if the person contacting you doesn't begin the conversation with your keyword, it's a scammer and you can block him instantly. Scammers will never read your gig's description as an interested client would do and they all follow the same few idiotic scripts.

Fiverr should implement a feature to make clients begin the conversation using the keyword in your gig's description, something like an advanced CAPTCHA so you, as a seller, know you're talking to a real person interested in what you have to offer and not a scamming madarchod copy-pasting the same script, or a bot.

180+ scammers blocked in my first week on Fiverr

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