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I am a new seller on Fiverr and my account is three months old. I am on fiver full time except for 6 hours of sleep every day. I got about 30 messages in the last three months. But unfortunately most of the buyer messages were fake. 

Among them are
 1) They send a message and I replied instantly but later they didn't get any response. 
2) They message and reply second but leave again without any discussion.
 3) They message and talk about the job but leave when I send the offer with their opinion & permission also
 4) They come to collect funds for homeless people
 5) They come to get tips about fiverr like how to get order on fiverr and how to improve their gig etc. (maybe they don't know about the forum!). 

Many of them message that they are from US, UK, AU or CA but when I check their PTS it doesn't show their real PTS but it shows wrong and this is confirm me the buyer was fake! 

Some say do the work first and I will order you later. 

I'm getting frustrated day by day! Even if the message doesn't come, I don't get upset. It seems that I'm not timing the fiver properly, so maybe the message doesn't come. But if such fake messages are coming then I am getting frustrated day by day. 

Note: I received messages from 30 people out of which I personally recommended 2 to come to Fiver. And they both buy my service one of them buy service regularly. Also, another person buy service from me but has now moved to other sellers. and one i get from fiverr gig. And more than 25 fake! 

This is reducing the impression & click of my gigs! And I'm getting frustrated. Does fiver have any option to take legal action against them? 

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