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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. 

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