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I want to share my experience and need your advice as well. I am working here for more than 5 years and completed 600+ projects successfully. i always tries to follow TOS. so, the story is that one month ago i got a message from a client and he said that he used to work with me in the past but his fiverr account was disabled and he created new account. the client is not a scammer and seems to be working on real projects. i don't know why his previous account was disabled but i saw this thing multiple times that clients come back with a new account. and they want to work on a genuine project. 

now, he asked me that he want to work on a project with me but that is a time sensitive project. i replied him lately and he then said that he started working with some one else on that project. i said its OK. after a few days, his developer gave him the code that was not working fine. he (developer) was not able to solve a problem in it and he (that client) asked me if i can help him. i provided free support and their issues got resolved and he was very happy and was regretting as well that he did not hire me earlier. 

later after multiple days, he contacted me again and asked me to fix an other script that was not working. now, at this point, i did not know the issues in his script. i asked him that let me check the code and find the issues. i checked the code and the issues were smaller and i fixed them on the spot and sent back the code to him so that he can check it and if it is OK then he can pay me 10$. he then took some days to check and came back with few minor changes and i did those changes quickly and sent back. 

he then asked me to send the custom offer and he will pay for the work i done. i sent him the offer. he accepted it. after some time like 20 or 30 minutes, i delivered the files. he then accepted my work and left a very good review. this part ends here. 

i then moved on but after a few days, i got a warning from fiverr stating that i am involved in buying/selling activity to boost rating/level falsely and therefore, i am being warned for this. this surprised me as i never thought about it. i have hundreds of 5 stars reviews and i even don't need to buy fake reviews/rating. i contacted customer support and asked them that why i got this warning. they gave me the order id for which i got this warning. by the way, this was the only help they provided. this was the same order which i mentioned above. i thought since there is no sufficient activity on the order page, therefore, they thought that this was a fake order placed just for the rating. 

i then managed time to go through all the chat and took screenshot of the messages where we actually worked on the project and i fixed the script to get the work done. i thought that now they will understand it and will remove the warning but interesting story begins here. 

Baseless warning from fiverr and no help from CS with strange behavior

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