Sanja D wrote:
I'm ashamed to admit that I've never looked for copies of my profile. Being a graphic designer, and writing my profile overview myself - I doubt that anyone in their right mind would want to copy that.
On the other hand...I don't even know how to look for it on upwork...since my profile is not public...
That in part, is my problem, I made it public.
However, Upwork insists that its regular freelancers verify their identity, but is quite happy to accept thousands of non-earning people who have no scruples about copying top-rated freelancers, which can actually can be extremely detrimental to the copied freelancer.
Apart from the fact that, if we are public, Google latches on to our profiles and attributes them to other Upwork freelancers (who to be fair, have not copied anything). My earnings and my address have been freely distributed (if incorrectly) across the Google board. So ... what can I say except to warn all serious freelancers not to go public on Google - which does not exonerate Upwork from blame who should have something in place to prevent continuous copying from taking place.
I have changed my overview and set my profile to Upwork viewers only. But the damage has been done.
