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Abhishek U Community Member

A New Fraud on Upwork

Hello Everyone

 

A new fraud came that my new client have gave me a link to buy the proxy services for him and I had a 50% doubt on him so I have played smart used the unsupported non visa card and the moment asked me make the payment he sent me the offer
and promised me that he will pay me later

and the moment he found that he cant take out money from me then he ran away and declined the offer

please check his messages of all the freelancers he is doing the same thing with all of us

 

notice - his location is USA on upwork but his timezone is GMT +5 which is not of USA offcourse

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Adrian's avatar
Adrian C Community Member

If a client ask you to spend money to work for them, or on their behalf, it's a scam.

Christian's avatar
Christian M Community Member

Scams through Upwork are becoming a plague. I've had 5 attempts of scam in the past 10 days. I have raised my concern to Upwork support.

 

Meanwhile, as a general rule, never accept any proposal of downloading apps, giving out personal details, credit cards, wallet etc. 

If I client says it's mandatory to accept such proposals, he's not a real or serious client.

A serious client who posted a job on Upowork won't deny your request to keep the messages and payments within Upwork

Annie Jane's avatar
Annie Jane B Retired Team Member

Hi Abhishek,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us. Please note that any financial transactions outside Upwork is against ToS.

 

We highly suggest reviewing our ToS, reading these tips on how to avoid questionable jobs, and this post from our Community member, Wes, about top red flags for scams for you to keep yourself safe in the marketplace. Should you also encounter any suspicious user activity again in the future, please send us a flag so the dedicated team can review it and take action as soon as possible.


~ AJ
Upwork
Abhishek's avatar
Abhishek U Community Member

I want to share it to the world to safe from him

Akhona's avatar
Akhona S Community Member

This scamme just tried with me , then proccesded to block my account when i refused to use my own funds to purchase anything .

 

Akhona's avatar
Akhona S Community Member

I was so exited thinking it was going to be my first Job 

Samer's avatar
Samer B Community Member

Report it to Upwork