That's not going to help much because, these days, most of the scams being run by clients are 'chargeback' scams, where they put a verifiable payment method on file and Upwork flags them as 'verified', but after the freelancer does the work, they go to their bank and have the charge 'reversed' through the bank, literally stealing the payment back from Upwork and the freelancer. The solution, all along, has been to require clients to go through the same PHOTO ID verification that freelancers go through, because it will be much harder for scammers to just keep creating 'new' accounts everytime they get kicked off the site, and people are much less likely to break the law when you have a copy of their driver's license or passport. Right now, all a client needs to create an account is a valid email address, which anybody can get within seconds. So, scammers get kicked off the site, create a new email and new Upwork account, and rip some more people off. MOST people don't have the money, means, technology, or know-how to keep rapidly producing Photo IDs with holographic laminate to keep opening new Upwork accounts. Everybody on this platform should be going through ID verification. It's that simple. If Upwork had ID verification of these clients running these 'chargeback' schemes, they could do what any other company would do if they observe somebody committing bank/wire fraud: Make a criminal referall to law enforcement. However, you can't take 'action' or make a criminal referral if you didn't even bother to find out who the client really is.
