Abusive client, posts multiple job posts of the same content, asks for free work

[#1]

Hi all,

Is there any way of warning/reporting about the client account who:

- posts multiple duplicate job posts (slight wording differences, but essentially the same)

- invites a high amount of freelancers to his job posts

- asks for free work

- when you decline to work for free he reaches for abusive, highly violent and hateful language, assumed ethnicity insults etc.

...except for reporting directly through messages and reporting his job posts?

This client has a low hiring rate as well (72 job posts, 46% hire rate, 2K total spent over 9 years), and he openly brags about how he already has 30 freelancers working for free... Which I can only take seriously due to the fact that his stats are speaking volumes. 

Anyways, before anyone accuses ME of getting into this mess, I accidentally applied for his job post (it was almost the same as the one I wanted to apply for), and I saved it for later to look through the client stats to decide if it is worth it. Even though my proposal wasn't 100% logical for his post he contacted me and the rest is history. The situation escalated pretty quickly, he used all the insults he could think of, I reported all messages before he deleted them, and he blocked me after calling me a "typical Serbian villager". I laughed a little and that's that. 

This is not the only case, as we all know, but I feel like there's no benefit in reporting anything. He just posted a new duplicate job post, and I don't even have a chance of blocking his future job posts - I don't want to waste my connects and time in case I can't recognize him. 

This wouldn't matter so much to me a few months ago but in light of all the new features, circumstances, and very unfavorable financial consequences some of us are facing this year on this platform, I feel like things are getting only worse every day. Battling scammers, and listening to all the whiny stories of "7 figure annually" clients, who are not only demanding free work but spewing unspeakable insults if you aren't agreeable already feels like an unpaid job. 

[#2]

Hi Natasa,

I'm so sorry to hear you went through this. I will go ahead and forward this directly to the appropriate team so they can review the client account and take any necessary action as per our processes.

[#3]

Andrea, thank you. I hope that will help us all.
Edit, a few days later: Well... just as I thought. No matter if the client gives you peanuts money, you won't do a single thing about their behavior. That's how desperate things currently are. And you expect us to be loyal... just marvelous.