Fraud

[mayar_elsherif]

Hi there! The job proposal was to rate a page and get money in return. I naively thought that it was a page that was just getting started or needed to be more popular and needed reviews. However, the page turned out to be a scam based on the "actual reviews" of other people, and I don't want to take part of doing that, and I want to report the employer as she is using Upwork as a way to get 5-star-reviews to continue scamming people. What should I do?

[g_vasilevski]

Hi Mayar,

Could you please reach out to me via PM (click on my name) and share the details with so that our team can investigate it further? Thank you.

[petra_r]

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Mayar wrote:

Hi there! The job proposal was to rate a page and get money in return. I naively thought that it was a page that was just getting started or needed to be more popular and needed reviews. 

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In which alterative universe would leaving fake reviews ever be acceptable, even if it's "a page that was just getting started?"

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What should I do?

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End the contract and do not write a fake review.

[mayar_elsherif]

While I do understand your pov and agree with you, I have seen pages that wanted to be more popular to sell things or to get opportunities to advertise and receive money. As you can see, I checked the reviews before I did anything to ensure that it's not suspicious.

As for the other question, it is because I am new to Upwork, so I wanted to know whether ending the contract will affect the job completion or my feedback..

[petra_r]

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Mayar E wrote:

I wanted to know whether ending the contract will affect the job completion or my feedback..

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It will affect your Job Success Score, yes.

You should have checked the details before you accepted the job, not afterwards.

[mayar_elsherif]

I didn't acept the proposal yet. If I reject it, does anything happen?

Edit: I am sorry. Since the money is in escrow, I got confused, and I assumed that I already got the job.

[wescowley · Accepted solution]

If you have not accepted the client's offer, you can decline it with no consequences at all.