Mar 28, 2022 10:02:46 AM Edited Mar 28, 2022 10:38:35 AM by Silvana O
I have been a freelancer on Upwork ever since it was Odesk (11+ years or so). I am a top rated freelancer and Upwork is my main income source.
Never have I seen so much SPAM in this website as I see now. From the last 2-3 weeks I only receive spam invitations and even Upwork sends me emails with job suggestions including spam (clients asking for you to contact them via Telegram, WhatsApp etc.). It's like a button was pressed and Upwork changed. I am genuinely surprised that 10 out 10 invites I receive lately are fake. It's disconcerting to say the least!
Also, what happened to payment verified clients? It seems there is a bunch of bots posting the same job over and over again trying to scam freelancers! I am genuinely afraid of accessing the platform and catching virus or having my computer invaded, it's very serious what's happening and it's reached a point that just "we are sorry and we are trying to fix it" doesn't cut it.
It's reached a point that it became unberable. I work with writing, editing, translating articles and there are simply no "real" jobs there on the feed. It feels Upwork was taken by trolls.
*I am not paid to spend the whole day flagging posts, although I do when I answer invites.
Please Upwork, solve this issue!
Mar 28, 2022 10:04:32 AM by Peter G
"It's like a button was pressed and Upwork changed."
Yes, that is beyond obvious. Now they should unpress that button.
Mar 28, 2022 10:06:10 AM by Silvana O
No kidding, Peter!
Upwork seems to be going downhill, unfortunately. A lot has changed, and for the worse!
I miss how simple it once was.