Hi Kimberly,
Thank you for flagging this for us. I checked this and the project has already been taken down because it was in violation of Upwork TOS and action has been taken on the client account.
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re: "Funny story is another messaged me this same thing this morning and I asked if they knew of the guy I was working with yesterday."
In most cases, scammers don't know each other, or don't know each other well. The scammer community is sometimes described as "tight knit," but it is quite large. There are too many people in the community for them to all know each other.
They share the same scam scripts and scam packages, which are circulated widely in the scammer community. So seeing the same scams, even with exactly the same wording, doesn't mean that two different scammers know each other.
The first episode of "Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller" (produced by National Geographic) is particularly worth watching if you are interested in the scammer community. This episode doesn't cover the SPECIFIC scams we see most frequently on Upwork, but the Upwork scammers are part of the same industry. This is currently streaming on Hulu.
Preston H wrote:re: "Funny story is another messaged me this same thing this morning and I asked if they knew of the guy I was working with yesterday."
In most cases, scammers don't know each other, or don't know each other well. The scammer community is sometimes described as "tight knit," but it is quite large. There are too many people in the community for them to all know each other.
They share the same scam scripts and scam packages, which are circulated widely in the scammer community. So seeing the same scams, even with exactly the same wording, doesn't mean that two different scammers know each other.
The first episode of "Trafficked with Mariana Van Zeller" (produced by National Geographic) is particularly worth watching if you are interested in the scammer community. This episode doesn't cover the SPECIFIC scams we see most frequently on Upwork, but the Upwork scammers are part of the same industry. This is currently streaming on Hulu.
Preston, I love true crime, so thank you for the rec! Found something to watch when I can't sleep!
