Removing "payment unverified" ads from feed?

[modvol]

Hi!

I'm a new freelancer here on upwork, and in my personal feed for jobs a lot of ads with the tag "payment unverified" show up. I'm not interested in these jobs, is there any way to remove those ads from my feed? The only solution I found is to do a manual job search with filters

[martina_plaschka]

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Ludvig W wrote:

Hi!

I'm a new freelancer here on upwork, and in my personal feed for jobs a lot of ads with the tag "payment unverified" show up. I'm not interested in these jobs, is there any way to remove those ads from my feed? The only solution I found is to do a manual job search with filters

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To me it makes no difference at all if the client verifies his payment method before or after his posts his job. 

[modvol]

Alright, so you've never had an issue with payment from those ads? My initial response when seeing the "unverified" tag is that those ads are not trustworthy enough, but maybe I should give some of them a shot?

[martina_plaschka]

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Ludvig W wrote:

Alright, so you've never had an issue with payment from those ads? My initial response when seeing the "unverified" tag is that those ads are not trustworthy enough, but maybe I should give some of them a shot?

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I've never had problems. Client are able to verify before hiring, but admittedly 99% of my jobs are fixed price where I believe it's impossible to hire before verifying. Your conclusion that they are not trustworthy is not valid and you might miss a lot of good jobs if you believe that. 

[modvol]

Thank you for your useful replies! 

[mwiggenhorn]

Most of my clients have unverified payments when they hire me.  I just tell them that I cannot and will not begin working until their payment is verified.  Usually happens the same day.

[colettelewis · Accepted solution]

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Ludvig W wrote:

Alright, so you've never had an issue with payment from those ads? My initial response when seeing the "unverified" tag is that those ads are not trustworthy enough, but maybe I should give some of them a shot?

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I have had several good unverified clients. Just make sure before you accept a contract that payment is verified.