Freelancing Tycoon

**Ariblue** · 03-02-2012, 11:12 AM

Hello freelancers, I have a suggestion for every freelancer that is tired of bidding on projects which are either fake copies of original projects or are new projects which are fake in nature.

1: Report all the projects which are fake copies of the original projects. You can do that by searching the project name.

2: Report the project if you receive a captcha work pm.

3: Some of the captcha work people tell you to contact them so that they can talk outside the site report them.

4: Sometimes they are not captcha work people but referral harvesters for other sites.

Well If anyone has any ideas please share. I could only think about the 4 mentioned above.

**pristinewriting** · 03-06-2012, 11:40 AM

I do this almost every day. As a freelance writer, my focus only on that niche.
A new way of spamming is to post an entire article as a project with no work
being offered.
I have lost count of the number of violation reports I have sent so far. The employers must be charged small fee upfront before they can post a project. May be, that is one way to curb the menace.

**oscommercein** · 03-09-2012, 05:51 AM

Some people posts same project at multiple times, and select the lowest bid.
Some people post big projects in very low budget.
What to do ????

**Runaway80** · 03-19-2012, 09:49 AM

I do this every day too. I hate the people that posts identic and fake project.

**Bigworker** · 03-20-2012, 12:09 PM

Its a very disgusting ,avoid this

**dawncyrus** · 04-16-2012, 03:56 PM

Hello, I am new here & not to sound desperate, but I really need to supplement my income fast. :-) I have been applying for jobs that require me to type out a book in MS Word, but when they message me the job details, they are for these captchas. Am I understanding correctly that I should report these people? Seems these are all I am getting out here too. Nothing with the information the I have bid for.

Oh, is there a way to reverse the order of the posts? Thanks! :-)

**liviakecskes** · 07-08-2012, 12:16 PM

I absolutely agree with this action. I focuse on data processing, data mining and I'm fed up with these fake projects. Every secound project related this field is fake. I report the violation every time, but as I realised the number of these fake projects are more and more..
Why the freelancer stuff can't do anything? I suggest to make a bigger fee of project posting after the secound, thirt etc, project within a short time...and maybe check our reports more often...I've reported a user many times but he/she is still on the site....