Freelancer.com

They create fake client profiles, posts large amount projects, awards them to a freelancer, take 10% of the amount as freelancer.com fee (where the freelancer who accepted the job haven't got a single $ from the client.), cancel/delete the project or suspend/delete fake client profile and earn smartly.

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Freelancer Technology / Freelancer.com / Getafreelancer.com — accepted offer of a project and got charged $150 as freelancer fee

Hello, Amit.
Let me check on this.
What's your username?
amitmishra2u

What's the project ID or the username of the employer?
https://www.freelancer.com/projects/project-17752760

As I see here, the employer "piotrbbb" is the one who deleted the project.
Their account is also still active.
I also see that you were able to communicate with the employer outside our website through a third party app.
Please note that communication outside our website is a violation of our terms and conditions.
This is why you received a warning via email from us.
It is best if you will always use the Private Message Board as your means of communication because any transaction and communication conducted offsite are unsafe and beyond the scope of our support.
he wanted to have a call and screenshare to show me the work he wanted thats why we need to go outside freelancer

This being said, we have no way to check if both parties are still communicating, and if the project has been completed outside of our site and whether or not payment has been made through other means.
Therefore, we would be firm in implementing our policy about the project fees being non-refundable regardless of the project's status.
but his requirement was something different then I supposed and thats why we havent got this work done and after requesting him for so many days he have cancelled the project
sir why you will bother about the project as you have already got the fee
where as other platforms only charges fee to freelancers when they get money from the client
you charge the client when they submit the job or when their job got accepted by some freelancer that is good but what the freelancer do if after the fee deduction the client gone

You're the one who initiated the offsite communication. You sent a message to the employer saying "s-k-y-p-pe".
By spelling Skype like that, I'm sure you're aware that offsite communication is against our Terms and Conditions.
However, you still circumvented our chat by spelling it that way.
this chat was before he awarded the job to me
if you can see
and he awarded the job on freelancer
if I had to take it outside then why would we have paid you fee?

Before or not, you still violated our Terms and Conditions.
That does not change.
we freelancers also need security thats why we trust you
if the project is cancelled by the client without paying a single $
why should we freelancers bear the fee ?

Because we charge a project fee.
from both client and freelancer
then ask the client to pay me the fee I got charged by freelancer.com on accepting his offer

The project fee is charged after a freelancer "accepts" a project.
yes sir thats what I am saying

When a freelancer is awarded a project, they have 36 hours to decide on accepting or rejecting it.
what is the surity that the client was not a fake client created by freelancer.com itself?

You can chat and discuss the project's details within those 36 hours.
what is the surity that the client was not a fake client created by freelancer.com itself?

During the 36 hours, you can ask the employer to complete their account verification.
that can be done by the people of freelancer.com as well
I am asking how to know if the client is fake or real?
how to find if the profile is not created by freelancer.com
why should I pay the fee if I am not earning a single $

If you're basing everything on that conspiracy theory of yours, then anything I say will just be you saying "How can we be sure that it not freelancer.com making fake accounts".
So what's the point of this discussion.
I am already paying you membership fee every month

Paying a membership fee doesn't mean that you can violate our Terms and Conditions.
if I am getting the job awarded on freelancer.com and freelancer.com taking a 10% fee then who is responsible if the freelancer not got paid a single $ even after paying $150 to looting freelancer.com?

Under normal circumstances, we would have given you a refund of the project fee once the project has been canceled. However, since you communicated outside our website, we will not be refunding the project fee.
As I've mentioned earlier, we have no way to check if both parties are still communicating, and if the project has been completed outside of our site and whether or not payment has been made through other means.
I knew it everything being done on freelancer.com where they dont have screensharing option at all so that client and freelancer can do everything over there without going to any 3rd party app and if they do this then freelancer's polity got spoiled and you cant claim for refund
very very very good
can you show me where the hell freelancer.com have screensharing option?
even fraud freelancer.com does not allow to call the client before accepting the offer
what happened?
not able to find the screensharing option on freelancer.com
?

I am a freelancer from freelancer.com I was a victim of a employer by the name bassonjames he had me do a weeks worth of work I summited everything used the hour tracker through freelancer that was supposed to ensure payment and this person unverified his payment method the day I was supposed to get paid and I was robbed of 744 dollars all together he blocked me refuses contact and support would do nothing about this I'm so very angry and even supplied proof of my work and unpaid invoice and no compensation was given or offered they told me basically oh well look out for this bassonjames he's just trying to get people to do his work for with no intent of payment!

Freelancer.com (formerly GetAFreelancer, Scriptlance and vWorker/Rentacoder). Here is a company that verifies a client's financial standing/sources and marks them as financially verified on their profiles before allowing them to hire people through their website. The scamming starts when the verified client pays for a project and then Freelancer.com takes their cut and refuses to pay the rest to the Freelancer (who has worked her a** off probably for weeks). Is this not a scam especially when the reason given for this is that the client's finances were still being verified?

This is scamming of contractors since the client has already got their service and Freelancer.com has already deducted its commissions. Mathew (Matt) Barrie or someone in the finance/billing department ought to address these issues as critical and not just hire Filipinos who do not even have direct access to the concerned departments and who get paid to tell you to wait indefinitely or to search through and quote pre-written terms and conditions and pre-written responses.

"Ms Michelle Hammond once published an article titled "Freelancer.com founder dismisses scam claims" (If you do like to read it, you need to register. It is free, simple and they deserved it as they signalized that Freelancer.com may have its very bad side). Since the posting of this article there have been thousands of complaints raised on similar issues See here; /link removed/ and one wonders if this is not a sign that the low level support team at Freelancer.com has the capacity to address these issues."

My main concerns;
- Why should Freelancer.com mark a client as Financially Verified if the client is not?

- Why should Freelancer.com block withdrawals of finances that are already in a contractor's account and yet make deductions of their service fees if the client funds source is questionable?

- Why should they block contractors from withdrawing funds long after the projects have successfully ended and positive feedback has been given to the client if this is not supposed to be their trap for the next contractor?

- When a contractor raises such an issue, why does the support person close the ticket even before the issue is resolved?

#. Anyone who has direct contacts to the Freelancer finance department or to Mathew (Matt) Barrie, please send them to me. If anyone should contact me from this company, it should be someone who is qualified enough to solve my problem by looking at the problem history or someone who has direct access to the department that has this capacity and not some Filipino who is hired to refer to company terms and condition that have no relevance here.

This site takes money from job seekers as a subscription and also has audacity to take fees per job.

In less than 1 month on two occassions they have taken fees for jobs that do not exist and on one occassion they simply look the other way and make excuses and transfer funds out of my account to places unknown.

They cannot explain their invoicing or charging system and when i was told of a refund recently for one of 7 odd charges, i asked for a credit note to show what a refund was for,

I was appaled when after 1 hour of chat the operative did not know what a credit note was and could not understand that if freelancer can raise an invoice for $15 and take money from my bank account or paypal and the invoice is found to be bogus either for a non existent job or some system glitch which happens often on their system then the remedy is to raise a credit note for the equivalent amount and refund the amount and the credit note should read taht it is credit note 12345 for a reversal of xyz fee of $15 against invoive 54321 of whatever date and this is the right way, any other way is tantamount to shady accounting and loopholes for theft.

I am also well informed that others use the site to sweep unsuspecting prospectors into pyramid job schemes, or job owners into paypal scams and much more.

Its a bizaare thing and the only reason I am staying on freelancer is because i believe that by the smallest of follies doth a giant fall and i have become rather determined to take them to the cleaners.

its the only way they will learn that job hunting is not a brownie point scheme where you rob folk that are seeking work for any reason and expect them to work like slaves under any circumstance and fiddle accounts in exceedingly vast ways.

i have used people per hour for years., i have never once been charged a penny by them... same with guru and many others.

a massive lesson needs to be taught to these folk and I welcome anyone who has been scammed financially on this site to contact me for their details to be added to my shortlist.

England has a launderette, its called the county court.

what a horrid way to treat people.

Not so complicated to see that this site doesn't have any moderation. We can choose between projects handle by scammers, fake projects or stupid people who wants the moon for a few bucks. I have an average of 7 fake projects (they are canceled, frozen for weeks or the like) with 10 bids. That incredible.

They are so good in charging money but when the time come for withdrawal they give lame execuses.
I worked on 8 projects.
When i gave a withdraw request after 15 days they cancelled it without even telling me.
When i asked them about it they said the employer is not following the guidelines of freelancer.com.
What is my fault if the employer is not following there guidelines.
I talked to employer he said i have already paid you.
They are cheater. They deducted $50 from me without any reasons when I withdraw the fund and not ready to back the fund in my account. When i asked them about it no reply comes from their side.

Now what i can do? i suppose nothing . There should be some company who can visualize what these people are doing.

Freelancer.com is truly a scam site.
after my first withdraw request they limited my account and asked for some documents, I uploaded that documents and my account verified but after that every time that I requested a withdraw they canceled my withdraw and supports are just like a robot that just says click on this link, after some days they limited my account again for no reason and again the support system wasn't responsible for that.
I uploaded the documents again and a message appears that we will review this documents in 48 hours, but they didn't, some days passed and I saw no response from them, and also every time they closed my ticked and did not answered
they just stole 500 usd from my account !

I have a freelancer.com account that has been limited the day that freelancer.com should transfer my money that I had withdraw it.
and when I sent my documents to verify my account they rejected all of them even my ID card! I think something sounds wierd and I am affriad that freelancer want to take my money that I gain by projects that I have done in freelancer, com for himself.And I see this is not the first time that happens.by searching on the internet I saw many people has this problem with this website.
Please help me to solve this problem

https://www.change.org/p/nasa-tell-nasa-to-boycott-freelancer-com

Thank you. Before start the bid with freelancer.com, I saw this feedback. I wont be bid any project from freelancer.
I'm looking earn some money via online/web. But I could not select the correct way which one is best and honest. I tring to get the google adsene and it is failed due to my account submission has been failed.
Guys can any one share the idea to me. my contact mail id: ammue04@gmail.com

Here is the details how freelancer is harassing people.

They closed my account without any reason. My account had 42 reviews and 400$ in cash and $500 escrow. They took all. They are just cheater. I have all proof against them.
First they told I have many dispute. I sent them the details that clients were not paying after getting service. So its their fault.
Then they stopped saying about dispute. They said you have violation report. I told them to show the proof. They failed to do that.
Then they said you have multiple account. I told them that is problem was happened 6months back. And that was solved. Then why again you harassing me.
After that they starts replying that: The decision was taken by higher authority. We can't do anything.
They are just a cheater.
0 mins ago by shawats 0 Votes

Hi,
Freelancer.com, why don't have a talk here in-front of all? Prove you are right and I was wrong.

SCAM, FRAUD getafreelancer and freelancer

getafreelancer and freelancer are fraud website as how they are making fool to customer

Here is the scenario

1) I have bid on one project in past I was winner for that project and it was $5000 cost

2) As soon as I was selected getafreelancer and freelancer taken $150 fees from my account

3) I had started project

4) I had worked two month for this project and client was paying me at getafreelancer and freelancer through escrow

5) I had completed project and send all source file to client and he paid me

6) After two week getafreelancer and freelancer taken back all money from my account

7) I asked support team why so? than they told me that I need to contact my client when I contact my client he said me that he paid me getafreelancer and freelancer and he was right he paid me on getafreelancer and freelancer so no question again to him

8) I ask again to support team why my balance is debited again they told me to ask my client and they said they will not help more

9) Now I lost two month work plus fees taken by getafreelancer and freelancer $150 I ask them to credit fees and they refuse to credit it

10) So here getafreelancer and freelancer making dummy project and pay to developer and taken back money as well charging for fees

11) So later I come to know the client to whom I was working its was getafreelancer and freelancer dummy client account and they are posting dummy project on getafreelancer and freelancer and just collecting fees %3 from developer

12) getafreelancer and freelancer is fraud website they are posting dummy project from their dummy accounts

13) After this I moved to ODesk and Elance they are far better then get a freelancer and free lancer

So Be aware from get a freelancer and free lancer they are fraud company

Share this scenario with others as many as developers in your group so they can not capture in getafreelancer and freelancer scam process

Thanks

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Getafreelancer.com is a scam site. one customer had selected us, gave us project details, kept communicating ON and OFF, kept paying ON and OFF and then suddenly disappeared for a month.

He then came back and told he wanted to continue and we were busy doing other projects. we told him it would take more man power and time and requested additional payment which is a fair business practice considering his erratic communication.

He then asked for us to complete the website for the payments he made which was 50% of what he had initially negotiated.

When we declined to continue, he silently reported to getafreelancer.com and guess what they did? they reversed payments from our account ( we curse ourselves for keeping payments there ) and sent back all the payments he made without trying to investigate who is at fault.

Make no mistake getafreelancer.com - we already started the process of finding your company and are going to take a legal course to get justice served.

these kind of unauthorized and unethical actions will not happen forever and we will spread out word to the world through internet to know that your site is a scam website that only has personal interests.

I have expected to get my money ($100) at Nov, 24 but at Nov, 21 my account was blocked with no email notification. When I try to log in I see message that my account is suspended and that I should sent them scanned copy of my ID. At Nov, 22 I have sent copy but for today (Nov, 25) there are no response from getafreelancer.com

Agree totally. On the 5th of this month (october 09)when I checked my credit card account online there was an unauthorized transaction from GAF for $190. I emailed them about it they said they would look into it but guess what, when I tried to follow up on it, they showed the status closed, even though the matter was not resolved. On the 10th when I tried logging into the account my account was suspended. On the 11th (today) I received an email from them saying that the milestone/escrow payment I made regarding a project I had posted before I noticed they took money from my account was cancelled and returned to me (still nothing from them as to why they took $190 from my card via Paypal on the 5th, mind you).

Here is where it gets strange. The payment was 'returned' to my account, but when I enter my login details to go to the site to see if the payment has indeed been returned, they have closed my account so I cannot login. Now, I have no means following up with them, unless I create another account, and they frown upon multiple account creation so technically I've lost something like $500 with these con artists between the $190 taken from my Paypal card for something I know nothing about and the $150 for the project I had running that they supposedly returned but have blocked my access to the account so naturally I cant get the money. They have no phone number and now I am learning the address is a fake.

Stay away from them. Deal with people whose addresses are real, customer service real and you can get a live person on the phone. They embalzon an LIVE SUPPORT button on their site but all it does is take you to their email form so their support is not live particularly when they take days on end to answer, if they bother to answer at al.

I am presently having a problem with getafreelancer.com in that I transfered money from credit card (via moneybooker) to my account five days ago and have not been credited even though money was taken. I have now sent two tickets but have not received a reply. There is actually no way of contacting anyone at this website.

Some people also control whether you get paid by saying something is "results based" if you can not confirm the results they simply to not pay. You may have worked and did everything just as they askes, but if they simply say that they did not get the results- you do not get paid.

In my case after posting a job there my account was mysteriously blocked. They said I had access to dispute resolution and could contact them .

However on attempting top contact them I kept getting back to needing to log in with a valid account! This was a catch 22, and I still do not know what I did wrong.

They are not just irresponsible, These guys appear to be insanely irresponsible, and negligent

GetAFreelancer offers dispute resolution services since November 22, 2008, which helps in such cases as yours. So if there's any problem over escrow payment which was made after this date, it can be resolved either mutually between service buyer and provider or by involving GetAFreelancer.

They have banned my 10 years old account.

They i had $200 in that account.

No security, fraud and scumbag founder and team

Fayyazs A.@fayyazs789, failed to make blueprints of my vehicle. Please return my prints of the vehicle and it's rear wing assembly. Do not make any facimile to any of my drawings and return my money. Jemmy Lee Sturgis. jemstur65@gmail.com

My freelance profile is sign in error occurred to slove the error sir 24.01.2024 09.30pm

Freelancer suspended my account after I sended all the documents for verification.

I have about 400 dollar in milestones. I hear stories here that they steal money. I hope this isnt true. I am sending them all the need documents but every time they say I didnt send it..

Ill keep everybody informed.

Hello sir,

my account has been closed.i am a moin.i want to work here.there have making some mistake by me.i tried to no other mistake are there happen by me.please give me a chance to recover my id back

I have assigned the task to https://creativesolutionsandco.com company over call in pakistan for prepare company profile but after a month and many follow up and advance payment still i did not get my file yet now since 2 weeks no one receive my call nor they are responding of my messages

Hello, my account was closed on the pretext that I violated the terms. They are telling me that they can't do anything. I feel this is unfair for an account that has earned them more than 15000$ as fees.

https://cx.freelancer.com/tickets/1749831

Same case they closed my account and steal my money in it

i cant withdrawn my money and contact the customer

They did not even indicate what I violated, I never violated their terms.

Can you double check it? I know there's something with this. I just created my account and sent them my verification and yet they closed my account for no reason.

Freelancer.com - My account has been closed due to inactivity and not updating my personal documents in my profile. Today I live in the United States. Can you please release or activate my account?

My ticket ID is: OQDZ-1118-XNUD