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    Quote Originally Posted by gatoneli View Post
    Hi,i would like to say i understand you and believe you because indirectly i know how do you feel.Last year the same time in Spain one friend of mine who worcked for the same company he hade the same problem with small cuantaty of money.He choose other company to work and left the battle with freelancer because they are verry strong and they command.I would like to congratulated for your battel with them thinking you will feel better.I wish you sucses.
    Hello gatoneli and welcome to RealScam and this discussion. A lot of people have done just the same as your friend, they tire of the battle with freelancer, lose their money and move on. That makes freelancer the winner and Matt gets more money is HIS bank account. If a person starts to complain they seem to bring out the legal threats as do most 'programs' or 'sites' that are not operating 'within the law' tend to do. They call us who try to expose them, the "haters" and start pointing fingers, all you have to do is read some of the threads here in RS and you will see the familiar pattern.
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    What is the latest on Freelancer.com?? Anyone getting paid or questions being answered??
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    Freelancer.com cares when you make the case public. Been asking many times why is it so, haven't ever recieved an answer.

    They claim this person was a scammer from India. Okay, let's assume it. In such circumstances asked those questions. Gut feeling is they won't get through moderation. So far 4 (FOUR) were accepted. And I think it is strange for a website claiming to have 7 million users.

    Freelancer Blog

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    Apart from that I responded Ms Cassandra about all the bad karma around her former partner:
    Get a Hindu: THOUGHTS FOR MS C.


    And those points are valid no matter whether there was a scammer or not.

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    I received the message about response on FL blog, so I went there and made a comment also, looks like we are in a holding pattern ChaimS!!

    Sara0401 says:
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    March 21, 2013 at 4:08 pm



    While this is all convincing, the first person that pops up in Find Freelancer is one that goes by deepsniti and is from where – New Dehli, India. Profile picture is an avatar and there are raving reviews from people with no picture.

    deepsniti | Freelancer.com - Photoshp PHP ASP Flash Dreamweaver net

    The link might not be accepted but just look at anyone under Find Freelancer. If you apply for a job why would you not be ‘yourself’? As an employer, I trust this and will hire a fake identity? Don’t think so. Not sure about this whole concept.

    I found it interesting to learn that in checking the Find Freelancers, it is a list of profiles hidden behind an icon. Now why would a person looking for work have to hide behind a fake identity?

    Hire Freelancers | Freelancer.com

    Then check out the latest freelance jobs:

    Browse the latest freelance jobs and projects | Freelancer.com

    Many years ago, I might have tried for some of these things and actually did sign up as a freelancer at one time before this company. It was a much better setup than this one is and more trustworthy. I would not trust this at all. An unknown hires an unknown to place a bid on a project. Since I would not do this, I do not know the other steps necessary to bid on the project, do the work and have it accepted for payment. Well, I did some thinking on this today and came up with this.

    Reasoning behind complicated website:

    No one actually checks a freelancer out before they accept bids. Why? Well, here is one thought - if a person or group (as I believe it usually is) makes a bid for a project, gets accepted, does the work and waits to be paid. NOW, the company wants your personal information so they can prove you are who you say you are. As is possible in most cases, the person does not want to be identified and give out personal information. NOW YOU HAVE VIOLATED THEIR TERMS and your account will be frozen until you give them what they request. Can you check on the authenticity of the person or company you did the work for? Can you contact them directly? Did they pay freelancer for your work? If they did, why at the stage of the game do you have to give out anything other than your PayPal account for them to send you the money you earned. Were the hiring people fake also and you were charged fees for nothing?

    So now they have you. You send them all required information and the employer actually did pay the money to Freelancer but you are being called a fraud because you hid behind a fake identity and "so sorry, no pay", you have not followed their guidelines. Do not complain, if so you will be threatened with legal action against you. In the meantime, guess where your money went??

    These are things to think about in dealing with a company like Freelancer. This is my speculation and for those of you who have worded for this company, perhaps you can offer a better picture of it.

    What I can't accept is that in most cases where a complaint has been stated, Freelancer is never at fault, it is always the person complaining.
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    Recently, one post came to our attention entitled “Freelancer.com Scam – Part I : How $10 cost me $14000 – Among other misgivings and apathy of Freelancer.com Staff”. In this article, the author, EditorJCWriter, claims to be a freelancer called Jacqueline, from Kent USA, who has been a member since November 2012 and has a “growing reputation and stellar reviews”. Jacqueline puts forward some impressive qualifications:

    And she’s won some pretty big projects:

    Jacqueline then goes on the claim that their account was pulled up for a security check

    Subsequently, Jacqueline claims that the projects were made invalid and the funds in the account removed, leaving her with $99. The user, quite irate at this point, writes several more blog posts, culminating in a quite bizarre love letter to myself.

    Well, it’s a great story.

    If only any of it were true.

    You see, on investigation of this account, Jacqueline is not who she said she is. She’s not even an American. She’s never logged in from the US. She’s not even a “she”. It turns out that Jacqueline is actually Neerav from Delhi, India. Neerav is actually a scammer who has stolen someone’s identity, faked their profile and qualifications, and is attempting to commit fraud on Freelancer. The account EditorJCWriter has never won a $5,000 project, or a $7,500 project for that matter.

    What about this “nancysaumya”? Well, our account security team had good reason to be concerned this account as well. You see “Nancy” was not Nancy at all. Nancy, as it turns out, is also Neerav. We can only imagine what Neerav was trying to do before our account security team caught him.

    We treat the integrity of our marketplace as paramount. Scammers will go to great lengths in today’s day and age to rip people off. They will also go to great lengths to try to bully our fantastic support team here at Freelancer.com. I’m proud of our team here, and the length that they will go to stop the bad guys on the Internet.

    Oh, and one last thing, in case you think EditorJCWriter looks familiar:

    https://www.freelancer.com/users/4421442.html

    Nadine Schweigert, North Dakota Woman, 'Marries Herself,' Opens Up About Self-Marriage

    And nancysaumya will look familiar to our users in India, as the photo has been stolen from Miss Koyal Rona, Miss Teen Indian 2008.

    So, the scammer, being upset with us catching him, decided to post a few crazed rants on the Internet.

    To improve the integrity of our marketplace, today we’re announcing that we are taking a number of steps to protect you from people like this in future. Effective immediately, we are enforcing accounts to have the correct country associated with them. We have set the country on every account on the website to the true country that person is from. We’re doing this to stop people from impersonating others or misrepresenting where they are from. Over the new few weeks we will be taking further actions to prevent identity fraud.

    Secondly, we now allow every account to have a security phone number associated with it. This number will be used to verify important changes to your Freelancer account, such as your method of withdrawal, or name on the account. With this, we’re raising the bar on the level of security on your account, to protect you from hacking and phishing attempts. To set your security phone number, go to “Settings” under the “Profile” option in the menu.

    Make sure you protect your account and set it today!

    On the Internet, always be on guard. We’re here to help you but ultimately you should be careful- particularly where money is involved. Make sure you read our blog post on How to Avoid a Scam on Freelancer.com. Finally, don’t believe everything you read! Because that person that you’re talking to might not actually be who they say they are.

    Regards,
    Matt

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    All of you RS members know how some negative persons have complained about us now revealing our true identities and in most cases there is good reason. The bad guys will be all over us with threats. None of us are being paid to do this work.

    Why would a company establish contact with freelancers and projects with masked clients? People are expecting to be paid for a job or project they bid on and get accepted, I am sure they are not working for free. Also, we know how people will just grab a picture or icon from the internet and use it as their own. Why not? No one has asked them to be 'open' for post a legitimate photo or asked for ID until AFTER a project has been completed!! Is it just me or does anyone else buy this??
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    Perhaps Freelancer needs to verify their accounts with these freelancers. I just visited one of them and looked at portfolio, one of the sites listed for verification was sayitwithstylecards dot com - DON'T GO THERE!! I got an intrusion alert of high risk!

    esolzsales | Freelancer.com - .NET,ActionScript,Advertisement Design,Agile Development,AJAX

    Username: esolzsales


    Verified


    Location: Kolkata, India India


    Member since: Dec 2003

    If you place your mouse over this info, you will see on each one that they have made a deposit. Otherwise, I am sure they would not have any kind of profile up there. Very interesting....
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    Scratchy, am I missing something on their alleged security protocol? The story about "Nancy" above appears to me that she/he was hired to do a job and did the job. I would think in almost any legitimate situation the worker would be paid. I could argue that maybe screening would take place before you allow someone to bid on contracts to make sure laws are followed and people are competent. But after, who does that except people who don't want to pay?

    This just seems like a real nightmare for a lot of folks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ribshaw View Post
    Scratchy, am I missing something on their alleged security protocol? The story about "Nancy" above appears to me that she/he was hired to do a job and did the job. I would think in almost any legitimate situation the worker would be paid. I could argue that maybe screening would take place before you allow someone to bid on contracts to make sure laws are followed and people are competent. But after, who does that except people who don't want to pay?

    This just seems like a real nightmare for a lot of folks.
    It is beginning to look as if this company should definitely be investigated and scrutinized for their business practices. Exactly, if they 'hired' Nancy to do work without any screening and she did the job, was paid and then they decide they need identification, what kind of company does business like that?? Just looking through the few profiles I got around to, they are all 'made up' and everyone I checked was from parts of India.

    I believe you have it correct, it is a nightmare for those people who have completed projects and then denied payment because of some technicality.
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    Here is one person telling of different aspects about freelancer.com - I hope you take time to read the entire article, what a rip off business practice!
    Case 1:
    You get paid for a project - 200 USD. You request withdrawal via paypal for 200 USD. Reducing 1 USD, they schedule 199 USD, to pay in 3 weeks. Now, within that three weeks period, you are awarded another project worth 100 USD, from the same or another employer. As you accept the project, Freelancer will immediately charge you 10 USD (or according to your subscription). Where will they charge from? Not from your credit card this time. They will charge from your Freelacer.com balance instead. Now the balance will be 200 USD - 10 USD = 190 USD in your account, where your previous request for the transaction was 200 USD. With the below message, Freelancer.com will cancel your payment request! "Not enough funds to complete your withdrawal request!"

    Llovizna: Is Freelancer.com a complete scam, or a partial scam?
    You may request for 190 USD again now. They will schedule your payment now. But it will be scheduled again for a day after 3 weeks, again! Wait for 3 more weeks!
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    For all freelancers who have been ripped off by Freelancer.com please join in the Class Action Suit against them. This is your chance to try and get back at least some of your money.

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pya...I1o50/viewform

    Please spread the word!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by scratchycat View Post
    For all freelancers who have been ripped off by Freelancer.com please join in the Class Action Suit against them. This is your chance to try and get back at least some of your money.

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pya...I1o50/viewform

    Please spread the word!!
    Great find and I completely agree with it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by scratchycat View Post
    For all freelancers who have been ripped off by Freelancer.com please join in the Class Action Suit against them. This is your chance to try and get back at least some of your money.

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Pya...I1o50/viewform

    Please spread the word!!
    So who's form is that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by surfer View Post
    So who's form is that?
    Someone who has been ripped off by freelancer.com and they do not want to be identified at present. Can you blame them?? Freelancer.com and Matt Barrie are very powerful with all their lawyers.
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    Matt Barrie back in the news again!! When is someone in Australia going to start looking into the business practices of freelancer.com??

    Cookies must be enabled. | The Australian


    CEO, Freelancer.com

    ONE of the most vocal members of Australia's technology industry, Matt Barrie has not been afraid to speak his mind about the state of it and those people running and regulating it.

    He does so from a solid basis of credibility, with his online outsourcing service Freelancer.com reporting revenue growth that recently hit $66m. Freelancer.com now has more than 270 staff and offices in Sydney, Manila, London, Buenos Aires and Jakarta, and Barrie's goal is to make Freelancer.com the "eBay for jobs".

    Barrie has also been a keen advocate for technology entrepreneurship and the promotion of computer science as a career path at high school, and teaches a technology venture creation course at the University of Sydney which he is keen to expand. He is also seeking to set up a free online education program for high school students to give them a basic understanding of computer science.


    “An absolute national imperative”: Matt Barrie’s epic rant on Australia’s IT investment | Delimiter

    Some very interesting comments at bottom.
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    Anyone interested in this subject should come and like the page in Facebook.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freel...397688?fref=ts
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    Quote Originally Posted by scratchycat View Post
    Matt Barrie back in the news again!! When is someone in Australia going to start looking into the business practices of freelancer.com??

    Cookies must be enabled. | The Australian


    CEO, Freelancer.com

    ONE of the most vocal members of Australia's technology industry, Matt Barrie has not been afraid to speak his mind about the state of it and those people running and regulating it.

    He does so from a solid basis of credibility, with his online outsourcing service Freelancer.com reporting revenue growth that recently hit $66m. Freelancer.com now has more than 270 staff and offices in Sydney, Manila, London, Buenos Aires and Jakarta, and Barrie's goal is to make Freelancer.com the "eBay for jobs".

    Barrie has also been a keen advocate for technology entrepreneurship and the promotion of computer science as a career path at high school, and teaches a technology venture creation course at the University of Sydney which he is keen to expand. He is also seeking to set up a free online education program for high school students to give them a basic understanding of computer science.


    “An absolute national imperative”: Matt Barrie’s epic rant on Australia’s IT investment | Delimiter

    Some very interesting comments at bottom.
    ACS Media Statement in response to Matt Barrie's rant in LinkedIn:


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    ACS Media Statement


    In reaction to an article by Matt Barrie of Freelancer.com, on LinkedIn.com.

    The Australian Computer Society would like to clarify some factual errors that appeared in a post by Matt Barrie on LinkedIn.com .

    The focus of the post was on ICT education in Australia and in particular the future engagement of young people.

    The ACS applauds Mr. Barrie’s passion for supporting ICT education in Australia, which is an area we have championed and advanced since our inception in 1966. We are open to constructive conversation with industry leaders around helping to inspire more young people to pursue careers in ICT.

    However, we would like to clarify that the event in question was not an ACS event but was a forum hosted by NICTA and chaired by Simon Kaplan who works for NICTA and is also part of the AIIA in Queensland.

    One ACS representative attended the meeting, Vice President Paul Bailes. Paul arrived to find the brochures and material already distributed.

    Secondly, the documents that Mr. Barrie has posted on his article are not an Australian Computer Society brochure, but are documents belonging to the ACS Foundation, an independent foundation founded in 2001.

    While the ACS Foundation evolved from the ACS over a decade ago, it is a legally separate stand-alone entity with its own board and governance structure and CEO and management team.

    What the ACS Foundation, its board members or CEO publishes and says in the public domain is not controlled or authorized by the ACS. The ACS is proud to have a continuing association with the foundation and any Organisation seriously interested in the future of ICT in Australia

    The ACS will continue to reach out to industry leaders and stakeholders including Mr. Barrie, and looks forward to constructive discussion and debate on how we can further promote ICT in Australia.

    https://www.acs.org.au/news-and-medi...edia-statement
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    Quote Originally Posted by baylee View Post
    Great find and I completely agree with it!
    Thank you very much Baylee!! They are trying to keep as many people as possible from being ripped off by freelancer.com.
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    Just in today!!! Another complaint against freelancer.com!!!

    http://www.complaintsboard.com/compl....html#c1329228 (I have received a message that complaintsboard.com is down but I am still getting it.)


    I needed a website built and I posted it on Freelancer seeking bids. I received many offers, The one I wanted to use asked for more time to provide a proposal and I granted it. He never got back to me and the bidding closed without my making an award. On Thursday out of the clear blue I got an email from Freelancer recommending I hire a named freelancer. I ended up re-listing the project for bids and they came in right and left. After some discussions, I selected one, worked out the details and made the award for $2, 000.00 with established milestones. Using PayPal, I deposited $2, 000.00 into my account on Freelancer. When I tried to escrow $400.00 to set up the first milestone payment, I found that my $2, 000.00 had been frozen by Freelancer. I checked my PayPal account and found that they had in fact paid my $2, 000.00 deposit to Freelancer and withdrawn $2, 047.39 from my bank account. I tried to withdraw my money from Freelancer and was informed I needed to pass a security process. I provided the requested information and then the system locked up on me. I was unable to get any information from Freelancer and was left with no option but to dispute the charge with PayPal to recover my money. Almost instantly, Freelancer sent me a notice advising they would not be able to refund my money unless I closed my PayPal dispute against them. Like I fool. I closed the dispute. I contacted Freelancer again and asked for my refund. I was informed the refund could not be made as they needed further information. I asked what they needed and was told to wait for the correct Freelancer department to contact me. I asked when they would contact me and was told that the correct department would need to provide me with that information. After several hours of going around in circles and getting nowhere, I tried to file another claim with PayPal. The written response was that due to the fact that I had settled my claim with Freelancer, I could not re-file with PayPal. I then contacted PayPal by phone and was put in touch with one of their fraud investigators. I was informed the matter would be cleared up in 12 - 24 hours. It's now been 15 hours and I'm still waiting.

    So, as it stands right now. Freelancer has stolen $2.047.39 from me. My website is not being built. The nice freelancer I was contracting with to do the job is sitting on his hands with empty pockets.

    What really gets me is I can't even contact anyone at Freelancer to discuss the situation and seek a solution. All I can get is some one at Freelancer texting messages to me that I need to wait to be contacted by the correct department.

    As far as I'm concerned, Freelancer is out to cheat both the people paying money to get a job done as well as the individual wanting to do the work.

    I'm not about to let these Freelancer steal over $2, 000.00 from me when all I was doing was using their "service" to get a project I needed done.

    I'm very proud of the fact that I've been able to write this without using some of the words and names I wanted so badly to use.

    I have both the time and the resources to obtain justice and prevent Freelancer from cheating me out of over $2, 000.00 they have taken from my bank account without out providing ANYTHING in return.

    I hope others can learn from my mistake and avoid falling into Freelancer's trap and having their money stolen.

    My name is John V McLure, I live in Athens, Texas, My email address is jmclure@aol.com. My phone number is 214-882-7833. Oh, and my wife is an attorney. :)

    Thanks for listening. Contact me if you need any information or would like to join me in stopping this abuse.


    For those of you who think some of the info posted here leads to anonymous users, I did a little background looking on this one:


    https://www.facebook.com/tscrooks

    https://www.facebook.com/john.v.mclure

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zoolu...414482?sk=info
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    Freelancer now has my attention.

    I'll do some digging and find all I can.
    If anyone has any leads for me to go off, please message me or let me know here.

    Jason

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poyol View Post
    Freelancer now has my attention.

    I'll do some digging and find all I can.
    If anyone has any leads for me to go off, please message me or let me know here.

    Jason
    Welcome The Jason!!

    A friend reminded me of checking with Alexa and they have a lot of red down arrows on there!!



    Freelancer.com Site Info

    And, check out the reviews!
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    Well, I can't really speak to who has been ripped off or not, but they definitely have a strange way of doing business.

    Although I've been registered at freelancer for nearly 7 years, I had not done any work or hiring there.

    Recently, I hired a contractor to do some banners for me.

    At one point, he said:

    OK, I want to accept the project but my account is empty so if I accept the project my account will be a negative dollar account and may freelancer.com suspend my account after some days, I want to ask you please if it's possible release $10 of $50 to my account after my accept-ion
    I was fine with that, but not really knowing how freelancer worked, I had to ask later:
    Why would you accepting a job from me make your account go negative? That's weird.
    His reply:
    freelancer cash it's user's for projects please check this link: Find freelance work and jobs | Freelancer.com

    at the bottom of page, under "How much does it cost?" title
    That's just a screwy way to do business.

    Why charge the freelancer up front for an accepted job? Why not just wait until it's paid and take your cut then?

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    Thank you for your information Surfer. From all the complaints made online, I can understand why the person would ask some upfront money. Freelancer charges a fee just to list with them and they take their percentage (to my understanding) as soon as project is accepted. What makes it worse, whether or not the company (say you) pay the person for doing the work to your satisfaction, it does not mean that the person will receive the money. As other people have stated - and they are not under oath - unless they can prove they who they really are, FL will 'freeze' their account until they meet all the requirements for processing. If they ever receive their money, it will only be a portion and will take months of deliberation and way and see. Sounds like investing in a Ponzi and hoping you will get all the money as shown in digital accounts.

    I hope you will keep us updated.

    It would be good to have more people let us know if they have done work for or with freelancer.
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    Re: Freelancer.com withholds my money

    How much does it cost?


    To bid for work, register for FREE on Freelancer.com, or become a paid member and get additional benefits. When you receive and accept an offer you will be charged the following fee, depending on your membership type:

    •Free and Basic members pay $5 USD, or 10% of the total project cost, whichever is higher
    •Standard members pay $4 USD, or 5% of the total project cost, whichever is higher
    •Premium members pay $3 USD, or 3% of the total project cost, whichever is higher


    Hourly Projects are only charged the percentage rates shown above, not the dollar amount.
    Full-time Projects are exempt from ALL project fees

    You can pay by Credit Card, Paypal, Skrill (formerly Moneybookers), WebMoney, Wire Transfer and money other regional banking methods.

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    Re: Freelancer.com withholds my money

    I found this very interesting and clipped from an article in The Global Headhunter on February 20, 2013.

    "Like many internet businesses, Freelancer.com could be based anywhere in the world. If a housewife in Kansas hires a web developer in New Delhi, the location of the intermediary website is irrelevant. Freelancer.com is based in Sydney because Barrie is. He describes Sydney as “the best city in the world to live”."

    Why do they always picture him as an arrogant heavyweight??
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    Re: Freelancer.com withholds my money

    Quote Originally Posted by ribshaw View Post
    Scratchy, am I missing something on their alleged security protocol? The story about "Nancy" above appears to me that she/he was hired to do a job and did the job. I would think in almost any legitimate situation the worker would be paid. I could argue that maybe screening would take place before you allow someone to bid on contracts to make sure laws are followed and people are competent. But after, who does that except people who don't want to pay?

    This just seems like a real nightmare for a lot of folks.
    Ribshaw, I believe you will find some of your answers at this blog:

    Here is one person who is determined to take freelancer to task and I applaud their bravery and would like to see others who have been ripped off to join in this effort.



    should not believe everything that you read on the net

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    I have been thinking for some time as to whether the stupid and misleading post on freelancer.com’s blog needs to be indeed answered as the facts presented in the post are totally misleading and most of them are not even worth commenting on. Still, just because people like Valerie Scott are trying convince everyone into believing that I am a scammer, I am going to reply to the ‘imaginative conjectures’ that they have tried to use to explain the accusations leveled against them.

    But to put things into perspective about whether I am a scammer or not. Let us compare the number of links against freelancer as opposed to the ONE link where ‘Matt’ has called me a scammer. Here is a small list of the links where a lot and I mean A LOT of people have complained about the scam that is being run under the garb of this ‘legitimate’ business.

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