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400 USD STOLEN @ Freelancer.com!
400 USD stolen from one of the freelancers. I contacted Freelancer.com, sent them many emails, tickets, skype communication as the evidence of fraud and violation report, all that more then 3 weeks ago. However, absolutely NO intention from their side to solve my issue! This freelancer clearly stole my 400 USD and they did nothing to stop his fraudulent behaviour or punish him in any way. They EVEN ALLOWED HIM to give me a bad review, to his victim!
Very disapointing for user (employer)!
Freelancer- Big Scam
Hi,
This is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I came across this post and I want to know what happened, so I can personally assist you. If you can send me a detailed story of the incident, then that will be great. Just email me at [email protected] with your username so I can also review your account.
I hope this helps and I wish to hear from you soon.
Freelancer.com - the biggest scam
Very serious and responsible I work 120%. On freelancer.com since 2008, but employers were allways happy and my ratings is still 5.0.
Since the site passed into the Australian hands, the freelancer.com strongly degraded. A lot of things changed: the number of projects increased, new functions were added, greed of the freelancer.com grew many times, scam scale increased. The administration isn't capable to control monetary operations. They have no tools for this purpose. It is ok for the site, if after a good review and released payment, freelancer.com reversalt he transaction depriving you earned money. You do not even notified about it. They quietly remove the money from your account. I will say more. Freelancer.com can reversal the transaction after the money is withdrawed and keep your balance in a deep minus , and then they demand from you to put the money back on your frelancer account. As a result the freelancer.com will remove from you 110% (10% fees, which were removed at the beginning of a project + 100% of your earned money that were returned to the employer). Sounds absurd? Today it is quite so on the site. To all claims they answer in the manner „We can do nothing. A chargeback has been filed on the employer‘s payment provider. We only take fees. We would recommend that you contact the employer directly and ask to pay again.“ All of these milestones - complete nonsense! An employer can post a project, create a milestone, get the project done, release the money and after get all money back. Freelancer.com promotes scam. What milestones for? To give the appearance of reliability? After a project is done, you won‘t see the money anyway. In addition, you pay 10% fees. Cool! Today the freelancer.com is not the guarantor of honest execution of deal. It is just a message board with the job offers, where you take all risks upon yourself. Freelancer.com only can guarantee that you will pay them all fees for the opportunity to be deceived! It is a pity to lose rating and reviews, but it is even more a pity for the nerves. There are alternatives and it is time to leave freelancer.com. You are sure it is no concern of you? Just type in google „freelancer.com scam reversal“.
Hi Alexander,
I've read your post and I understand where you are coming from. I also respect your opinion as we are free to express how we feel. However, I would like you to know that necessary actions were given to users who violates our Terms and Conditions as we also follow rules on the site.
If you may, please send me an email to [email protected] with your username so I can also check your account and explain further what really happened.
I will be waiting for your response. I hope you can give me the chance to help you out.
You pay, you work, employer stole your work, support leave you alone...
Freelancers, stay away from this site! They absolutely don't care about you! The only things they look are money (% on bid, % on payments, % on withdrawals).
You (as freelancer) didn't have *REALLY* any security about your work will be paid in full from an employer.
Yes because *ALL* payments made from an employer can be reversed on *ANY* time!!!!!!!! And yes, their FAQ told exactly opposite.
They wrote in a ticket I opened because 320$ (yes, 320$!!!) was reversed to my employer that:
"Thank you for contacting Freelancer.com Support.
The reversal was caused by your employer's account issue. Since we already sent an email to your employer, and you have a copy of it, you may contact your employer directly outside our site to settle this matter."
So, if an employer fail, the freelancer, EVEN AFTER he did his job went slapped!!!! ...and, remember, you pay to be a freelancer.com...
Really a bad bad bad bad experience...
Again, stay away...
Same thing happened with me over and over again and I am screwed up. Freelancer are Theif
Hi John Candy,
I saw your post and I can feel how disappointing this must have been for you, since you delivered the required output and having payments being reversed because of reasons that are far beyond your control. I want you to know that we are following security measures on the site. Once a user has violated any of our Terms and Conditions, the concern team will do necessary action to put a stop to any unethical manner.
I hope you can email me at [email protected], including your username so I can personally explain to you what happened in your case.
Thank you and I am looking forward to your response.
Hi Savannah, even Marcus of Freelancer.com offered his help... and... all I got is lot of replies to an unsolved ticket...
Freelancer.com violated his TOS and permitted to an employer to stole my work and my time...
can reply directly to this commend... No more emails to anyone on Freelancer.com, just a waste of time...
To freelancer.com "support" apes
Why are you even bothering to answer here and try to keep a good tone, WHEN if an active freelancer on your SCAM website wants to solve an issue you act like you have 1 brain cell, always answering with "Is there anything else?".
Typical conversation between a freelancer/employer with a staff of freelancer.com support:
Support: Hi, my name is Ape, how can I help you?
Me: I am contacting you, because you charged me 6 times in 6 days for membership plan, for which I paid 10 days ago. I would like to have my money back.
Support: Is there anything else?
... Damn how stupid and ignorant are you?
STAY AWAY FROM THIS WEBSITE
I speak as somebody who had trust in this provider, and I thought that all negative reviews on the Internet are fake until I got a piece of the cake. Really disappointing...
STAY AWAY
Hi Namaika,
This is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I came across your post and I want to personally check what happened to your account. Please send an email at [email protected] with your username so I can do something about your issue at the soonest time possible.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.
Hi Namaika, you should look to *ALL* other tickets support staff close without solution...
Hi Namaila, you should look - then - to *ALL* tickets support staff closed without any resolution...
Negative Balance in My Account
I have an account on Freelancer.com. My account name is SeoNcontent. One guy awarded me the project, the ID is JacobMills. This guy didn't paid me a single amount.
Now, my account is showing negative balance i.e.-$25. Today., I deposited Rs 600 INR in my account. But freelancer.com is still showing the same balance. May I know why?
Regards,
Popi
Hi Popi,
My name is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I came across your post and I want to make a follow up on this concern. As checked, your problem with the project has been resolved last January 2, 2014. I just want to know if all your issue has been addressed? If not, please reply to my email as I have sent you one using the email address registered to your account.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.
Hi Popi,
It's because that's their policy. So I suggest you to find other better services, such as odesk.com, elance.com …
Locked Payment
I did 3 projects, and employer's mario101010, sunip99 and bitcoinsil created milestone and released it. Projects completed, feedbacks given. Everything was fine. When I requested withdraw, they didn't let me. And said, you employer's mario101010, sunip99 and bitcoinsil had issues to settle.
Wtf?
If my employer's had some issues, why my already earned payment has been blocked? By earned I mean, its in freelancer hands. Why do I have to pay for employer's issues/mistakes? This is the stupidest site I have every faced. Will never work on it again. Greedy freelancer company want to take away my money, so be it!!
And Kristopher, don't you dare telling me you will resolve this issue!! I had many tickets going on, nothing good come out of it!! Stupid support center with stupid excuses!!
FREELANCER is 100% a SCAM - they NEVER resolve any matter.
'Kristopher' sends emails that mean NOTHING; Circular tripe full of 'we are doing our best to resolve' BS. PEOPLE PLEASE DO NOT GO NEAR THIS SITE.
please keep this updated so others can learn from it. I almost gave my personal data to them. Thankfully I found this review.
Hello Ali Nawaz hiraj,
My name is Savannah from Freealancer.com.
I understand how frustrated you are as you have worked so hard for these projects. In line with this, I would like to look further into this matter and check any for updates about your case. Please provide your username so I can check your account at the soonest time possible.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.
Hi Sheri Nutter,
My name is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I want to help you out with any concern you have related to our website. I hope you can provide a brief explanation of your issue and your username so I can check your account right away and provide proper recommendations if possible.
Thank you and I will be waiting for your answer.
freelancer.com; ridiculously low bids and errorneously cut and dispute amounts due
www.freelancer.com gets most traffic of freelancers, old and new, in view of its convenient and easy to remember domain name. In my opinion, that's the first trap laid out.
I am seriously considering sticking to www.odesk.com and www.elance.com as they are more publicized, professional and have far more good reviews. I will close my www.freelancer.com account for good due to a couple of reasons.
First, freelancers on www.freelancer.com have to bid and compete for projects. Freelancers from third world nations, like India and Pakistan, have ruined the market.
They are more dominant in bidding as they can go really cheap to a level that is "ridiculously" low. They are able to stoop so low due to favorable exchange rates.
They surely need to establish “minimum bid” policy on projects and quality control on freelancers.
Second, www.freelancer.com takes such a long time to process my payment and at the end of it, it keeps disputing several payments on work done with all sorts of excuses.
As a result, this held back the whole sum that I have requested "cash out".
I have been doing freelancing as a full time job via www.freelancer.com for almost three years now. As my numbers add up, it keeps disputing and delaying payment of amounts due to me. It's habitual. Recently, they froze my account at their whims and fancy.
I give a big NO recommendation on www.freelancer.com to anybody. DO not waste your time and effort. Consider www.odesk.com or www.elance.com. They honor payments promptly.
Hi Mimi Safira,
My name is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I came across your post and I regret to know that you feel that way towards the site. However, I want to thank you for your honest opinion.
I want to explain everything in detail, if you will allow me. With that being said, I hope you can provide your username or an email address so I can address these issues accordingly.
I hope you can grant me this chance to provide assistance to your concerns. I don't want your 3 years put to waste without doing something to help you out.
Thank you and I am looking forward to your response.
SCAM FREELANCER.COM
Hello Tanas,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. We already have received the ticket/email sent to one of my colleagues Freelancer.com email address.
It is with a regret to hear that one of your payments have been reversed due to one of your employer's account issues. I will assist my colleague assigned to your situation in having this reviewed further.
Please wait within 24-48 hours for an initial response to your concern.
Im waiting one month and nothing !!! FREELANCER.COM IS SCAM WEBSITE.The staff of tickets respond you with Copy-Paste messages and very rude !!! STAY AWAY FROM FREELANCER.COM
HI Tanas,
My name is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I saw your post and I want to check the status of your account and also to assess the ticket ID you have generated for the site. If you think that our Support has been rude to you, then I apologize in behalf of our Support Team. I hope you can provide the ticket ID or your username so I can look further into this matter at the soonest time possible.
Thank you and I will definitely wait for your answer.
Too late
Negative Balance!!!!!!!
I was a long time Vworker worker. VWorker is acquired by freelancer.com and I am ruined.
I was selected to work on a project. The employee had 0 rating. I finished the work and sent an invoice. The client was bad and did not pay anything. After some day, I saw my account is showing negative balance!!!!!!
Don't use it. There is no escrow service!!!!!!!!
Hello Sudip,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
It is with a regret to hear that your account has been suspended due to negative balance caused by one of the employers awarding you a project and no communication sent further after accepting the project.
I would like to know more of this concern and help you resolved it. Can you send me a direct email to [email protected] containing the username of the employer who posted the project and the Project ID itself and we'll have it looked at.
I look forward to your response regarding this matter.
Negative Balance in My Account
I have an account on Freelancer.com. My account name is SeoNcontent. One guy awarded me the project, the ID is JacobMills. This guy didn't paid me a single amount.
Now, my account is showing negative balance i.e.-$25. Today., I deposited Rs 600 INR in my account. But freelancer.com is still showing the same balance. May I know why?
Regards,
Popi
My review for freelancer.com Is a BIG Negative10000000000 ..AVOID this SCAM site if you value your TIME and your MONEY.
Hello Fatemeh,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It is with a regret to hear that your account has been suspended due to one of your employers filing a payment reversal over their deposit which has been used as Milestone Payments for you.
I would to get a clear picture to be able to understand how it happened then. Please send me an email to [email protected] with your username and the Project ID posted by the involved employer.
As soon as I get your email/ticket, we'll have it analyzed & reviewed further to determine what really happened.
I look forward to your response regarding this matter.
Account limited Employer verification issue
Hi
I am working on freelancer from last 1 year I have many employers with 60+ feedbacks with ongoing jobs. Now I am hatting this website most of my clients told me not to use this website switched to others but now It is becoming true that freelancer is seriously not good.
Few days ago I bid a project and employer accepted my bid and hire me I worked hard and did job well employer was happy and gave me good feedback after few hours I received an email from freelancer that please verified yourself your account became limited
I submitted my verifications they accepted and verified my 3 verifications method (Name DOB,GOV ID through passport, key code verification, and project question verification) except these 2
1st I have told freelancer verification center about all my project description and steps which I have took to complete it but now they are saying that my employer will get verified after that your account limitation will finished I have other projects going on working on them. If my employer failed to get verified what will happen to my account and ongoing projects as my employer is not replying back as verification process is of 45 days what will happen after that
Now I am at address verification in this case I have submitted my bank statement of 12 month old freelancer told me to upload new one within of 3 months I visit bank and get the new bank statement which was different from old one I ask from bank representatives they told me they have changed the format of bank statement. I submitted it to verification center but they are not accepting it I even submitted my internet bill still they are requesting new address verification I always receive my internet bill on my email. I am living in a rented house and I have bills but they are not on my name as I am in rented house What should I do in this case?
I am worried what will happen afetr 45 days if my client failed to get verified as I have open projects on which I am working
Thanks
Fahad
Hello Fahad,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have received the ticket/email sent to my Freelancer.com email address.
I will have a review of your current situation with your account limitation status and that of your employer as well.
This may require coordination with one of our specialized team in investigating this matter.
We will give feedback as soon as the appropriate department provides its recommendation for this concern within 48 hours.
Thanks Kristopher for taking attention to my matter
As I am worried I have other open ongoing projects working for other employers This issue has to be resolved soon as my hourly projects are on freelancer I have submitted my latest Bank statement too for address verification remaining I have verified my self on other methods
Thanks
Fahad
OMG!!!
These people are HORRID!
I set up an account tonight, and made the asinine mistake of linking it to my Facebook account. Then I read all these horrible reviews and went to disable my account.
Well.... NO CAN DO! I cannot do anything to reverse what I have done.
I have gone in to my settings in FB and disallowed the app yet mysteriously, they still post all my info. They have my location and phone number and there is no way "take it all back".
I feel VIOLATED.
I sent in a help ticket to close my account. Here is what they said:
"Accounts can only be closed on our end. Please tell us why you wish to cancel your account. What can we do to encourage you to stay? Since you are a free membership user, you can just leave your account closed until you want to come back."
UGH NO, just turn me loose already!
So, I entered one contest, (they still haven't taken down my membership, and the "winner" completely ripped off my design. The only way I can "fight it" is if I log back in again with my Facebook account. DISHONEST Freelancers with no ethics. And FREELANCER.COM could care less!
http://www.fotoshack.us/foto.php?id=91400Clipboard01.jpg
Hello Sheri,
Good day to you!
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have received the ticket/email sent to my email address and have properly responded to it already.
Your concern about possible "copyright infringement" violation of another contest designer has already been forwarded to a specialized team to be properly investigated.
Furthermore, I will send you a separate email regarding the other concern about your account details that were posted upon creating your Freelancer.com account through your Facebook account.
If you need further assistance or clarifications, please don't hesitate to contact me personally on the email address showing on your sender's list at anytime.
I still have NOT heard anything regarding this IP theft. It's been a while. This "ticket" has gone nowhere. Don't worry readers, I will keep you updated on what I hear from Freelancer, but as of now, they have done nothing to address the theft of my design.
Oh yeah and a side note: since I "joined" this scam site, I have been SPAMMED by hundreds of junk mail. I have had the email address for over 4 years with no spam. Coincidence? I doubt it.
Hello Sheri,
Good day to you!
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I sincerely apologize for the long delay it took in addressing your concern.
I have gone over the the ticket we have forwarded to the concerned team and it shows that they have already responded to your concern. The winning contest designer responsible for the "copyright infringement" of your own design has now been blacklisted from joining any contest posted on our site.
I will send you a follow up ticket regarding this matter. Please await my response.
sheri what happened to your account? I wanted to create one myself but when I saw these horrible reviews, I'm not sure
Negative Balance Error !
Hello,
Yesterday i was surprised when i logged in ! i have 260 AUD , and 0 USD
so it was changed to 260 AUD and -56$
i clicked on transactions:
17 Oct 2013 09:29 Reversal of [Done milestone payment from NotGoingHome for project Graphic Design (Partial payment for project) (USD) from 08/25/2013 at 21:11 EDT] (USD) USD -56.00
NotGoingHome awarded us a project, and created a 56$ milestone we finished the work but they disappeared, they didn't release the payment!
So i don't know why i was charged for something i didn't receive ! they created it why they charged me ?
There is always an error in the system !
Hello Fouad,
Good day to you!
This is Kristopher for Freelancer.com. I understand that your account incurred a negative balance of $56.00 USD when a payment made by your employer "NotGoingHome" had been reversed.
I found your existing support ticket and saw that you were informed by our Support Team to contact your employer to settle the issue regarding the payment. Please expect a follow up email from on the said ticket with my email address, [email protected].
I will make sure to personally monitor this situation together with you by sending a follow up email to your employer as well. We will also notify the other concerned team handling your employer's account after it had encountered issues from within.
If you need further assistance or clarifications, please don't hesitate to contact us again through this site or your Support Ticket as well.
Thank you Krostopher, but its not my problem to deduct the amount from my balance !
yea! why would you take money from his account?
I HATE freelancer.com. TOTAL SCAM
If I ever heard about freelancer.com before I finished the job, I would have never used it. I got one project from there and I completed my job very well. And my employer was so happy with the job and kindly left a review, paid before I even asked. And guess what I get, NOTHING.
Freelancer.com took my money and won't give it back to me. They asked me verify my information for security reason. And I DID everything they asked to get my money. And then, of course they keep giving me some BS about security. And now they told me my employer needs to do same thing.
Seriously? Their questions were already rude enough. Treating me like I did something wrong. And then my employer too? I told them, My employer has paid the payment and he thinks it's all done. It's been over 2 weeks since job has been done and I can't contact him. EVER SINCE, I said I can't contact him, ALL THEY SAY IS ' WELL, UNTIL YOU CONTACT HIM TO DO VERIFICATION, WE CAN'T RELEASE THE MONEY.' That is the only thing I get everytime.
Don't ever use this website. Total scam and fraud. Basically all you do is, you will get a project, work hard and give all the money to them. That's how their system works.
P.S, Don't even think about posting BS on this 'Abe'. Stop stocking people here.
Hi Fraudwatcher,
I am Kristopher from Freelancer.com. Thanks for alerting us regarding the bad service you have received from customer support, along with additional concerns about your hard earned funds.
We would like to hear your feedback about your experience so that we can work on it to improve our service to our valued customers like you. Feel free to send me an email to [email protected] with your username so that I can personally investigate why you are having difficulty getting your earned funds.
I look forward to receiving your response soon.
Hi Kristopher. Why have I been harassed by Freelancer.com? Why have you been insulting and blackmailing me? Why have you spilled my private data?
I am sick and tired of the abuse from Freelancer.com - I have been an active member since 2005 and every since the company was bought and changed from GetAFreelancer.com it's been a total vacuum for my earned profits. They've constantly kept increasing fees, taken money out of my account for a paid membership that I did NOT agree to use under the guise of trying to tell me I was under a "Trial Membership" and after it expired they had authorization to take money from my account to pay for the
"Paid Membership".
In order to bid on projects you must have matching skills selected in your profile. i.e. if someone posts a project to build an eCommerce site, you must have "ecommerce" selected as one of your skills. Well I've had 20 skills selected for the last 6 years. When I log in I and attempt to bid on a project I get a nice little notification that I must update my "SKILLS" in order to bid.
After going to update my skills, I notice that a majority of my skills are unchecked / no longer selected. At the top of the page it says that I can have up to 20 skills selected and I have the ability to change my skills 5 times.
So I added ONE skill which was ecommerce. The page magically refreshes after I click save and suddenly I have NO selected skills and only eCommerce as my only skill. At the top of the page, I now have "0" times left to update my skills or change then and NOW I am offered the option to PAY MONEY to update or add to my skills.
TOTAL B.S. - I HATE THIS COMPANY - I have never been so irritated with any online service provider as I have been with this company. They're stealing from people on a daily basis and rigging their system to extract as much money as possible from every single user they've got.
I hope someone forms a class action lawsuit to investigate and tear down their internally rigged scam scheme. I've read countess articles, blog posts and unhappy comments about exactly the same thing I've been through and much worse.
They're scoundrels no doubt.
Hello Another UnHappy FREElancer,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. I can see you have experienced some issues around our membership fees and in changing/adding skills to your Freelancer.com profile.
I want to make sure any issues experienced are resolved. Send me an email with your username to [email protected] so that I can rectify your concerns with the paid membership fees charged to you & assist in adding skills to your profile.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Hello Another UnHappy FREElancer,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. I can see you have experienced some issues around our membership fees and in changing/adding skills to your Freelancer.com profile.
I want to make sure any issues experienced are resolved. Send me an email with your username to [email protected] so that I can rectify your concerns with the paid membership fees charged to you & assist in adding skills to your profile.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Hi Kristopher Y. I am Chaim Kovalsky, author of Get a Hindu blog. Please tell me why have you at Freelancer.com been spilling my private data? Why have you been threatening me? Why have you been trying to illegally threaten me into silence? Hope to hear from you too.
Hi Chaim,
It seems they ignored you. If you could, contact a lawyer.
Freelancer dot com is a joke.
Hi Lay .Yes, they have been doing it for many months. No wonder why - see my article: "Insults, Injuries, Statements". The intensity of their abuse is simply unexplainable.
Yeah, I am afraid I will have no other choice but to make it official. The biggest flaw of it is I will have to find legal assistance in Australia.
Sorry, it was LAI I meant. I need some sleep, I am afraid.
You're welcome Chaim.
I was one of their victims. Unfortunately this service (reviewopedia.com) doesn't support direct link to a specific review (though I've contacted them to suggest that feature one or two months ago). But my review is under the nick "Greensea", on Jan 10, 2013, -- I was talking about vWorker merging process to Freelancer(dot)com, and about vWorker's former CEO Ian Ippolito. The review seems to stand at page #3 counting down from the biggest page number -- at this time it is #3 (the total is 5 pages, so counting down as 5 -> 4 -> 3).
Wish you the best.
Hello Lai,
This is Kristopher from Freelancer.com. We have come accross your post with the username "Greensea" and it shows that one of my colleagues (Ethan Flynn) have sent a response to your concern about your migrated vWorker account.
We were waiting for a response from you so that we can assist with your concern. We have assisted a lot of vWorker migrated users who requested to locate their account and merged it to their existing Freelancer.com accounts as well and it was done successfully.
We also want the same for you. Feel free to send me a direct to [email protected] along with the usernames or email addresses you have registered with both vWorker and Freelancer.com accounts so that we may locate it and possible recommend for merging as well.
I look forward to your response soon.
No thanks I waited enough.
I believe I was talking to Chaim.
Kristopher: Your customer support had been blackmailing me (ticket EWQ-697-92677). You have told me that either I remove my articles about you or you will inform my local authorities about purported offense of mine. Is this legitimate?
No thanks.
I believe I was talking to Chaim.
Kristopher: Why had Freelancer.com been disseminating my private data from user database?
Worst Site Freelancer.com, where we complain they send their support Team,which you all know ,copy paste tricks:) omg. They show others that they are trying to help....But they don't.
So Freeelancer.com change your policies ,and thefts .Otherwise you will be in hell for sure.Sick freelancer.com. ugh i feel like vomitting when i see thier page.
MoneyWorshippers.
Hello Freelancer.com is Scam,
This is Kristopher for Freelancer.com. We appreciate your recent comment/feedback that we have come across this site. We know that there is a reason why you have made a feedback like this and we like to understand what had triggered this particular situation.
At this point I want to hear your thoughts and comments about your personal experience with our customer support group. We always strive to bring into existence a confirming customer experience.
Send me an email to [email protected] and we'll have the details be reviewed so that we can improve more on our service towards valued customers like you. We also like to know if there is any specific incident that you can give as an example when you send me an email.
I look forward to your response soon.
OP: Next time it should be:
P.S, Don't even think about posting BS on this 'Abe' AND your friends. Stop stocking people here.
Something Else to Consider
Hi,
This is Abe from Freelancer.com. I understand that you are worried about getting malware from the site.
To set your expectations, the site itself is safe; however, we would highly recommend that you contact Support in case you find any user content that you think may contain malware so they can look into it.
Thanks,
Abe
Hi Abe. What about privacy policy. Why don't you inform the users you do whatever you fancy with their private data (including govt. ID scans etc.). Why don't you inform you export user data abroad and users have no control what happens with those?
Account Verification ?! After 1.5 year and around ~140 completed projects ?
Hello,
I've started working over Freelancer 1.5 years ago.
I have great employers and had a great opinion about Freelancer.com, but after today... I've changed my opinion about them.
Today I've requested withdraw, so I can receive money next week. After receiving confirmation email that I've requested withdrawal, additional email came to verify my account.
I have around ~140 completed projects, with average score 5.0 and currently locked 400$ on my balance and ~1500$ in milestones.
I have few really serious projects ongoing, and that money in milestones is just a half of money that I should receive.
My current balance: http://prntscr.com/1dsbx6
Upcoming milestones: http://prntscr.com/1dsc22
Reputation: http://prntscr.com/1dsc4k
I've also sent my personal ID, the picture where I'm holding confirmation number and one letter that I've received on my post address from Payoneer. (they asked for 2 scanned bills/letters received on address, but I just don't have it...). Then I should wait 2-3 business days, and as weekend is coming, I can assume that I will get reply in 5 days, and I don't know what to do.
After getting into this, I've searched and saw that a lot of people couldn't resolve their issues and I will now notify all my employers about issues that I have. Probably they will dispute milestones on PayPal and get their money back, but what can I do ?
Support is often not helpful at all, sometime I think that they start to argue with me, as they don't understand simple questions.
In the last few months, a lot of new employers/freelancers are just agents, scammers and cheaters.
Update:
They did answered to me, I'm on step 3 of verification. But, they just don't understand that I don't receive often letters over post office from my bank. And also I don't receive letters for utility bills, as I'm not the owner of the house where I live (owner is my father).
They don't accept Payoneer letter that I've received on SAME address, with my Payoneer credit card - that is linked with my Freelancer account.
They should really change method of verification.
I've explained them in details, but they don't answer nor accept it.
Hi Mario,
This is Abe from Freelancer.com. I understand that you are experiencing difficulties with verifying your account due to the number of available utility bills you can use for verification.
I found your existing support ticket that has been escalated to the proper department already. I will personally ask the department that is handling your case for a follow-up.
Kindly wait for their response.
Regards,
Abe
Hello Abe,
Thank you very much. I was really honest when I wrote everything, I still think that Freelancer is great, but that you should ask new Freelancers and Employers to do verification process.
Yesterday I was really disturbed when I realized that my account got suspended, without any previous notification.
I hope that we will resolve all issues today, on the mutual satisfaction.
Thank you,
Mario
Hello,
Few minutes ago I've got Verified:
http://prntscr.com/1dx9tp
Thank you Abe and I'm looking forward to have good cooperation like we had before.
You should also think about enabling verification for new members, and in that way you will not have a lot of fake projects and people who will scam each others.
Thank you again once more,
Mario
Hi Abe. When will you tell me why Freelancer.com feels free to compromise user privacy by publishing their private data and exporting those to third countries without full disclosure? What about infringed copyright? Why have I been slandered by you after launching articles criticizing you at Get a Hindu blog?
Abe: Why has Freelancer.com compromised my privacy by revealing my personal data?
Hi Mario,
The proper department just informed me that they have finished reviewing your account and you should now have full access to it again.
Please let me know if you require any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Abe
What about my question, Abe? Why had Freelancer.com been spilling my private data on purpose?
same thing happen to me 2 days ago.They put limited access on my account I have one month saving in that more than 990$.I provide them all possible documents they are asking me to provide driving license.What a BS and i clearly sent them twice that i don't have driving license because i never need that and they are also asking me to ask you employer to reply us i leave more than 30 messages for employer but they are not responding to me and i told to freelancer that they are answering....how i can force some one for verification its duty of freelancer to verify them before they post.They give me job i done that now you freelancer put me and my whole family in trouble but they are saying that your account got permanently blocked if you didnot ask your employer to reply.....What the bull crap is this..
Hi Mushtaq,
Can you provide me with your username or any tickets that you have raised with our Support Team so we can review your case? Just send the details to [email protected] and indicate that the message is for Abe.
I'll wait for your email.
Kind regards,
Abe
In case you had your sight impaired, Abe (asked this question before). Why does Freelancer.com personnel spill user data (including name and surname)?
Pardon: it was LAI I meant
Freelancer is a complete scam!
This started 3 weeks ago when a programmer couldn't do the job and gave me the money back - Freelancer.com just took the advantage and kept holding my money!
Tried to talk with Chat, Phone and Email support but all they said: "Can't help you". That's where I had no chance and I had to turn to PayPal for a dispute.
1 hour later, they set my account to -$210 just because I claimed that I want my money back and even when the programmer paid me back, they set my account to $0 so I won't have a choice to take the money back.
I'm willing to go anywhere needed and invest as much money as needed to make this issue completed and stop that online scam.
Hi Ross,
This is Abe from Freelancer.com. I understand that you had issues with retrieving your deposit which ended with a chargeback claim. Can you forward the details of your issue along with your username to [email protected]? Just make sure to address it to Abe so Support can forward your case directly to me for review.
I will wait for your email.
Regards,
Abe
Hi Abe. When will you tell me why Freelancer.com spilled private data from its database? Why have you been threatening me and fellow people into silence?
Be careful with freelancer.com
Hi Pascal,
This is Abe from Freelancer.com. Can you please forward the details of what happened with your funds along with your username to [email protected]? Please indicate that the email is for Abe so I can personally look into what happened.
I will wait for your email.
Thanks,
Abe
Commission Problem
Hello !
I am a scriptlance user, but since freelancer took over scriptlance, i switched !
I was awarded a 660$ project then the client stopped replying and he doesn't want to pay nor continue.
I was already charged 66$, i contacted the support system they said they can't issue any refund.
Why should i pay the commission if i was scammed ?!
Regards !!
Hi Fouad,
This is Abe from Freelancer.com. I understand that your employer stopped responding to you and the project has yet to be completed. Kindly forward the details of the project along with your username to [email protected] and indicate that the email is for Abe so I can personally look into this.
I will wait for your email.
Thanks,
Abe
Hi Fouad,
This is just a confirmation that we have received your ticket and responded to it already.
Let me know if you require any further assistance.
Kind regards,
Abe
what happened? fuad? did they help you? did you get your money back?
Hi M.S.
My name is Savannah from Freelancer.com.
I just read your post and I want to review what happened. If you can send me an email at [email protected] with your username and ticket IDs, then that will be great. I want to personally look into this matter at the soonest time possible.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.