{"id":315,"date":"2022-08-09T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2022-08-09T20:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T01:00:33","slug":"warning-upwork-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/09\/warning-upwork-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Upwork Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have done some work on Upwork for extra money, however, recently I have encountered scams on the jobs I have applied for. The first was a game testing job. Now, I cannot say for sure these are scams, but, there are some red flags that made me backout of each of these jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the game testing job. They began a chat with me and were requesting information about my phone. Then they started asking for screen shots of my phone. The first screen shot seemed harmless as I did not see any information on there that could be compromised. The next screenshot that they wanted did have some numbers and dates that I thought were too specific to give a screenshot to them. So, I said thanks but no thanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next one is even worse. Be very careful of this. This was a digital marketing opportunity. First they requested a resume. I do not have a current resume so I said I did not have one. They then asked me off-site to Skype for some chatting. (going off site is a red flag as they can talk to you on upwork safely). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went off-site and began a skype chat. This was supposed to lead to a 40 minute interview. There were some things said within the chat that did not seem like correct responses. I was getting a feeling that something was wrong. I went back to upwork to re-check the job post and found it had been removed, yet I still had a pending interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the skype chat, I asked about this and if I would still be paid through upwork. They said that I would be paid through upwork but the job had been removed because they got enough applicants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I then asked for the company website. They provided a website that had a bunch of links to amazon products. There was only 1 page, no real address (just a po box) and no phone number. The business name was listed on the bottom of the page as an LLC. I looked up the business in the state they said they were in and there was no business with this name listed. Then I questioned this on the skype chat. They did not answer the question. They responded with a copy of the job proposal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point I said cancel the interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beware of any job on Upwork. After this, I wanted to speak to someone at Upwork about this issue. I went to the app and attempted to contact them. All I could get was a chat robot that would give me pre-made answers. I could not get to talk to a real person. What this means is Scammers have the upper hand because there is no way to report them. There was one thing about marking a job listing as a problem but , as I stated, they had removed the job listing so this was not something I could do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beware on Upwork and be very careful of any information you give. Once they bring you off-site you are on your own and could easily be scammed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beware on Upwork and be very careful of any information you give. Once they bring you off-site you are on your own and could easily be scammed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[53,52,50,48,51,49],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-from-home","tag-digital-marketing-scam","tag-online-scams","tag-remote-work","tag-upwork","tag-upwork-scams","tag-work-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anixas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}