Spam posts & spamming proposals

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Muhammad Waseem

• May 27, 2023 15:11

PPH should work on spam job postings & all those freelancers who are sending spam proposals.

 

Look at the vague job post. 
I'm wondering about those freelancers who have applied to this. What they have written in their proposals?

Seems like they do the same even for the genuine job post. Spamming!

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  Rodrigo

  • May 27, 2023 20:42

  I am new to PPH and was about to ask the same thing. I have been receiving, on a daily basis, several proposals for typing/translating jobs from users that joined the plataform very recently (as in 2 hours ago), and wanted to confirm if they are the scam they seem to be.

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  Simon

  • May 28, 2023 06:03

  If you look at the that post in detail it shows that some people really have no idea how the platform works. That has been posted as a project, which means it should be a buyer looking for a freelancer to do some work for them. When you read the words it is a desperate freelancer, offering to do anything for $15. To make things worse, 5 people have submitted a proposal to try to get the project, even though it isn't a project.
  
  There is only one place on the platform to post a request for work like that, and that is as an offer. That would never pass the moderation. The scope of work in an offer has to be quite clearly defined. Unless it is posted as an offer, no potential buyer will see it. Getting round the moderation by posting it as a project or in the forum, is a complete waste of time.
  
  We are getting swamped by people who think they have found the key to unlimited wealth because they know how to use a computer keyboard or they know how to paste text into translation software.

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  Nancy

  • May 28, 2023 07:54

  It also begs the question - do PPH really moderate the projects posted?  How are these slipping through the net?  Don't they realise it pulls the whole site down, or do they just not care?

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  Simon

  • May 28, 2023 08:33

  I'm confused by the moderation process. There does seem to be a delay between projects being written and actually posted and they are often posted together in the early hours of the morning, UK time. This suggests they have to be approved before they are posted. Some, like this one, would never pass an approval. Are they approved? Is somebody paid to approve projects but they just tick a box without reading them?
  
  As for whether they care, I think we know the answer to that.

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  Nicola

  • May 28, 2023 08:56

  New to this platform. Annoyed by the incredible amount of spam and scammers. There is so much garbage around that it's hard to believe that one can find any real job in here.

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