Scams and Solicitors on PPH
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I've been on PPH for a few weeks now and have created some awesome proposals for a lot of projects. I've received a few legit replies, but many are from people who continually ask me to chat offsite about buying accounts from different websites.
It's getting out of hand. I take my time to produce good meaningful proposals only for it to be someone looking to do some fraud. I try to report them, but there seems to be a lot. Anyone else is experiencing this?
I'll admit, that most, if not all of these scenarios are from people opening new accounts. So the easy thing would be to avoid sending proposals to new accounts. However, as someone who hasn't completed a project yet, more tenured business owners/entrepreneurs may not be willing to give me a chance like someone who is new might be willing to do.
Anyone have any recommendations for this.
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Hello Robert,
I have now opened a ticket with our customer support team, thank you for informing us. At PeoplePerHour we take security, as well as quality, very seriously. We understand that for the past couple of months our clients, as well as freelancers, have been having trouble with some users and we have, and are, taking actions in order to fix and resolve this event that has now become a problem.
We urge you to always report those users Robert and our moderation team will be dealing with them.
Thank you in advance for keeping our platform safe.
Have a lovely day,
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Hi Robert,
The scams and fake jobs are serious problem on PPH, but in my experience I don't have any reason to avoid sending proposals to new accounts. Some of my better projects have come from new accounts. I usually avoid buyers who have posted a lot of projects because that suggests they have discovered PPH as a source of very cheap labour.
It is very difficult getting started on PPH. You have to keep submitting the high quality proposals and hope somebody bites and you get a ranking.
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