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Upwork just stole $10k from me

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342 points dustedcodes | 1 comments | 25 Feb 23 10:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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moralestapia ◴[25 Feb 23 11:01 UTC] No.34935666[source]▶
>Provided the documents, went through the visual verification with a webcam, answered the questions, and solved the programming task live, ...

Excuse me, WTF? You have to code something in order to get verified? (!)

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miohtama ◴[25 Feb 23 12:12 UTC] No.34936071[source]▶
Fraud is likely a huge issue on Upwork

- Set up fake profile

- Set up a bot army to vote you up

- Take clients money, never deliver or deliver some random crap duct taped together with ChatGPT README

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1. joenot443 ◴[25 Feb 23 13:37 UTC] No.34936551[source]▶
There are blackhat hacking forums with a better reputation and fraud protection system than Upwork. If all it takes is a “bot army” to make a profile seem legit, they’ve created this problem for themselves.