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Be careful when you are working with Fiverr

by Tuhin
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Please be careful when you are working with Fiverr.com. There are many hackers over there. Recently I became a victim of them. That's why I want to share my experience so it doesn't happen to you.

Few weeks back I bought a little software about article marketing from Fiverr. It didn't work and I claimed my money back. The gig said that she was extremely sorry for the software and she would give me a very powerful tool later on. We exchanged our Skype ID.

Just two days back she contacted me in Skype and offered me the tool. She just asked me if I was interested to increase the number of my Facebook fan. And then she gave me a link to increase Fans upto 10K. She also showed me some Fan page with 40-50K fans using her method. She gave me a link, I just filled up that form with my Facebook, Yahoo and Gmail information and submitted. I DID THE BIGGEST MISTAKE HERE.

At night I was going to check my emails and I've found my Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook everything is blocked. I just fell from the sky and understood the mistake I have done.

The next day (yesterday) I checked my Internet banking and discovered that my PayPal account has been hacked as well and they took $1500 from my account. I immediately contacted my bank & Paypal and that money issue has been resolved.

It was a very big lesson for me. That's why I want to tell my fellow warriors to be very careful when you are working with Fiverr.


Tuhin
#careful #fiverr #working
  • Profile picture of the author Shane N
    Tuhin,

    First of all, I am very sorry to hear what happened to you. I hope you get it all sorted out with your banks, the police, etc.

    You have a great point about being careful and using due diligence, however, it's not necessarily "Fiverr" that's to blame here... But rather the scumbags that steal from people, whether it be on Fiverr, or on the street corner holding you up with a gun!

    I know you said "when working with Fiverr" which is the point that I think should be brought to the surface. When working with Fiverr and/or ANY website, service, freelancer, etc...

    I would advise anyone that gives their information to anyone on the internet to: Beware and make sure you know and trust who you are dealing with. Do your research and don't hand out your critical data unless you are 100% sure.

    Best,
    Shane
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    • Profile picture of the author FredJones
      So did you give your password too?

      Personally, I never never never ever dream of giving my password to anyone. If that means I cannot import my Yahoo list to my Facebook, so be it. But I shall for example never give my Facebook password to Yahoo and Yahoo password to Facebook and so on.

      You get the idea. Forget this "trust" factor. My personal and confidential information at one place is not going to leave me for another place. Period.
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      • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
        Originally Posted by FredJones View Post

        So did you give your password too?

        Personally, I never never never ever dream of giving my password to anyone. If that means I cannot import my Yahoo list to my Facebook, so be it. But I shall for example never give my Facebook password to Yahoo and Yahoo password to Facebook and so on.

        You get the idea. Forget this "trust" factor. My personal and confidential information at one place is not going to leave me for another place. Period.
        Yes, I did this mistake to give my password.

        But I would rather take this as a lesson of my life. Forget the "trust" factor about personal & confidential information.

        Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by Shane Natan View Post

      Tuhin,

      First of all, I am very sorry to hear what happened to you. I hope you get it all sorted out with your banks, the police, etc.

      You have a great point about being careful and using due diligence, however, it's not necessarily "Fiverr" that's to blame here... But rather the scumbags that steal from people, whether it be on Fiverr, or on the street corner holding you up with a gun!

      I know you said "when working with Fiverr" which is the point that I think should be brought to the surface. When working with Fiverr and/or ANY website, service, freelancer, etc...

      I would advise anyone that gives their information to anyone on the internet to: Beware and make sure you know and trust who you are dealing with. Do your research and don't hand out your critical data unless you are 100% sure.

      Best,
      Shane
      Hi Shane,
      Thanks, you are right. It's not about Fiverr only, it may happen anywhere. It was my mistake that I passed my personal info in a script.

      Yes, I sorted everything with Paypal & bank. I didn't go to police yet.

      Thanks
      Tuhin
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    • Profile picture of the author mytoy78
      Originally Posted by Shane Natan View Post

      Tuhin,

      First of all, I am very sorry to hear what happened to you. I hope you get it all sorted out with your banks, the police, etc.

      You have a great point about being careful and using due diligence, however, it's not necessarily "Fiverr" that's to blame here... But rather the scumbags that steal from people, whether it be on Fiverr, or on the street corner holding you up with a gun!

      I know you said "when working with Fiverr" which is the point that I think should be brought to the surface. When working with Fiverr and/or ANY website, service, freelancer, etc...

      I would advise anyone that gives their information to anyone on the internet to: Beware and make sure you know and trust who you are dealing with. Do your research and don't hand out your critical data unless you are 100% sure.

      Best,
      Shane
      I couldn't agree more with this comment...it's sad but a true fact that wherever there is an opportunity to exploit people for money or otherwise...there will always be people who shirk, societal ethics to do this.

      This has a sad knock on effect, in that because of these fraudsters, people are so guarded that they are often blind to genuine advice and help.

      We live in a society where the mistrust of others has become the norm and the majority of helpful people around are ignored.

      It's a sad state of affairs.

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      • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
        Originally Posted by mytoy78 View Post

        I couldn't agree more with this comment...it's sad but a true fact that wherever there is an opportunity to exploit people for money or otherwise...there will always be people who shirk, societal ethics to do this.

        This has a sad knock on effect, in that because of these fraudsters, people are so guarded that they are often blind to genuine advice and help.

        We live in a society where the mistrust of others has become the norm and the majority of helpful people around are ignored.

        It's a sad state of affairs.

        Colin Armour
        Colin, you are right. It was a big lesson for me.

        Tuhin
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  • Profile picture of the author warriorsam
    Wow.. thanks for the heads up

    you should display her fiverr account here as a warning to others
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by warriorsam View Post

      Wow.. thanks for the heads up

      you should display her fiverr account here as a warning to others
      I was looking for her account and found this

      "The gig you are looking for is no longer available"



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      • Profile picture of the author HomeBusinessMastery
        Tuhin,

        I got a sick feeling in my stomach when I read your story. I am sorry to hear it happened, and I hope you get everything resolved.

        This is going to sound silly, but I had never heard of Fiverr until today. I came across a few discussions regarding Fiverr, but I have yet to investigate myself. There isn't much that I would be willing to do for 5$, lol -- how do you use Fiverr? It seems as though a lot of internet marketers are using it in very creative ways.

        Any advice would be appreciated!
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        • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
          Originally Posted by HomeBusinessMastery View Post

          Tuhin,

          I got a sick feeling in my stomach when I read your story. I am sorry to hear it happened, and I hope you get everything resolved.

          This is going to sound silly, but I had never heard of Fiverr until today. I came across a few discussions regarding Fiverr, but I have yet to investigate myself. There isn't much that I would be willing to do for 5$, lol -- how do you use Fiverr? It seems as though a lot of internet marketers are using it in very creative ways.

          Any advice would be appreciated!
          Fiverr is a good place. But be careful when you are dealing with someone. Never give any personal details.

          Tuhin
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      • Profile picture of the author Heidi White
        Originally Posted by Tuhin View Post

        I was looking for her account and found this

        "The gig you are looking for is no longer available"



        Tuhin
        Well that's comforting! :rolleyes:
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        • Profile picture of the author Your Brand Ebooks
          Originally Posted by Tuhin


          Originally Posted by
          I was looking for her account and found this

          "The gig you are looking for is no longer available"

          Tuhin
          Originally Posted by MostlyHarmless View Post



          Well that's comforting!           :rolleyes:
          Not so comforting really. The hacker probably had several Fiverr accounts, and even though that one acct was indeed canceled, I guarantee you she's still at it, full steam.
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  • Profile picture of the author rlhurst
    Originally Posted by Tuhin View Post

    Please be careful when you are working with Fiverr.com. There are many hackers over there.
    Sorry you had to go through that. I'm curious about you saying there are "many" hackers over there. Have you had, or heard of a lot of problems with that?
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by rlhurst View Post

      Sorry you had to go through that. I'm curious about you saying there are "many" hackers over there. Have you had, or heard of a lot of problems with that?
      Thanks for raising this issue. Yes, I would say there are many hackers over there. (May be small level or big level). I am not 100% sure but it's my guess after the incident.

      You can find many gigs are offering to increase Facebook fans upto 500, 600 or 1000 within 2-4 days. There is one condition, you have to make him/her as an admin. I don't know any method how to increase 1000 fans in 4 days unless I have a big exposure. For sure they are using some blackhat technology and you never know what they are doing with your account as an admin.

      The gig who offered me the service was from USA. My Facebook account has been manipulated from India. (Facebook showed me the location of last login) It's very much possible that they have a big network.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by Fruzzlies View Post

      This is really terrible. I'm glad to hear you got the money issue with your bank and PayPal straightened out. Thanks for sharing your story to hopefully help others in the future.
      Yes, mate. That's why I shared it in Warriorforum. I know many Internet marketers (including me) purchase products/service from fiver. The same incident may happen to anyone else. And prevention is always better than cure.

      Cheers
      Tuhin
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Tan
    Sorry to hear what happened to you Tuhin. I hope you managed to
    get your money back. Thank you for sharing your personal experience
    with us which I'm sure would raise awareness and prevent others from
    becoming victims.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by coolkevin View Post

      Sorry to hear what happened to you Tuhin. I hope you managed to
      get your money back. Thank you for sharing your personal experience
      with us which I'm sure would raise awareness and prevent others from
      becoming victims.
      Thanks mate. I have got my money from PayPal. They were very helpful about this issue and quick.

      And I just shared my experience to raise awareness. It happened to me, it may happen to anyone. These hackers are very smart.

      And Prevention is better than cure, always.

      Cheers
      Tuhin
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  • Profile picture of the author harryhumph
    damn, that really sucks...............

    Well, I guess all of us live and learn, there is nothing you can do about it know, so just carry on with life
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  • Profile picture of the author sumting4u
    Thanks for the heads up. I will be a lot more cautious when going to any of these freelance sites. I don't normally divulge any information unless I have built a relationship with that person.
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  • Profile picture of the author xxdksxx
    Thanks for the heads up! Kinda crazy how hackers are getting into everything lately. Good luck getting it all sorted out.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by xxdksxx View Post

      Thanks for the heads up! Kinda crazy how hackers are getting into everything lately. Good luck getting it all sorted out.
      Mate, they are very smart. They know all the tricks of copywriting and marketing. That gig made me a good offer, the conversation was normal, she showed me proof, started a scarcity of time bound.. She did everything.

      I was just thinking that she might do very well in Internet marketing if she followed the white hat method.

      Cheers
      Tuhin
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      • Profile picture of the author xxdksxx
        Originally Posted by Tuhin View Post

        Mate, they are very smart. They know all the tricks of copywriting and marketing. That gig made me a good offer, the conversation was normal, she showed me proof, started a scarcity of time bound.. She did everything.

        I was just thinking that she might do very well in Internet marketing if she followed the white hat method.

        Cheers
        Tuhin
        Yeah most don't follow the "white hat method" because they find if better to steal from someone that has already put some work into it and they can make a quick buck and start over. But once they actually get tired of stealing and decide it's better they try it maybe then they will make it online the right way.
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      • Profile picture of the author Your Brand Ebooks
        Originally Posted by Tuhin View Post

        Mate, they are very smart. They know all the tricks of copywriting and marketing. That gig made me a good offer, the conversation was normal, she showed me proof, started a scarcity of time bound.. She did everything.

        I was just thinking that she might do very well in Internet marketing if she followed the white hat method.

        Cheers
        Tuhin
        Most likely it's not a female. Hackers often pose as female to build trust.
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  • Profile picture of the author sscot
    Tuhin, sorry about the bad bargain. Was it a video chatting on skype? PM me her fiverr name and skype name. I've a friend, he knows cruel drugs against these xxxxxxx hackers, who're willing to steal innocent people's money.
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      Originally Posted by sscot View Post

      Tuhin, sorry about the bad bargain. Was it a video chatting on skype? PM me her fiverr name and skype name. I've a friend, he knows cruel drugs against these xxxxxxx hackers, who're willing to steal innocent people's money.
      poetic description of violence = level 3 psychotic

      scary man, I wouldn't want to be your cat on one of your bad days
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      • Profile picture of the author corsleymaxwell
        That's really a big mistake. In this kind of marketing one should be careful who to trust. Anybody can betray you especially if it means getting more money. Thanks for the warning, I hope everyone will be aware of this scam. Did you take any actions against them?
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        • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
          Originally Posted by corsleymaxwell View Post

          That's really a big mistake. In this kind of marketing one should be careful who to trust. Anybody can betray you especially if it means getting more money. Thanks for the warning, I hope everyone will be aware of this scam. Did you take any actions against them?
          Yes mate, I learned a new lesson. But it was an extremely important lesson.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clayton Rice
    I'm glad everything worked out for you.

    Two rules to live by on the internet to keep yourself safe:

    1. Never give your login information to anyone. I don't care if they say it's necessary or their business is trusted. NEVER give them any kind of login information.

    2. Triple check the URL in your browser before entering any login information. If you know you are already logged into facebook and you come to a page asking you to login again, check the URL. Someone might be trying to phish your login info.

    But like I said, I'm glad you got the money back!
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by Clayton Rice View Post

      I'm glad everything worked out for you.

      Two rules to live by on the internet to keep yourself safe:

      1. Never give your login information to anyone. I don't care if they say it's necessary or their business is trusted. NEVER give them any kind of login information.

      2. Triple check the URL in your browser before entering any login information. If you know you are already logged into facebook and you come to a page asking you to login again, check the URL. Someone might be trying to phish your login info.

      But like I said, I'm glad you got the money back!
      Thanks Clayton,
      I'll follow your advice.

      Tuhin
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    • Profile picture of the author Amigo
      Originally Posted by Clayton Rice View Post

      I'm glad everything worked out for you.

      Two rules to live by on the internet to keep yourself safe:

      1. Never give your login information to anyone. I don't care if they say it's necessary or their business is trusted. NEVER give them any kind of login information.

      2. Triple check the URL in your browser before entering any login information. If you know you are already logged into facebook and you come to a page asking you to login again, check the URL. Someone might be trying to phish your login info.

      Thanks for the useful points.

      Tuhin sorry to hear that, but how did you get your money back, did you?
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    Sorry to hear that dude. Hey you could make a TV movie out of that! It just sounds so crazy!
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    Woah ! Scary like hell
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    Very good advice. Hope enough people see this post to realize that you should not trust people with logins and personal info.
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  • Profile picture of the author DanielleLynnCopy
    I avoid most software that requires me to share personal details... so far it's served me well.

    I'm sorry to hear about your other accounts, but I'm glad that you at least got your money back.
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  • Profile picture of the author leppozdrav
    Can you report this person on fiverr to authorities...so their account get's banned or something?
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  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    Thanks for the heads up, Tuhin...and, very sorry about what happened to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author TryBPO
    For anyone else reading, consider this a good reason to have a different password for your social accounts, your email, and any financial information. Include capital letters, numbers, and funky characters in your passwords as well. Sorry the OP had to go through that...what a pain.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by TryBPO View Post

      For anyone else reading, consider this a good reason to have a different password for your social accounts, your email, and any financial information. Include capital letters, numbers, and funky characters in your passwords as well. Sorry the OP had to go through that...what a pain.
      LOL This is really a pain to use so many passwords in all accounts. But if it's required, it needs to be done.
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      • Profile picture of the author aurathas
        Originally Posted by Tuhin View Post

        LOL This is really a pain to use so many passwords in all accounts. But if it's required, it needs to be done.
        It is a big pain, but hey if it prevents people from stealing or hijacking my stuff then it's worth it.
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      Originally Posted by TryBPO View Post

      For anyone else reading, consider this a good reason to have a different password for your social accounts, your email, and any financial information. Include capital letters, numbers, and funky characters in your passwords as well. Sorry the OP had to go through that...what a pain.

      Yes, yes. Excellent advice.
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      Originally Posted by TryBPO View Post

      For anyone else reading, consider this a good reason to have a different password for your social accounts, your email, and any financial information. Include capital letters, numbers, and funky characters in your passwords as well. Sorry the OP had to go through that...what a pain.
      > and funky characters

      like Raj and Rerun
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  • Profile picture of the author gamingmaster42
    This is why this is in Fiverr's terms:
    To protect our users' privacy, user identities should be kept anonymous. Requesting or providing Email addresses, Skype/IM usernames or any other personal contact details (Other than your name) is not permitted.
    Hopefully though you have learned your lesson.
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  • Profile picture of the author theinternetmarket
    This is horrible. I have had this happan to my gmail once.
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    • Profile picture of the author shmeeko69
      Well I've personally been with fiverr as a seller for nearly six months and I haven't encountered many problems, apart from buyers getting their accounts blocked and the occasional sarcastic comment. I think it's a good place to promote your services and also to find services that will help your own marketing campaign.

      Mark :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author King Louie
      If someone asks for my e-mail or Paypal password, I'll get the hell out of there quick.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fafa
      Thats ridiculous..I'm tired of these hackers, it happened to my yahoo and gmail before..Thank goodnees you have your accounts back on..I hope those crooks are punished
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      • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
        Originally Posted by Fafa View Post

        Thats ridiculous..I'm tired of these hackers, it happened to my yahoo and gmail before..Thank goodnees you have your accounts back on..I hope those crooks are punished
        Mate, you understood my pain. In fact I haven't got my Gmail account back.

        I also want to punish them. I went to Police. They said that they wouldn't do anything for $1500 only. I replied that I check my online banking and other staff almost regularly. But there are thousands of people, they just look at the monthly statement. They didn't bother. They just told me, if I want I would write an incident report
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Hopefully you'll get it all sorted out, but dude, not even my wife knows my passwords... that was a really bad mistake.

    Live and learn hey?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    I've so many spam mail requiring my information and I usually fill these form 1 + 1 = 2. xD

    Glad that you havve earn your money back.
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  • Profile picture of the author Claire Sharp
    This is really a bad experience of yours. When giving personal information online is a bad idea. You have to know your limitations in terms of giving information online.
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  • Profile picture of the author prostock81
    Very sorry to hear the trouble you had. I am active on fiverr as a seller. So I have not had any experience actually purchasing gigs. I am enjoying using fiverr to make a little extra money, not becoming a millionaire, but my daughters graduation party is coming up and I am happy to say I have made enough to help with the tent and food. The wife is happy
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    • Profile picture of the author Tuhin
      Originally Posted by prostock81 View Post

      Very sorry to hear the trouble you had. I am active on fiverr as a seller. So I have not had any experience actually purchasing gigs. I am enjoying using fiverr to make a little extra money, not becoming a millionaire, but my daughters graduation party is coming up and I am happy to say I have made enough to help with the tent and food. The wife is happy
      That's great. Actually it's my mistake that I gave my details to somebody else. at the same time it was a good lesson for me.

      Have a great graduation party
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  • Profile picture of the author rite
    sorry to hear about this. this is why the only person that has my passwords is me
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Daniels
    Ok never use the same password for all your accounts. Don't use your paypal email as your personal one, and don't give it out to anyone. Ever. Its good u learned that lesson at $1500 and not $15,000 (and dont get it back). If you where gulliable to do that, then that was a lesson u needed, u didnt exactly get "scammed" as much as you got taught.

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  • Profile picture of the author Debra Barrow
    Wow, I've had performance problems with Fiverr, but now this too. Thanks for giving us advance warning.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeye
    Always double check the website where it asks you to enter both username and password for whatever accounts, even just for email accounts. Don't enter anything unless you know the website well.
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  • Profile picture of the author JoeGo
    no matter what gig you are looking at on fiverr, make sure to click on the tab that says "rating". this will pull up the top rated sellers on fiverr. someone doesn't get these by accident, it's based on buyers' experience with the seller. they also have a "top-rated seller" badge that they get when they've collected enough thumbs up reviews from satisfied buyers. just a little tip...
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  • Profile picture of the author pyrosalad
    Scammers and thieves are everywhere on the internet, not exclusively on Fiverr. I don't think it's fair to say "be careful when working with Fiverr" rather than simply "be careful when working with anyone."
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  • Profile picture of the author annie800
    Tuhin, thank you very much for sharing your story with the Forum. Thanks to you I will be very wary about what information I will be giving out. Hopefully this will all be settled for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author maxaurelius
    NEVER give out your password. That's the number one rule on the internet. Your very lucky you didn't have your entire life crumble. This is a good reminder to everyone... If you need my password for anything, we will never do business.
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    Break the TOS = High Risk.
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  • Profile picture of the author mshajid
    Oh! sorry my dear friend, They have phished you through email why don't you have a email scanner or any Antivirus guard which scanning emails also.. be awareguys be anonymous
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    • Profile picture of the author TimPiazza
      The same caution can be said for "rent a coder" type sites like eLance. I had a developer outsource some of his work without my knowledge and he gave FTP credentials to a freelancer. Months later, the site was hacked using that FTP data.

      I burned up a day of my life unwinding the hack, smoothing things over with the client, and forensically unraveling the story through log files, while my hired developer denied any knowledge of how it could have happened.
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  • Profile picture of the author gothilda
    First of all thank you for sharing this warning!
    And i'm very sorry to hear that this happend to you!
    Me myself i am trying to make my life a bit easier with the hard earned money from my internet marketing! so it is horrible when this happens to you!!

    srry m8!
    hope your doing well again.

    greetings gothilda
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  • Profile picture of the author dsouravs
    This is not Fiverr to blame.
    It can happen with anything when you are online.
    People get emails like you have won 100 Billion dollars....send your address and all....
    This is a online stuff...
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  • Profile picture of the author CyborgX
    Thanks for the sharing so nice and so use full information
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  • Profile picture of the author jendg
    thanks for sharing this unfortunate event...yes, we should all be wary of dealing with our personal info...especially at this internet information age lots can be accessed quickly
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  • Profile picture of the author bassem
    MAN, NEVER NEVER share your presonal information online even in local software . how could you be so naif . there are thousands of legit gigs there , always pick the people with high positive rating and many orders in Queue. and don't trade with them outside fiverr becasue you will be out of protection
    glade that you've learned teh lesson
    cheers

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  • Profile picture of the author themubeen
    It's not about Fiverr, but it's about hackers and spammers.So keep away from Hackers and Spammers.
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  • Profile picture of the author evilsaigon
    Wondering did you reveal your password as well when you keyed in personal information, or she managed to hack all your accounts by just knowing your email address and usernames?

    Either way, you still managed to resolve your money issue and that is very lucky of you!
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