Shah J.

Dear readers and fellow freelancers

I was attracted by the freelancer.com reviews, most of which holding 5-star rating and nice narrations from other users (which are mostly manufactured by freelancer.com's paid review writers). At the beginning I found the site user friendly but with the course of time in the name of web development and facility enhancement for the users though the freelancer.com authority introduced some extraordinary ideas, within these they also set up the horrible plans of squeezing the users.

The site owners only give advantage to the clients and project advertisers and never help the contractors if their money is stolen by dint of malicious practices. I was robbed of my earned project fees even though I completed all necessary precautionary steps. So it seems to me there is some sort of connection between the ill motivated contractors and the freelancer.com authority.

Since it is a virtual world and a contractor has very limited ability of raising a complain to legal authority so the freelancer.com takes this advantage. Though it is their obligation to check and verify each and every contractors financial background but they don't do that as a mandatory practice. They allow everyone to launch a project in their site and those scrupulous clients get easy chance of cheating the hard earned contractors' money. Whenever my money is stolen by a client the freelancer.com support team only indicated the reason as the client used an unauthorized payment source so his/her money is returned back.

What a joke, who has to check whether a client's payment source is legal or illegal, do this falls on the responsibility of a contractor? But what happened to my sorrow in the last two years is whenever money that I received in my escrow fund and then it is again sucked out from my account and diverted to the client, the freelancer.com team just advised me to be more vigilant.

I am vigilant since the first incident of loosing money two years back occurred but I cannot control things which are under the only authority of freelancer.com team. The freelancer.com authority is straightaway linked to cyber crime, this authority must be brought under legal procedure otherwise many more innocent contractors will face financial demurrage. So it's time to raise voice against all illegal operations of freelancer.com and be alert about their dishonesty.