Phishing can happen anywhere. Anyone that sends you a link to a website that looks similar to Freelancer-Projects.com and asks you to your Freelancer-Projects account again on Freelancer-Projects is attempting to phish your account. Once you are logged into Freelancer-Projects you should not get messages asking you to log in. If you spot any user attempting to redirect you off of Freelancer-Projects to these phony links. Report it immediately to Customer Support.
In other cases, people on Freelancer-Projects may contact you with an attachment or message to contact them off of Freelancer-Projects to arrange purchasing services directly or they may contact you on Social media channels to propose the same offer.
- You may not pay other users directly using any method other than ordering through the Freelancer-Projects order page. In case you have been asked to use an alternative payment method, please report it immediately here.
- Requesting or providing Email addresses, Skype/IM usernames, telephone numbers or any other personal contact details (other than your name) to communicate outside of the Freelancer-Projects network is not permitted.
If you are contacted by a user and you do not report the message or user, and forgo adhering to our Terms of Service by contacting the user off of Freelancer-Projects, Freelancer-Projects is not held responsible for any actions that may occur outside of Freelancer-Projects.com.
Please see our Terms of Service sections "Limitation on Liability" for more details.