Working at home you seldom have possibility to confirm the relation with the customer in writing and frequently in general it is hard to identify the customer. Therefore you should secure at once yourselves and avoid a situation when work is already made and sent and the customer has disappeared together with the promised money.
And there can be a situation when to you will pay for remote work with stolen credit card or the accounting record in payment system. Especially it concerns payments through system PayPal, in case of swindle the money listed into your account from a stolen credit card come back to the proprietor and you, accordingly, remain with nothing. If you receive money on Western Union, E-Gold.com or payment checks they cannot be returned under any circumstances.
That to secure yourself try to receive about the customer maximum information and to check up, whether it is authentic. Take advantage of possibility to receive money through freelance sites it of course, not 100 % safety guarantee, but all the same can prevent similar problems.
You also can use special methods of payment like escrow accounts which are on freelance sites. In that case the customer even prior to the beginning of work places money for the special account and return money back without your participation he cannot. After the termination of work and granting of results money is translated to the customer into your account.
At desire it is possible to take advantage of specialized service Escrow.com which is expensive enough, or to choose among other sites which are rendering service for safe carrying out of transactions, such as weblancer.net, www.getafreelancer.com (a freelance site with free escrow service), or there are also many other web sites especially made for the freelancer’s help.
So try to be cautious then not to be engaged in the compelled charity.
Remote work gives set of possibilities for swindle and pure frauds. One of ways free of charge to take advantage of freelancing services is to declare competition.
For this purpose it is necessary to publish the project in section “Competitions” and to wait while there will be that variant which will approach you, besides, it is possible to ask to bring the author of work necessary editing. And here you get the ready project; expenses are zero, short of time and efforts spent for this procedure and tortures of conscience.
But do not forget that all skilled experts usually do not participate in similar competitions. Therefore your chance to receive really qualitative product is insignificant, most likely, on competition “will be caught” young and green freelancers who in the absence of a portfolio have no possibility to participate in serious projects.
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