How safe is it for yourself to work via the Internet with a foreign company?

Question

Freelance

There is a prospect of working for a supposedly foreign company as a web designer.
Little is known about the company, the website, a simple page in Linkedin, and a contact in the telegram, there are no reviews anywhere.
They say that you need to work with graphics, draw the design of online stores, banners.
How do they usually work with foreign companies via the Internet in such cases, so as not to be deceived?

Answer 1

Demand either an advance payment or payment upon completion of work, for example, every 2 weeks. If delays begin, then immediately stop working until the work performed is paid.
About the contract. When working with a foreign company, the contract will not protect you at all. Neither you nor the company will sue in another country if something happens. An agreement may be needed only for two things: to clearly identify all agreements (unexpectedly, right?)), especially regarding the payment part, and to you personally for the tax.

Answer 2

A normal company will want to conclude a contract with you, it is in its interests. If there are problems with this - an occasion to think.
You can also try to protect yourself at the start - ask for an advance payment, say, 20-30 percent of the salary per month, it will also be indicative

Answer 3

As an option, work with prepayment or bring them to some platform through which you can protect yourself (for example, Upwork). On the other hand, you also most likely work with Russian customers without any protection ...

Answer 4

I heard that it's better to organize everything with the rule "1/3" (thirds: in Russian) with the prescription of everything in the contract:
Received an advance payment of a third: made with the customer the technical task / requirements, Wishlist and approx. view / layout / prototype of the completed product / agreed on terms.
(He does not want to pay even at this stage, which means that the customer is not serious or not solvent - point him to this).
==> doing ==>
Before showing all the work: demand the second third (for the work done)
::if==> didn't like it? I want to radically redo everything (the biggest risk)? Wishlist has changed (I found it better after I had already ordered everything / dreamed something after the details were approved initially) ==> renegotiate the contract and do everything over again
::else ==> I like everything, we are clarifying the latest details, Wishlist (but not cardinal changes, but only cosmetic ones here), the schedule for completion / launch / last testing, we receive the last necessary details from the customer.
Doesn't want to? Goodbye!
But (note):: between the release of the beta version and until the latest version, we do not give the code to the customer, because there is an opportunity (for them) to throw a programmer after more than 50% of the work has been done and after that it is already easy to finish something, i.e. the risk of cheating is much greater and hiring a less qualified specialist, but with a lower salary, there is also a reason and motivation
:: Doesn't want to pay the second third before the release of the beta version? like "and you first show?"
explain that time has already been spent, resources that could have been spent on another project, plus the main architecture of the work has been done
==> doing ==>
:: before releasing the latest version, we require the last third
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The contract itself essentially means nothing, because . the employer can at any time say ==> "if you don't like something, go to court", knowing that it also takes time and money, etc. and the developer on a small project is harmful,
but when the question is posed in this way "in the morning - money, in the evening - chairs", the risks of the developer are significantly reduced.

Answer 5

How can they deceive you? Do you get paid after two years of graduation?