What to do with freelance scammers?

Question

Freelance

Hello!
It's debatable, but important to me personally.
How to solve the issue with scammers on the freelance exchange?
Controversial because:
on the one hand, it is worth sharing information that such a customer is inadequate or the contractor can run away with an advance payment.
on the other hand, why sweep the rubbish out of the hut. You can take it easier, lose a certain amount and move on.
What is the right thing to do in such situations?

Answer 1

Over the years of freelancing, they have never thrown. I don't take a deposit.
Demo on my server. After receiving attendants, and only after that sending the source code and, if necessary, uploading it to the customer's server.
Even if I work through the stock exchange.
Large works are divided into stages.
I trust my customers, so they trust me.
The relationship between us is more important than the possibility of wasting time/money on my part.

Answer 2

This situation in the whole world is deplorable. A normal customer/executor can be identified by speech. They usually smile a little.

Answer 3

The first option is unrealistic, who will you tell about it?

Answer 4

1. SBR (deal without risk / service of safe work / safe transaction)
2. Work contract
3. Splitting of all work into smaller stages and payment for the stage 50% (immediately) / 50% (upon delivery)

Answer 5

At one time, when all the hysteria with the Maidan and Crimea began, I was thrown by 3 Ukrainian freelancers for an advance payment. And with one of them I worked before successfully. There are sums of 3-5 thousand rubles, but it's a shame all the same.
Since then, I have introduced rules for myself:
1) I look at reviews and past work
2) I check information about a freelancer through his contacts (sometimes I find information that this person has already scammed someone)
3) I look at the candidate’s social network for adequacy
4) I look where a person previously worked
This does not remove the responsibility that a person can do something badly, or not cope with the work. But at least you won't be fooled.

Answer 6

Avoid scammers, it just comes right after the first cases, there is a contract, there is a sbr, there are other ways.

Answer 7

work through a safe transaction and that’s all, it’s better to give some percentage to the service (if required for the transaction) than to lose the entire amount)

Answer 8

Experience, with experience you will have the ability to distinguish throwing and the ability to take an order with which you can easily handle.

Answer 9

For a freelancer doing work related to writing javascript, it is best to demonstrate the work done directly in the customer's browser, while making sure that the finished script cannot be stolen - copied until the moment of payment under the contract. To do this, you will have to create some shell program that allows you to deliver your brand new ready-made script to the customer's browser in encrypted public / private key form, unpack and execute it directly in the customer's browser.
To get freelance work done by a freelancer, i.e. to decrypt the script, the customer will need no matter what level of cryptanalyst, and much more time than to create the desired script on his own, he definitely will not do this, which was required to solve the problem.
An example using a public key to transmit a working javascript nocors.000webhostapp.com/index.html unpacks and performs the required actions in the browser - it minifies the html and css, but it cannot be copied.