Matthew B.

I created a seller account on Fiverr - from account creation to date, I've been unceasingly inundated with scam gig requests. I'm a data scientist, and offer freelance machine learning dev experience on the side. Literally every request except one that I've received - and I get them daily - has been some variation on the following theme: "I (buyer) and from (some foreign country) and want you (seller) to set up a fake account for me on (gigging platform) because (bogus reasons ranging from work visas to online censorship)."

There exists no means for sellers to report scam requests, and therefore I'm stuck dealing with these messages until the accounts behind them are banned. And in spite of what Fiverr claims, this DOES impact my response rating on-app (not all scams are caught), which currently sits at 60% despite my perfect non-scammer rapport.

See attached my entire message log. Literally every message excepting one is from a scammer. The one non-scam account that did message me was asking me to commit academic plagiarism; that's not much better:(

Fiverr is either in WAY over their head with this, or willfully negligent at maintaining a positive environment for their sellers. All it would take is one machine learning intern with a substandard message dataset to build a spam filter for these sorts of things - Fiverr, if you're reading this (and I suspect you aren't), I'll build it for you.