I honestly feel sick writing this.

I’m completely new to freelancing and Fiverr and was trying to get started making some money online as a student. I had no experience with crypto/payments/scams and ended up getting manipulated into making transactions through MoonPay and Skin.club.

In total I lost:

• 402.38 USD
• 402.38 USD
• 213.55 USD

Over one thousand dollars gone. Literally most/all of the money I had.

What’s making this worse is Fiverr support has been incredibly unhelpful. I contacted them confused and panicking because I genuinely did not understand what was happening, and instead of guiding me on what to do as a beginner, I got vague responses and then basically ghosted.

I know people are probably going to say “how did you fall for that,” but please understand I’m new to all of this and the scam looked legitimate at the time. I already blocked my card, contacted my bank, and started disputing the transactions, as well as contacting both websites but I’m terrified the money is permanently gone.

Has anyone here dealt with something similar involving MoonPay/skin.club/Fiverr scams? Is there ANY realistic chance of recovering the money through chargebacks or fraud disputes?

Please don’t flame me too hard. I already feel like an absolute idiot. I have no idea what to do or how to pay my rent and haven't told my parents yet.

Hey everyone, quick question about Postwork.

I just got an email saying “we’ve paused data collection across all categories… your active contract has been closed and no new sessions need to be submitted at this time… we’ll reach out as soon as we begin collecting data again.” Is this pause for all freelancers / all categories, or only for certain contracts? Has anyone here continued working and getting new sessions approved after receiving the same email? Also, are they still accepting new users for the AI data projects right now, or is onboarding for new freelancers paused too? and was this happened in 2025 if yes so how much days was the freelancer wait toill reopne and can we predict or get info when will reopne after how much days

Curious to know how you'd go about it.

I'm at my limit and want to free up some time. All of my busy busy clients rely on me a lot and while I earn a nice amount of money from them, I am happy to take the financial hit in favour of my mental health.

Just wondering how you'd go about cutting down the work and explaining to your clients why.

I see independent professionals—I denounce the term "freelancer"—make this grave mistake again and again. They believe they are "not good enough" to work with international clients.

If you ask, "Why do you think that?" they say, "I am an Indian," or, "I am a Pakistani," or "I am..." some other sub-continental flavor. I held this misconception for the longest time, too. I thought the international market would judge me for my skin color. But that's all it was—a misconception.

Over the past five years, I've ghostwritten for clients from the USA, Canada, UK, Romania, Japan, and all over. I've ghostwritten for CEOs, Startup Founders, Life Coaches, Small-Time Business Owners, Podcasters, Oncologists, a PhD Professor, Agency Owners, and Digital Nomads. Their only concern was the value I offered.

I truly believe we are in the Second Age of Exploration. The trade routes are open. No one cares about your skin or the way you speak; they only care about what you bring to the table. So I say pillage, plunder, and loot as you please. The world is your oyster.

I'm a freelance graphic designer, but I'm still really new to working for people professionally. I recently had a gig go really bad, as I had completed my end and got paid, only to have the client call me this morning demanding a refund because the files were not right. She literally had another graphic designer with her claiming I had no idea what I was doing and that I was nowhere close to what they needed. I gave them a full refund, but I feel like crap. I'm worried they'll review me poorly. I've been scammed, ghosted, and now this. I feel like I have one out of every 50 clients actually be good.

TLDR;

I work white label for this company with couple of other freelancers.

After getting ignored by this person for some time, I told his partner that I'd appreciate if the invoices are paid FROM NOVEMBER/DECEMBER LAST year, that are already sent 2 months ago, now he is ranting to me like I did something wrong?

He ended up making another milestone on upwork but I have one more project pending to pay, which we are closing soon, so I just want to hear what is your guys opinion on situations like this.

This is not first time he behaving like this, so I'm thinking I'm done with this company.

Just to be clear, i have no use of lying here to stroke my ego on reddit.

What would you do in this kind of situation?

PS.

His "partner" told me once that they both are partners in this company, but on a meeting alone the other guy told me that he is the boss (person who is ranting), and the other guy is just employee there. Strange, init?

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What is a reasonable deadline for contract signing once a client has said they want to move forward, specifically from the time the contract is sent?