Ripoff Alert: Your Guide to Avoiding Scams That Target Freelance Writers

Ripoff Alert: Your Guide to Avoiding Scams That Target Freelance Writers

Quick summary:

1. Another common rubber-check scam that targets freelance writers involves sending you a fat, fake check for a lucrative-sounding upcoming writing assignment.

2. People who aren't freelance writers sign up on mass platforms such as Upwork, posing as writers.

3. Freelance writers with high visibility online also get impersonated this way, by people running the next scam in our list.

4. Freelance Writers Den's Junk-Free Job Board, which is a hand-curated collection of only the best-paying opportunities online each week (along with exclusively listings we solicit from employers).

5. We've heard from freelance writers who have turned in packages of 20 articles or more on the basis of an advance check, only to discover the check has bounced

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