Safety rules on freelancing

Follow these rules and you will greatly reduce the risk of fraud.

1. Gather information about the customer before starting work. Look at his profile in the social network for the exchange of freelancing. Score e-mail client in the search engines and see where it exists (and there if at all). If the client has no real photos on his empty e-mail search results page in a social network there is no information or very little - it is better to refuse to work.

2. Carefully work with individuals. In such projects, the highest risks. Less risk when working with companies and agencies, provided - that these are normal companies and agencies, and not one-day firms (looking for information about a client on the Internet).

3. Always ask for an advance payment or security services work through transactions. If the client refuses to work through advance payment or guarantor - refuse to cooperate, or do not share the results of work until full payment.

4. Do not work for a% of the profits or sales. You are wasting your time on a project and need to get paid for it.

5. If an unknown company or individual offers to buy a course, training with subsequent employment - do not agree. Most of these schemes use cheaters to receive your money and disappear. Exception - the normal course of well-known companies or training centers.

6. Do not accumulate debt. If the project is large, chop it up into several parts with payment at the completion of each stage. So less risk that you will throw in the "final payment".

7. Transfer the source files only after full payment. Apply on the interim results watermarks. Make a site on the platform and carry it only after full payment.

8. If you have something embarrassing - to refuse to work. It is better to do nothing than to work for free.