Freelance scam is a little different from how you many normally associate scam, but you will see it is similar in some ways. I bring you this article, because I want you to e financially safe.

What the article looks at, is a scam from the fact that the freelancer is asked to create work, but the “client” never intends to pay. Of course they can “hire you” and fail to turn over payment, but there are other more subtle ways as well. These could include contests, test or sample work, spec work, and the ever popular “percentage of profit”/”equity”.

While sometimes there are “test” that are legitimate, as a freelancer you have to protect yourself. So look to these 9 warning signs of a scam, when someone approaches you.

Link to Article – via Freelance Folder

Detecting Freelance Scams was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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