How do you distinguish a legitimate freelance writing job and a fake freelance job offer?

Breaking News: Industry experts at GigaOM predict that the paid content market will be a 36 billion dollar industry! Think about that…36 billion dollars – that’s a lot of money!

It also means you are going to find a lot more high paid freelance writing jobs being made available on the internet very soon. With the increase of freelance jobs on the internet you will automatically find an increase in the number of scams for freelance writing jobs.

There are generally two types of scams that freelance members get exposed to.

Scam 1: Is where the job is completely FAKE and all that the scam artist wants are a number of freelance artists replying to his post. The scam artist then uses your e-mail to contact you and con you into a number of different deals such as the infamous lottery scam or rebate processing from home.

Scam 2: Is where the job is genuine in the sense that the client posting that job really needs content for his website BUT he has no intention of paying for his content. So he either asks writers to respond by writing a free sample and when he collects the free sample, he never responds to them again. The other way is to select the writer and give him/her an assignment. Once the assignment is completed, the client does not pay his dues nor does he respond to the writer again.

The easiest way to distinguish between a legitimate freelance writing job and a fake freelance job is to go through the following checklist:

a. Does the prospective client/company have a legitimate website?b. Is the prospective client/company mailing from a free email address or the website domain

name?c. Is the prospective client/company willing to give you their phone number and e-mail address?d. Has the prospective client confirmed if he is willing/not willing to pay for the sample if it is

accepted?e. Is the client willing to pay a 50% upfront fee since he is coming on board for the first time?

If you are not convinced on any of these 5 questions, then it’s better to skip the assignment and the client as there is a huge probability of this client being FAKE!

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