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Your client is asking you to contact them via WhatsApp, Skype, email or other messaging tools.
Whatsapp, Skype and email are common offsiting tools used by scammers. If a client asks you for any of these or if they send you their contact details, report them immediately to us. Offsite communication is strictly prohibited in our site. For your safety, communicate only via freelancer.com messaging.
Your client is requiring you to pay them before you are awarded the project.
As a freelancer, you are not required to pay clients in order to be awarded projects. Penalties are warranted to clients who ask payment from bidders. Payment for projects, which should be in the form of Milestones, should only happen in in progress projects once the client is satisfied with your output.
Your client is asking you to transfer money outside Freelancer.com.
If the project that you are bidding or working on requires you to send money or even Bitcoins outside Freelancer.com, it is likely a money exchange project. Money exchange is in violation of our Terms and Conditions. Refrain from making purchases for clients as well if you are not awarded the project and no Milestone Payments have been set up for you yet.
In the case of in progress projects, with the agreement between you and your client and with Milestones created for you, you may pay for initial project expenses if they are necessary to comple