Why fraud comes from certain countries, aside from their economic condition.

mainceaft

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Hi all, on my Fiverr account, recently many contact from people pretended to hire me to do to them certain job,
I got many messages before from all around the world, most of the time either they change their mind before ordering, or found someone else they already contact to before,
Last couple weeks I got two messages from people from that [country], try their best to waste my time as much they could, the first guy tried to be like smart wanting me to finish his script (for free or $5 if he could), he tried to ask me question what's wrong with his script and why it's not working ( pretending to be legit buyer ), and honest that script wanted me to finish were kind big and extendable, I tried my best to make it work (at least 70% working) when I showed to him that he start changing the subject and want me to convert it to be android app (which is totally different story) I told him I'm not gonna to do that and then told him to order the service from my previous time I work on his project, but he tried to play deft and ask same unrelated questions over and over again, at last I told to not message me again or report at him being fraud.
The other guy want me to do sort of automation of task he saw other guy doing ( thousands time per task ) I told him this will take from me bit of time since I didn't try that in such scale before, but I will send him prove that I can do it, after four days from hardworking trying to fix endless bugs on the project ( which i wrote from scratch ) , he started making excuses about my work, like it too slow, or not doing this and that, like other guy I told him, I did exactly what you told me, and you should order the service now but he didn't reply for two days, and when I told him this
Why Aren't you replied to me, Did you are just trolling with me all past days, wasting my time for nothing, or is that your nature scamming people on Fiverr, Specially you lied about your real country, haven't your parent tell you don't lie?
His reply were ( this the script isn't operating as necessary yet ) like I FK talking to Amazon CEO or Bill Gates, begging to 10 millions bill.
Now guys, If you tell me why are you working on the service before they make the order, I simply do that to avoid 1 start revenge review, they will do for silly reasons.
Even I got my lesson and not let anyone from that [country] come close to me, but they sometime change their country on profile setting, luckily I caught that guy from time Local time hint Fiverr provide on the top conversation box, he claims to be from center Europe country but his time zone were farther >east.
If anyone says the poverty is the reason for such behavior, I will reply my finance condition aren't better than him, but sometime becomes worst, two years ago I was living under my brother aid, after an economic disaster stroke my country, and crashed the entire economy, many people were suffering even to effort food including me, but I never thought in entire my life to take advantage of anyone, doing fraud hack steal people money/identity etc. Even I was technically able to do that with much less effort
 
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man we need money . dont u need cash also . so do the job and get paid . thats how world moves man
 
Well it sounds to me like he was as confused and frustrated dealing with you as you were with him, there’s no need to make this a racial or political thing.
 
Well it sounds to me like he was as confused and frustrated dealing with you as you were with him, there’s no need to make this a racial or political thing.
If you are interesting about the full conversation, I'm glad to provide it to you, I know stereotyping is not right, but I was telling my own experience on specified job/task I do for living,
And do you like to have someone, waste your time/effort/energy, for four days and more, trying outsmarting you lowering your moral, mock you at the end of the day, and kept silent about it.
 
Does it matter WHY. Are you going to fix the problem once you know why?

Just ignore people from that country and keep it moving bro, sorry your time and money was wasted.

Perhaps its the environment / culture around them. If everyone in your city are in the mafia and are gangsters, just avoid people from that city, who knows why they are in the mafia or whatever their sad situation is... just avoid them and keep it moving.
 
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I think that's because of those governments corrupted policies.
 
To survive and make good money in Fiverr nowadays, one needs to be a badass marketeer (I am NOT saying badass seller). Same goes with affiliate marketing (nowadays) if one is using Google Ads. It is a jungle where lions only dominate. (NOTE : Others can also sometimes survive for a while in the jungle, but lions dominate in the jungle). Sometimes cubs grow up to become lions.
 
There are several communities that teach people how to scam others. If you dig deep enough, you'll find books, courses, and case studies of scammers. You can find scammers from any country which has internet connection.
 
if one is using Google Ads. It is a jungle where lions only dominate.
I had very, very bad experience with Google Ads campaign ~5 years ago, G sent me traffic from in-apps ads (games) , while I was specially targeting Google search page ( KW targeting ), I submit support ticket and G support tell me you can't prevent traffic (clicks ) from mobile phone, the only option is reducing mobile traffic bid cost lower than main campaign budget, but that didn't help at all, like my campaign were spent by bots or something, people were loading the landing page and get out without single contact or even visiting the second page, I think I could refer this like giant companies scam method.
 
@mainceaft - it is because they can and they think to themselves that what they are doing is not illegal, just immoral.

They have the option of rubbing someone and get thrown in jail, but instead they want to rob from you through digital medium and not worry about getting thrown in jail. To them it is a hustling game and they get a kick out of it when they are successful and meet their objective.
 
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