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Chocomastery (he/him)
Chocomastery (he/him)

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Upwork verification call. What questions to expect?

People are asking me all the time what to expect from the Trust & Safety team on a call. I've collected all possible questions. Most probably, your case is not unique and you will have the same. If you used a dead person to work on Upwork (real story) - questions may be different.

Documents and personal verification

  1. Switch on your camera
  2. Show your id
  3. Share your screen
  4. Tell your full name
  5. Why is your name different on Upwork page?
  6. Tell your date of birth

Authentication & Devices

  1. Show how do you log in
  2. Do you use email or social auth?
  3. What devices do you use to connect?
  4. Does someone else have access to your Upwork profile?
  5. What OS do you use?
  6. Why do you have so many devices?
  7. What are you doing on Upwork from so many devices?

Location

  1. What is your profile location?
  2. What is your real location?
  3. Here is a link. Open to show your IP
  4. Why is it not the same?
  5. Do you use vpn?
  6. Do you use anti-detect browsers?
  7. Why did you log in from ____ ?
  8. How is it possible that there were two logins from almost the same time but from different locations?

Who are you?

  1. What is your speciality?
  2. Do you work alone or with someone?
  3. Do you have an agency?
  4. Who are you in this agency?
  5. Do you have an education in this field?
  6. How did you decide to become _____?

Do you know...?

  1. Do you know ____ (your real team member) ?
  2. Do you know ______ (some banned person with the associated name who was banned for some reason before)?
  3. How many team members are in your agency?
  4. Why not all them are on Upwork?

Terms & Live Coding

  1. What is TERM? (terms from your speciality like what is UX, API, SDK)
  2. Show me the project X (from your contract)
  3. Make a prototype, write function, code live (this is a practical part, usually from your speciality
  4. So why did you write Developer/Designer/___Whoever if you can't do this?

Contracts& Clients

  1. What are the hours of your activity?
  2. So why do you log in at night?
  3. So how do you send proposals at night?
  4. So how do you track your time like 24 hours per day?
  5. How many contracts do you have on your profile?
  6. How many open contracts do you have on your profile?
  7. Tell me about each contract. What are they about?
  8. What are your clients names?
  9. What was the last billed time on _____ contract?
  10. What exactly do you do on this contract?
  11. Why do you do _____ if contract name is ______ ?
  12. Do you subcontract your contracts?

Upwork account

  1. When did you register?
  2. What is your education written on Upwork?
  3. What is your employment history?
  4. What is your last contract name?
  5. Tell me about your first contract on Upwork
  6. What is your hourly rate?

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