Working safely

Most people here are honest. The few who are not use the same handful of tricks, and knowing them is usually enough.

The rule behind all the others

Gizycko never holds or moves money. Nobody here can take a payment back for you, so treat every agreement as if you were meeting in person: know who you are dealing with, write down what was agreed, and do not hand over money or finished work to somebody you have no way to reach.

If you are hiring

• Read the profile and the reviews, not only the price. The cheapest offer written in three lines is the one most likely to disappear.
• Ask for previous work you can check yourself - a live site, an app in a store, a document. Screenshots prove nothing.
• Pay in stages against work you have seen, rather than everything up front. Small first stage, then the rest.
• Get the important parts in writing in the conversation here: what is being delivered, by when, for how much, and who owns the result.
• Never send card details, banking passwords, or codes from your bank to anybody, whatever the reason given.

If you are taking work

• Be wary of anybody who wants to move off Gizycko immediately, before you have agreed anything. It usually means they do not want a record.
• Never pay to get a job: no fee, no deposit, no “training materials”, no equipment bought from a supplier they name. That is always a fraud.
• Take a deposit before you start, or work in stages. Unpaid “test” work that happens to be the actual job is a common way of getting something for nothing.
• Refuse overpayment schemes - a cheque or transfer for more than the price, with a request to refund the difference. The original payment will be reversed later.
• Do not send identity documents to a client. There is no legitimate reason for a client on a job board to hold your passport.

Signs worth stopping for

• Pressure to decide today, or to keep the deal secret.
• Payment offered in gift cards, cryptocurrency, or through somebody else’s account.
• A job description copied from another advert, or a profile whose photograph appears elsewhere under another name.
• A request to install software, or to run a file they send you.
• An address or company that cannot be found anywhere else.

Keep it on the site

Messages sent through Gizycko can be read by a moderator when something goes wrong. Messages on a chat app cannot. Agree the work here first; move elsewhere afterwards if it suits you both.

If something happens

Use the report button on the job, the profile or the message. A person reads every report. Tell us what was agreed and what went wrong, and keep the conversation rather than deleting it - it is the evidence.

If you have lost money, or been threatened, tell the police as well. Report it to us too, so the account cannot do it to somebody else. Write to us if you are not sure what to do.