🛡️ Safety Center
WorkHive is built so that honest employers and honest freelancers can trust each other from day one. Here's how the protection works — and the golden rules that keep you safe.
How WorkHive protects you
- ✓Funded milestones: money is held by WorkHive and released only when the employer approves the work — with a 7-day safety net after submission.
- ✓Report buttons on every job and freelancer profile — reports go straight to the WorkHive team.
- ✓A security watchdog that logs suspicious sign-in activity, rate-limits abuse, and flags attempts to move contact off-platform.
- ✓Funding caps per milestone and per day that keep worst-case fraud small.
- ✓Admin review of disputes: if a milestone is disputed, funds stay frozen until a human decides.
- ✓Suspended accounts are locked out instantly and their listings hidden.
Golden rules for freelancers
Never pay to apply or to get hired
No legitimate employer charges an application fee, a “training deposit”, an “equipment fee”, or asks you to buy anything up front. Anyone who does is a scammer — report the job immediately.
Check that the milestone is funded before you start
On WorkHive, employers fund a milestone before you work and the money is held by the platform. If someone asks you to start a big project on a promise — or to work the first weeks “on trial, paid later, outside the site” — decline.
Keep the conversation on WorkHive
Scammers try to move you to WhatsApp or Telegram fast, because there we can't see what happened or help you. Chat, interviews, and payments should stay on the platform — that's what payment protection covers.
Never share bank logins, card numbers, or ID photos in chat
An employer never needs your bank password, your card, or a photo of your ID. Payout details go in your own profile settings — never in a message to another user.
A cheque to “buy equipment” is a classic scam
They send a cheque, you buy “equipment” from “their supplier”, the cheque bounces, and your money is gone. Real employers don't do this.
Golden rules for employers
Fund milestones — don't pay in advance outside the site
A funded milestone only leaves your hands when you approve the submitted work. If a freelancer insists on being paid fully up front through Western Union or gift cards, walk away.
Look at reviews, the work diary, and the ✓ Verified badge
Reviews come only from completed hires and can't be bought. The verified badge means the WorkHive team checked the freelancer's identity. Use the interview questions and a video call to confirm skills before hiring.
Break big projects into small milestones
Fund the work in slices — a first small milestone is the cheapest way to test a new hire. It also keeps you inside the platform's funding limits, which exist to protect you too.
Watch for copy-paste applicants and rushed “hire me now” pressure
Urgency is a scam tool on both sides. A real freelancer answers specific questions about your job in their own words.
See something wrong? Report it.
Every job post and freelancer profile has a 🚩 Report link at the bottom. Reports go directly to the WorkHive team — we investigate every one, and reporting is anonymous to the person you report. If money is involved, open a dispute on the milestone as well so the funds stay frozen while we look into it.
New here? Read How WorkHive works first — knowing the normal flow is the best scam detector there is.