oDesk oDesk is the Biggest Scam on the Internet -- Paypal Scam, Credit Card Scam, Phish Bank Account Scam Internet

I am a small internet company, and use oDesk for all my contracting needs, oDesk is not responsible for those charges the contractor has billed. However if you filed the dispute with them right as soon as the funds were withdrawn - they had pleanty of time to prevent the funds from being paid out to the contractor.

My contractors tell me they don't receive payment instantly they say they normally receive the funds on Wednsday's. Meaning oDesk has 4-5 days to figure something out.


There are security settings that you have set when creating the contract to hire the contractor.

1. Set limit of hours able to work a week
2. Max budget amount for set contract/project

It sounds like this contractor was not using the odesk time tracking application (time clock)
and manually added his time right at the last minute.

* Now I am sure 90% of odesk disputes are because of the contractor manually adding time to there time card, and yes as the employer it is not fair, and when you try disputing the manually added time you have to jump through many hoops before you even get to file the dispute.