Katarzyna Slowikova wrote:
Thomas T. Frost wrote:
It's not exactly difficult for a scammer to create a Proz profile, so how would it help to hide your profile from non-users?
The point isn't to make it impossible for a scammer to contact you but to make it a bit more difficult.
If you delete your profile, it would be even more difficult for scammers to contact you.
Of course, it would also be more difficult for certain clients to contact you, which is the whole purpose of having a profile in the first place. So you have to weigh up if it's more important to get slightly fewer scam emails (it may take a few seconds to delete them) or to ensure you don't risk blocking any clients.
Katarzyna Slowikova wrote:
If there's enough Proz users who allow non-logged in visitors to contact them, the scammers will of course contact those people. A while ago, it was the same with the ID-theft scam - the scammers would go for editable CVs (of which there probably still are plenty), so having your CV in pdf (or even better as a scan - if you insist on making them available online) would make you much safer.
This is a general rule - make it more difficult for scammers and they'll largely leave you alone. They will always have enough easy victims to scam.
I rarely get any scam e-mails and I don't block contacts. But my CV is not public, as it would be too easy to abuse it.