You can't say its fake but at the same time you can't just trust it fully.
My point here is: people do get things done for the price but when it comes to money/payment, you can not trust freelancer. Sometimes it gets reversed from your account and you won't even get a satisfactory reason for it.
I suffered a loss of 900 USD. All I get to hear that employer had some account issues and we can not disclose this any further.
If you looking to work as a freelancer, go odesk or upwork and any other site first and then freelancer.com.
Small incident: I worked for a client, designed the logo got the parent for it. Next day when looged in, my account showed negative balance ( payment reversed).
Support: employer have acc. Issues
Client: never came back or responded to any mails.
Result: I worked and still in debt.