Warning / Advice on Potentially Fake 'Outside IR35' Contracts

[ElDuderino]

I've been offered a role which I have been told all along was outside of IR35.

I'm just gonna do this post as a list of events / concerns which have occurred with this role, firstly as a warning to other contractors (as I think this is a pretty dodgy situation), but also to get your views...

[likewise]

Hello all,

I started a contract last week (monday) on the basis that it was a certain rate per hour with Lorien, they confirmed it in an email with me, they then sent me the contract 5 days after starting (so last friday), and on the contract was a rate £2.51 per hour less than what...