Tia Ling aka bcdjudo7 is a SCAM artist !
I was just scammed today by Tia Ling,
As of Friday, May 25, 2007 I had received a US money order to the amount of $ 175.00; such being half the amount $ 350.00 USD for a SEO job... This was agreed on and when I was finished that I would receive the other half... I was good with that !
The website was to be SEO ed and I quoted her on 7 Hours at $ 50.00 USD per hour to do her website
http://www.povauditions.com/. She agreed !
Even though I told here I would not start until I received payment she starting talking about other projects that she wanted me to do... So even before receiving her payment I began work on the SEO project...
When I had a close look at her html code I found that It was a complete mess and for me to do a professional SEO job I would need to redo her index page... Now I told here I would do this at no charge, because I had already quoted here $ 350.00 and I wanted to be fair... So since it was not costing her anything but some time just to look at the example index page that I had re done for her and spent 8 - 10 hours on... she sent me several fucking emails telling me she had changed her mind ! Ok... I understand now she does not want me to do work for her... Ok I can handle that !!!
She tells me in a email to take $ 50.00 USD from the US money order and to send back the rest...
Now she owes me at least 3 hours such being $ 150.00 USD for keyword research.
Now the 13 or 14 emails that I had sent to her was between 20 minutes to an hour each as to explain technical details on why I was doing what I was and she lead me on until Friday, May 25, 2007 and up to that point she was fine with my service or at least that is how she came across to me !
So I checked the mail box and found here AIR MAIL ed envelope with a US money order to the amount of $ 175.00 USD so I finally thought I would get paid... So I made my way over to Money Mart as to cash the money order. I explained that I had done some work for such and that I would like to cash it and I was told they could not cash it because they did not have a phone number to put into their system and I was told to get such information...
When I had explained to Money Mart that I had to return some of the funds sent to me by her, they told me that they were having problems with scams that went the very same way as what I was explaining... that this was a very likely scam...
Now I went home and started to look around her websites because I needed to get her contact info... such being a phone number and street address and I found everything pointed to a PO box... So I thought as to look at here 2257 records because by law she is to maintain such... and what I found was here 2257 records with a custodian or records pointing to a fucking PO box !!! ... This is illegal and someone need to take legal action !
So I continued further to find that even her DNS information did not even have a proper street address !
So requiring contact information as to cash her money order, I continue...
I find her domain name is through Godaddy.com . The whois information stated that this domain was prohibited from renewal !!! Then I looked down further to find out that the domain that she was trying get me to SEO would expire on: 2007-07-17 !!!
Now why hire a person to do SEO work if the website is prohibited from renewal and the expiry date is 2007-07-17 ?????
So now I have a very likely fraudulent money order in my position; so the only thing I can think of is to contact our local police and to lay a formal complaint and see if thy will take the fraudulent money order and do a criminal investigation. The issues of her 2257 record will be brought up !
I wrote VOID on the money order ! Just to make sure there was no further miss understandings !!!
The following domains are ran by the same people.
http://www.povauditions.com ( this was what I had to SEO )
http://welcum2dahood.com ( same site )
http://tialing.com ( Tia Ling's main website )
Tia Ling Myspace webpage: ( Her photograph and basic info. )
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ID=143 358458
CCbill, ISP and domain name register should be warned !
Since much of the pros in the industry networks here I am hoping someone will take up this good cause !
I did my best to warn the GFY members of this scam, please pass on the word !
Thanks for all of your time,
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