The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
 

The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency

Crazy story. But here's the part that shocked me the most:

How much of a fucking coward can you be? You got scammed, and you don't have the balls to blow the whistle on the scam to prevent others from becoming victims? That's just horrible.

The majority of the public hid in their homes for 2 years because they were scared of the
boogie man/virus.

Just let that sink in.

We live in the era of cowardice.

Congrats on that completely unrelated, dumbass, ignorant post. :thumbsup

It's totally related because it's the prevailing public attitude.

Face the facts that today when you say *boo* to most people you're going to get a freak
out. It's their feelings... It's their entitlement... It's their *tell me you love me or I'll cry*
mentalities.


So yea,
People that are willing to hide in their home for 2 years are not people that are going to show
any kind of backbone to rat out this scammer. The entire world has been engulfed in this
crap and it's not going to end anytime soon.

PS. I have no Intentions of trolling out with anyone about my comment. It's your right
to disagree or hate what I said.

Cowards are the ones that didn't lock down, to chicken to get a jab, too fucking stupid to stop an easily stopped virus, all while they screamed about "My privileges" and "My freedoms" flipping the finger at community and country. The most unpatriotic cunts on the face of the earth only worried about their fearful little selves, prolonging this virus for eternity.

Karma will come for those unpatriotic few, and covid will bring it.

While I agree 100% with this sentiment, I'd prefer it if this thread was not moved to the politics board.

And Gates now says the omicron virus is the vaccine for covid

Strange story, it is no clear what was agenda of the founder.

So people felt it was a scam that the guy acted like his company was bigger than it was? Maybe I don't know what it is like to be an employee, but why should they care so long as their paychecks clear and the company gives value for funds received? Like it's kinda weird, but also kinda jerky that people who worked there took the money up until it was time to provide value to the company they worked for.

I don't know. I'm up early for me, so maybe I'm misreading.

Nobody got paid. They were hired on-comission for projects that never closed.

What he did was a lot worse than exaggerate the size of his company LOL
He used fake social media profiles, fake photos, fake references, etc.

Gonna watch the TV show later. It will also be on iPlayer.co.uk if you have a UK VPN

Massive grift. One of the workers should dedicate a site to Sayid or whoever.

Okay, so what's his GFY username?

Why not make a legit business with all the effort? So many simpler ways to be a grub.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Quite an elaborate scheme the guy came up with. Something must be wrong mentally.

Ah, I only read the part you posted. If the commission offers were not legit, that is different.

Nothing was legit.

Well, wow, having read the whole article that is bizarre af. I personally don't care if someone uses an inauthentic name, so long as they are consistent and keep their word and provide value/payment as agreed.

Still sort of weird to me that these folks purportedly pitched thousands of potential clients and were supposedly days from signing clients. Like it's scummy that their portfolio was stolen/fake, but how did they have zero funds coming in? How did so many employees get tricked but not a single client?

How long did this charade go on?

I don't understand any of it either. The story is the sales people were working to bring in clients (for free), and they hired designers to do the jobs.

It's made to sound like he didn't sign any deals because then he'd have to pay them, but it's a commission, so... why not?

Meanwhile, someone was "leading the company's expansion into Dubai"... Expansion of what? What was she doing? What were the designers doing?

It seems to be someone cosplaying as an international hotshot, barely even news, and yet it's a TL;DR and a TV documentary. I can only assume one of the people involved has an uncle at the BBC.

This is the real story:

"They had all agreed to work on a commission-only basis for the first six months. [...] Many felt they had no choice but to accept the terms in their contracts."

It's not like the BBC is going to challenge the real crooks though: the government of 21st century Dickensian Britain.

What were these "employees" doing for 6 months if they were not getting paid? :(

Just watched it. Not all that interesting if truth be told.

all of this is happening daily in corporate America, especially concerning web projects. i get scammed every few years by some shit talker..

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A million people just in the US died from that boogie man/virus. I knew 3 of them. Did you know anyone personally who died from it? I suspect not, hence why you are so ignorant about it.

Let that sink in.

We live in an era of ignorance