50 Scammers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What he did here is CRIMINAL... no ifs ands or butts about it... if you feel otherwise then i have a bridge i can sell u

I have no reason to be paranoid, nor am I.

I dont care what peoples "perception" of him was/is. Fact is, the guys pop up, take in a lot of work, UNDERCUT designers with good reputations, they use the desire to save a few bucks (greed) and sympathy )compassion) to run their scams and real businessman running design business sit back and watch it all go down.

As I said, i deleted his spam when he posted it on my forum because I saw he was doing it across a bunch of boards and it looked "scammy" to me, I just kept my mouth shut until it blows up... no portfolio site and hotmail? PLEASE

Im just calling it like i see it, anyone who falls for any of this guys lies has no idea who real confidence artists work.

They play on your greed, then use compassion to win you back. Seriously, read the cards... all cons have to build up a slight rep then run off with money, of course he delivered at first, most cons will, then they get double the money...

i am naked now

I'm not defending him - I agree that it was criminal, however Fletch is going "he must have scammed MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ALL ALONG, EVERYTHING HE SAYS IT'S A LIE!" It's a waste of energy, and assuming fake things dillutes the weight of the real act.

I agree, sorry.

EDIT: Just read last Fletch's post now, got what you're saying now :) The reason he didn't have a portfolio site was that he got out of adult beginning of last year and he didn't renew his domain. Before I ordered the logo (which I could've done myself but indeed was trying to help) I checked his background and i remembered I had seen a nice design he had for sale months ago and that the links were down.

and I was thinking something like this before .. but he's just Scammer .. he can told me he can't get my money back that soon if that's the case .. but NO, he told me he'll back my money on 28st Jan. when he get his "salary" .. after 28st I've sent him email and he told me he's loaded his paypal and there's 3-4 days to show up .. and THEN AGAIN no money and told me if the money don't show up some his "friend" will send me the money ..
Got the picture man ?

bump ...

That`s pretty lame.
Bump for the money

Yup, got it - I never excused him for what he did to you, I was specifically talking about the designs and Fletch's reaction.

I am really sorry that happened to you :( I hope things turn around.

the writing was on the wall... as a designer I tend to have an opinion on these types, as ive been in this biz 10 years now, and guys like him should stay in mainstream scamming people. he clearly cant cut in adult :2 cents:

no sympathy for the scammers

this is the same as stealing some old lady purse with $1000 in it, i bet his collected way more than 1k.

sorry my opinion seems to irritate you, however, it won't change the fact he is a criminal.

You are too fast to react :P I am now agreeing with you! I was just explaining to Tulku what I meant with that post, I am not looking for problems nor deffending a criminal at all! When I have money problems, I work hard and get paid afterwards. I have been scammed in the past, so I know how it is... so please, don't put words in my mouth out of my poor grammar.

:( :(

They should feel sympathy for the people he ripped off...

I made an offer to begin helping him make things right, lets see if he takes me up on my proposal:
http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?p=...5#post15437035

Contact his local authorities and file a criminal complaint for fraud. It may not ever go anywhere, but he needs the shit scared out of him. Some may see his initial response as brutal honesty, but it appears as though he just assumes he can fraudulently take someone's money at his convenience, make up his own payment terms and everything will be ok.

wow.. what a douche.. so now that he's been called out for being a scammer and a thief, what's he do, he takes money from more people via design jobs and scams them too!!.. What a cunt.

fucking sucker scammer

I just got email from him:

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What i did was crimonal, yes i know. They talkin about "he even admits it". What the fuck am i supposed to do? Say it's not criminal and something that anybody would do. And im not trying to get sympathy from anyone. I was just trying to get you a picture of what lead to all this shit.

Anyway, no matter what you think of me. I have no intentions of getting back in the industry, so im not trying to save my reputation.

You said "he could told me he can't get my money back that soon if that's the case". I just could not send you another mail and ask for more time. That was just to much.

But, take this for what it's worth. I guess you wont belive me, but it's pure fact. I have talked to a relative today. I have not told him what it's about, just asked for a loan.
He'll loan me $500. If you give me your wire details i'll wire it 20th this month. That's two and a half week from now. I'll scan the reciept and email it to you. You're in Europe. I guess it should show up Tuesday or Wednesday after that.

This is my way of trying to solve all this shit. Is this something that will work for you.

Again, i have no reputation to try to save, and i'm not looking for sympathy. I just want to solve this.
And as i said, i'll scan and email the reciept as soon as i get back from the bank.

/Michael

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and another one:

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And also, im gonna jump on Naughty-pages offer http://www.gfy.com/showthread.php?p=...5#post15437035
and design 50 banners and he pay $200 epass to you for them.

So if you agree to take $300 wire onthe 20th this month and $200 from Naughty-pages when i have finished his order i have paid back everything i owe you.
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:-/ so I guess in theory he can deliver the pre-paid design jobs and another way for this to be solved was for him to take more jobs from other people but everyone going around paying to the people who are owed money? :helpme

Dang mang, that sucks, hope shit gets worked out, especially for you CIVMatt.

You know when i was younger and before i worked on my own i sometimes had problems paying my bills. Know what i did? I worked. Yes really, i worked. I worked my ass off. I took shitty jobs everywhere i could. I did 2 shifts in 24 hours. I worked as much as was needed to pay my bills. Every time i read these idiot stories of someone who feels really bad that he stole money but he HAS to pay his bills i wonder why the fuck can't he work for his money? Instead he stays home behind his computer begging for design work he won't get.
I have no sympathy for this piece of shit whatsoever unless he has no legs or something and simply can't do any other work which i doubt.

I hope someone screws him over 10 times as bad and will tell him "sorry man, i had to pay some bills, nothing personal".

Frankkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Oh crap!

Pathetic and in 2 weeks he'll be posting here like nothing happened.

wow ......

It sounds like another designer who got out of the business a few weeks ago promising to pay people back, sometime. If only I could remember the website name.

This story is obvious bullshit, of course. He came up with the excuse to buy himself board time to run more scams.

hope its sorted

i want to book him for desines.

bit worried now.

hm, damn

I´ve seen so many scammers come an go on GFY, but he at least admitted. That doesn´t defend his scam, but maybe it´s worth to give him a chance.

Give him a chance then, put your money where your mouth is

He has done two designs for me last year and I didn´t have problems with him. He delivered on time. I ordered another one some days ago and I´m sure he will deliver.

Tulku, I hope you get your money back.

But I just can't understand: if you need exchange why don't you ask a biz partner / friend of yours instead of how you tried to resolve? I am a nobody but I have 2-3 friends who are always willing to change for me for zero % and obviously I help them out the same way whenever they ask...

i just wonder why someone would take the scamming route, especially if he/she has some skills.. ah well i guess it's because some peeps are lazy and there's work involved if you want to get paid.

I thought he had a decent portfolio?

It's OK to beg for work. He could have told the forum his story and designed a tour for what he needed. Someone would have gotten a deal, He would have gotten work and been able to pay his bills.

and in this industry if you do 1 thing good for someone they often come back with more work. More money!

Fuckin weirdos.

this thread delivers...er um maybe not:disgust

That's why I just assume everyone at GFY is full of shit until they prove to me otherwise.

What a crazy story.

scammers everywhere

Very good. just for your information, Michael, worked for bizarredollars, and he did hundreds of designs for Alan and Myself, in fact other banner thread his examples are ALL bizarre designs, and we did not have any problems what so ever, but when things got hard for him, that is when this started so, I do know Michael is struggling, but he still has scammed, I have nothing but admiration for the work he has done.... and i still think (hope) maybe he can salvage something, and not let his talent go to waste, people know they will have to have the designs done first and then the money on delivery....

http://www.gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/885451-3-banners-16-a.html banners=bizarredollars

If he´s honest, he´ll take orders, deliver and get the payment when designs are finished. Of course he has to pay back what he has taken. I hope everything will be resolved.

Thanks for the support to all ..
before a couple of hours I've posted that he sent me again email and I have replied .. so the agreement is he'll do some banners work for Naughty-pages .. and Naughty-pages will send the money to me for this work .. let's see how will work this out .. If he do this I think you'll get your work done .. If not .. well he knows ..

fyi, I retracted what I said

"I actually take it back, I have NEVER support scammers (ie DarkJedi / FantacyContentTracy / etc) and I NEVER will

....and I was mistaken before, YES this was a full blown scam what you did Michael/Paysighting, I want nothing to do with scammers"

You are not the only one, he told me also he was on his daughters computer:

I have some mails from him, he worked for me several months but we fired him:

Reply-To: <[email protected]>
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>

Subject:
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:20:53 +0200

Hi John,

On Friday i made like 50% of the hosting index page. Will finish it =
today, and upload the zip.

I got to ask you something. And, take my word for it, i would never ever =
have ask if it was'nt absolutely necsessary.
You remember i told you about Alan. The guy who died in a heart attack, =
that i worked fulltime for over at bizardollars.
When i lost that job everything went to shit, to say the least. Five =
months past between when he died and i got the fulltime with you, which =
i'm very thankful for.
Those five months managed to completely ruin my economy. Not that hard =
to figure.
Anyway, bills piled up.=20

What i was going to ask you was if it's possible to pay the salary for =
May and June at the same time (that's 2000 x 2- the $100 cash advance =
you already paid a week ago)?
That would mean that i will be unpaid next month, of course.
But my wife has just started her new job, and will get her first full =
salary next month, so we will manage to "survive" anyway.

I know it's much to ask, but as i said, that would really save my =
economy alot.
I dont know, but i hope all this makes sense.

Is this possible?

/Michael

When he started for us I did give him a bonus of about 900 US.

I can make Ice work with this to banned his ip and never posts again

what a sexy thread. damn

I thought Ice was not around anymore?

Anywhoo... hold off on a ban recommendation and read this first:

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...1#post15439698

...

don't ban him. Looks like he wants to work things out.

Update:
he has done some work for Naughty-Pages already .. and I've got the first $125 ..

I don't know... If this is the first time and he's been around for a long time.... I see someone desperate! I might be wrong, but...... Nice to see some people tries to help him pay his debts!

Id take you as a new client :P

Where is he from? https://complaint.ic3.gov/ctf.aspx :thumbsup What an immature prick, he needs to be taught a fucking lesson. Let him rot in jail for awhile.