This is an exposition of what really happened. All the information here is supported by true email and Skype conversations between me, the scammers, and the authorities that are helping me. Those scammers could have used your name and photos – as you will read on the conversations I have had with them. With all transparency, I will share all those information to everyone. If your name was misused, you’re now informed. You can contact me to coordinate on how we can stop the perpetuators from further using your name in doing evil things. You may also do your part of clearing your name or helping me, whichever will serve us best.

 

Here is the whole story.

 

On December 29, 2014, a guy in the name of Lachlan requested me to connect on Skype. Here’s the content of his message invite:

 

[29/12/2014 7:09:27 PM] *** Lachlan Grimmett would like to add you on Skype

Bizify refred your contact, its regarding to talk about a job profile avaiable into our company which is for full time content writing position. ***

 

I accepted the invitation and we had our first conversation on December 31, 2014. Here is the full detail of our conversation.

 

 

 

 

 

On January 2, 2015, a guy in the name of David was introduced to me on Skype by Lachlan. This David was the Senior Project Manager to whom I directly reported during the entire course of the scam contract. David added other people in the Skype Interview on the same day. On January 3, 2015, the Skype Interview continued. Here is the full detail of our conversation.

 

 

 

 

 

On February 3, 2015, after one month of waiting, I received a contract offer letter from a guy named Richard (who was also part of the group who interviewed me on Skype). Another email stating how to count hours was also sent to me. This is the timesheet that I will be using at work. Here are the content of these emails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the same day, I received another email from David stating that I need to return the signed documents within 24 hours. I downloaded the attach contract documents, read them carefully, printed and signed them. I sent the signed documents on February 4, 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see the documents. I had no suspicion that the contract was a bogus one. I need a decent job by that time. I read it three times. I was scammed.

 

On February 8, 2014, David notified me that I should commence on the writing job on February 9, 2015. He sent me the details of the job. Here are the emails and documents about this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From February 9 to March 16, I wrote a total of 93 articles. You can find and read them all on this website.

 

On March 11, 2015, I asked David about the payment of my first 30 days of work. His response was I will have it by March 13, 2015. It was stated on the contract that invoices will be paid 30 business days. But since I already need the money, I asked David if payment can be done. Nothing goes to my PayPal account so I started to notify David from March 13 to 14 about the payment delays. No reply was received from David. Here are the details of our email conversation.

 

 

 

 

 

On March 16, 2015, I was still able to write 2 more articles thinking that David could have just forgotten to respond on my emails. I sent it to David. On the same day, I emailed David about my concerns on payment delays. Still no response was received from David from March 16 to 19.

 

On March 19, 2015, after consulting my friends, I decided to create an invoice and send it to David. David did not show off anymore. Here is the invoice.

 

 

 

 

 

From March 19 to 21, 2015, I conducted in-depth investigation. With my friends’ help, we discovered that these scammers are using names of people from the United States. They are using other’s names on their Skype and Gmail accounts. Their real identity cannot be found online. They’re true scammers. They fooled me.

 

On March 21, 2015, with my friends’ advice and help, I emailed the company whose logo and information are appearing on the contract documents which I signed and accepted. Immediately, the CEO responded back and confirmed to me that all the information (except the logo) appearing on the contract documents are not theirs. This is another big confirmation that I was scammed. I cooperated with this CEO and sent to him several information of people and documents behind the scam.

 

Here is the email sent to me by the CEO of the company which logo and other information was illegally used.

 

 

 

 

 

At this time of writing, I’m not yet fully recovered. All that I am thinking is to find a way on how I can recover my loses. I’m still in touch with the CEO of the true company. I still decided to send a final email to the scammers, particularly to David, stating that he has the final chance to pay me or face consequences in the near future. It didn’t materialize.

 

All my hope for a good-paying online job vanished. But I am moving on, finding another job the best I can. I want to share this to you because I want you to be aware of scams like this. I’m not sure of the scammers’ real intentions but all I want now is funds to support my financial needs. I am soon to be broke. Please read my appeal on the dedicated About page.

 

I know I was fooled. I did not think the right way. I was wrong. I’m just human. All I need was a good work with a stable income during that time because I am already running low of funds after working overseas. I failed. Whatever might happen on this, I will make it sure that everyone who happened to read this scam story will be informed.

 

Hope than you can support me on recovering my loses. Thank you.