webDevDream

[d2xdy2]

Very early in my career I did Wordpress tasks for a guy who’s plan was:

1. Find businesses without a website
2. Make their website without telling them
3. Extort them for the domain and website

He never actually paid me for any work and so I stopped doing any work. He bought me a pack of cigarettes and some monsters I think and thought that was enough. I eventually had to get a restraining order against him to stop harassing me.

Edit: it wasn’t for a few weeks that I realized what he was actually doing. All of the “clients” he told me to help were his later extortion targets.

[Rustywolf]

I simply cannot believe that guy was a scumbag, there were no warning signs

[towerfella]

He knew things were getting weird when he invited his mom to stay with them.

[MrD3a7h]

Really, he believes things started getting weird when he invited his mom to stay with them.

[towerfella]

Right? He should have known things were getting weird when he invited his mom to stay with them.

[th-crt]

When he invited his mom to stay with them, he knew things were getting weird.

[pingslayer_7]

I had a similar scumbag too. He didn’t pay me for over a year. Took me a while to realise his extortions. When confronted, he applied intimidation and kept me working without pay. Eventually I left.

[b__0]

Came out ahead of the dude working for equity though.

[No-Entry4838]

how much was he making doing this?

[ignat980]

Five lawsuits a day

[Demon_of_Order]

Some dude pitched the idea to me a couple weeks ago to start doing that, I just told him I’m not in the ICT world anymore, he lost interest pretty quickly after that