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To all fellow web developers and web designers, if you are approached by Sakina Amin, dba Amin Teas or Ameen Teas, please exercise good judgement before accepting to do work for them. I know, I have experience.
In December 2008, this person added a project to a online freelancers job board wanting their website designed and developed. Unfortunately, my company won the bid. We informed the client that we require a 50% down payment to begin a project. This client sent us an echeck.
Oh, they sent me an echeck, it was taking weeks to clear, so I finally cancelled it. The client had her husband, Faraz Mirza send me the funds via his Paypal account. So, we started work…
We decide to spare no expense or effort on this project, building them a very robust e-commerce system based on Magento, well known as one of the best ecommerce platforms around today. We also intergrated a WordPress blog and a PHPBB forum.
We have spend weeks waiting on them to provide content for the site.
At one point, Sakina Amin was not responding for several months due to an unforeseen circumstance.
We waited some more…
Finally the client starting insisting that I upload the site to their hosting, even though they still had an outstanding bill for nearly $800.00.
Of course, we could not do that, as it would jeopardize our ability to collect our final payment.
We have attempted resolution with this client, but to no avail, as today I was informed by my merchant provider that they have requested a chargeback from their credit card provider, and was granted to them. The entire amount of their deposit was deducted from my merchant account.
Naturally, I am angry. So I began investigating this couple. Turns out, they were sued by Nike, Inc for Trademark Infringment. It apperars that way, doesn’t it.
Seething mad, I called my merchant provider, and I was told the chargeback was due to “item not received”. But she has a development copy of the website on her web server. So, that makes her chargeback fraudulent.
According to this whois, and this link to my company’s property, she has in fact RECEIVED IT. That makes what she has done, theft.
I’ll be right behind NIKE…
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