Internet Scams - ScriptLance and HYIP
Internet Scams show their ugly heads in all kinds of ways. This article addresses a scam that this developer ran into while working as a freelancer on scriptlance. I’m not just talking about the way they ripped me off and suspended my account without reason when I tried to withdraw my funds that I earned by working through their service. I’m also talking about the multitude of jobs posted asking for providers to supply scam websites openly and arrogantly. Apparently Scriptlance has done nothing to stop these projects from showing up on their website, and has done less to remove these criminal projects from their site.
After repeated attempts to report criminal listings to the Scriptlance crew (managed by r3n3.com), the HYIP projects and Cheating Google projects persist on being listed. Why do I say HYIP is criminal if they have an entire page of HYIP projects listed at Scriptlance website?
According to Fraud in the Corporate Context by the US Dept. of Justice…
S.E.C. v. Lauer, 52
F.3d 667, 670 (7th Cir. 1995), Chief Judge Posner declared Prime Bank Instruments do not exist. So even if [a co-schemer] had succeeded in raising money from additional investors, it would not have pooled their money to buy Prime Bank Instruments.
Therefore, according to this ruling, there is no such thing as HYIP that does not exist without the sole intention of scamming it’s supporters. If you support or use HYIP programs, you are either a victim or perpetrator of one of the scams that the Dept. of Justice is interested in bringing to court.
The one HYIP that is recommended by the the Securities and Exchange Commission, the North American Securities Administrators Association, the U.S. Treasury, and the Federal Trade Commission is at the HYIP site Before you jump me for posting that, check out their site…
So, if this is such a widespread problem and internet scam, why do these types of jobs proliferate on ScriptLance even after repeated attempts to notify them of this type of project? There are sites like Quatloos that point out all kinds of financial scams and list HYIP frequently as nothing more than a scam… EVER. The US Treasury Public Debt website lists HYIP as nothing but a scam. ScriptLance has not employed any sort of filter to restrict jobs that refer to HYIP and try to employ web designers to create these sites. Why does this type of site proliferate on ScriptLance more than others? What is it that they do to protect people from this growing scam? Anything?
Has anyone else had a problem with getting quick service from Scriptlance? They can suspend my membership there, but can’t tell me why it was suspended within nearly 48 hours. I asked why it was suspended within an hour of it being suspended. What kind of a service do they run at ScriptLance.com? Has anyone been scammed by Scriptlance before?
*** EDIT
It has been over 48 hours without a response from Scriptlance as to why my account was suspended. They did ask me why I was using two accounts, but after I informed them that I only have th eone account within 40 minutes of their ‘reply’ I haven’t heard from them in nearly 48 hours after the last communication.
Is this the kind of thing that others have had to endure when using Scriptlance?
** NEW EDIT
It has been 5 days…. I heard one more response where they asked me virtually the same worthless question as the first time and interestingly enough, the question they asked was answered in the first response I sent them. They waited over 48 hours to ask me a question that was answered in the first paragraph I had sent them more than 2 days prior. I need to inform the BBB of this… This is the worst customer service I have ever seen… ever!
September 21st, 2005 at 8:34 pm
[…] A friend tried to withdraw money today from his ScriptLance account, money he had earned and that was paid him by the contractor. Before the withdrawal was completed his account was shut down, with no explanation given. […]
February 24th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I have noticed that ScriptLance is a scam website, the project postings are nothing more than spam originating from the people running the site. I read stories on the net that the kid that runs the site, a twenty three year old, sits at home watching t.v. all day and doesn’t really know anything about programming or runing a site. I can not see their service being trusted for more than a couple dollars, and when they do have projects that are posted for a couple of dollars, more often than not they suspend the programmers account, and take the money. Check out the net there is a ton of people saying this all the time, I think they must be doing the same thing to webmasters, and redirecting the person to a programmers site to avoid any sort of trouble.