It's placed in the fraudulent students section - this individual had a £750 chargeback put on his card from our PayPal account.

Kenneth Newman scam

Kenneth Newman .
email address - kenneth_law@*****
phone number - 07891******
IP address - ***.***.104.176

Studying Law/Human Rights in California.

Essay titled, "How, and with what success, has the U.S. legal system managed the trade-off between the values of supporting creative pursuits through copyright protection and promoting innovation in new communication technologies, in specific relation to the problems raised by file-sharing on the Internet by companies such as Napster Ltd., Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Ltd.?"

Are we still on about this matter! Her details are on-line, the essay is available for universities to see and expel her for plagiarism, the Police won't investigate as they haven't the recourses to help (I have spoken to them) and we're currently in the process of changing to a decent system to accept payments as PayPal is clearly not secure. You can accept what you want as you don't know the full story and, if she wants to make a complaint, she is more than welcome. We'll see if she comes forward shall we? I doubt very much that a fraudster is going to try and play the 'breaching privacy' card. Maybe if more companies exposed fraudulent clients and those breaking the law there would be a lot less of this behaviour. I'm quite surprised that someone who writes so vigilantly on this website is championing the case of a criminal. I'll leave you to trawl the site looking for posts to add your views. As I have more important things to do than argue the toss with you I'll end this topic here. Oh, before I go, thanks to Dylan for getting in contact with me, what you said was very helpful.

This will be my final post in response to 'WritersBeware' inane questions. It has nothing to with being vengeful, what the client did was ILLEGAL and she was given plenty of opportunity to respond to the emails she was sent by the company. In response to Torchwood, I don't think she scammed us, I know she did. PayPal didn't 'back' her claim, her card company proved she 'wasn't present' when she paid, as it was a phone payment that is glaringly obvious.

I am not trying to humiliate her, if she had taken £840 from you I doubt you'd be sitting back thinking "tut-tut, I hope this doesn't hurt me in any way." Also, as she is refusing to answer any calls or respond to any emails I'd assume she has done this before and changes email addresses and phone numbers on regular occasions. The essay has been uploaded on our Powerful Words website so, hopefully, her university will discover it.

As for breaching the data protection act, well, she has a limited right under the Data Protection Act to tell an individual or organisation to stop processing information about her if it is causing her unwarranted and substantial damage or distress. She should make this clear and it must be done in writing. I'll put her response on this forum should get a letter to me.

Matt.

Well, I emailed her three times, phoned around four times leaving messages asking her if it was a mistake and trying to discover what was happening. She never responded though seemed to be able to recieve messages fine from PayPal when they tried to contact her. We take CARD FRAUD (which this is) very seriously. I told her exactly what was going to happen and she ignored me completely. I'll give you her side of the story now if you wish. She orders an essay for £840, recieves it and is very happy, waits two months, charges the payment back to her card, has the essay and the money back, has name put on web to expose what has happened.

Matt.

I work for powerfulwords.co.uk and oxbridgewriters.com. I uploaded a fraud page today on Powerful Words so, fingers crossed, this fraudster will get caught by her university.

She had the essay then, after recieving it, she waited 2 months before having a chargeback put on her card. PayPal agreed and took £840 from our PayPal account and basically gave it her back. Great!