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MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 13, 2012 | #41
So, what's the update?

It seems there are no honest services out there

Many of them are not. But a few of them are. The same goes to individual writers, middlemen, students, etc. It's how the world has been created (I guess).

Any update on...

payment?

FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 13, 2012 | #42
Nope. Sent this last night. Last contact from her was 2 late night phone calls the night before promising payment at 1:00 PM today from her driver, James. It's now almost 2:00 PM (the time stamp on my posts is 1 hour off). No response to this email or to another one this morning. Hopefully, nothing but a misunderstanding with an honest company representative that I'll be happy to clear up after all debts are paid honorably as promised many many times.

Hala, please confirm exactly what our plans are for Monday...how am I getting paid, by what method or by whom, and what time of day? I will be awake after Noon, local NYC time.

If plans should fall through for any reason on Monday, I'm going to ask you for your local address and phone number in NYC so that I can have someone just pick it up from you in person. If you are really in NYC, there is absolutely no plausible explanation for why you would not be able to provide your local phone # and street address after all this time because all you have to do is ask your doorman for the address of your building and you can find out any NYC phone # you are calling from by asking the operator or by just dialing 1-800-444-4444...a recording will tell you what your phone number is. Obviously, James also knows your address and you have his phone # in your phone. If you can reach him to give instructions to pay me, you also ask him for your address.

If you are not really in NYC, please just tell me the truth because there is no point in playing games if you're not and it is impossible for you not to be able to find out your building # and street address. In that case, I really don't care, but please do tell me if you're going to pay me and when and how. If you're not really planning on paying me or you are only willing to pay me a portion of the debt, just tell me the truth so we can stop wasting one another's time.

Thank you.

-Charles.
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 13, 2012 | #43
It seems that you have laid all your cards in this email. It seems to offer your final evaluation to Hala; it is now the matter of time to see how she responds. I am also hopeful and positive like you.
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 13, 2012 | #44
I'm not. Sorry to say. I think she has stalled as long as she can and now must put up or shut up and methinks going on her behaviour with me it will be the latter.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 13, 2012 | #45
Once I reach that same conclusion, I'll provide much more detail about this whole 3-month ordeal.
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 13, 2012 | #46
Freelance, have you set a cut off? Either a time and day or perhaps the next excuse? Given the conversations and I expect emails, I would suggest the next step is a formal letter of demand. Followed by a (in my jurisdiction) Liquidated Statement of Claim from the small claims/Magistrates court. Cost about $75 and you can serve it by registered mail to her business address. I doubt she has property in NYC but if she has this could get interesting. If she fails to respond you have the matter heard and found against her and then you can have Judgment served and a black mark on her credit record. Perhaps if she has property in NYC, get a lien placed against it so she can't sell or dispose of the property without paying you. And by then we are talking costs plus interest and so on. It is a bit of effort but no hassle, despite what people think. Here I just go to the court, see the Chamber Magistrate and swear the complaint, pay the fee then serve it myself. Keep it in mind as an option. I won't do it for the $50 she owes me (officially $43 I think, got to check my screen shot of my account at WRT) but I would if she owed my $1750.

Another thing, with a Judgment it is easy to get her ISP and also SWreg and other payment processors who deal with her to impose sanctions, deny her business etc. I know PayPal would force her to pay you under those circumstances. See, ther eis always hope. Cheers Perry

Just a note to save everyone howling: I know NYC is different and the court procedures and costs will be different to where I live. I am saying that if it were I, this is what I would do and how much it would cost me. I am sure he can print out the emails to support his claim. If I really wanted to have fun, I have relatives in the UK, one in the police and the other in a fun section of the Home Office, both have said they would be happy to put pressure, within the law of course, on anyone who rips me off. I might get the one that lives in Manchester to run past the address of the WRT offices and scope it out, chat to neighbours and all the things you can't do via Google Maps.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 13, 2012 | #47
Unfortunately, I don't think there's any basis for U.S. jurisdiction and it's still too little to make it worth pursuing internationally from here with investigation fees and foreign attorney's costs, but I've sent you a PM with another idea we can consider if it becomes necessary. From the looks of things, it's pretty obvious that's going to be the case. No word from her since her last call two nights ago promising that James would deliver payment about 12 hours ago.
queen sheba  53 | 648 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 13, 2012 | #48
BTW, Freelancerwriter, i really admire how you have handled the whole issue thus far- even when it is clear someone might be playing games with you, you still opt to remain a gentleman and give WRT generous dose of ' benefit of doubt' even when it appears she doesn't deserve. That is the hallmark of a gentleman.

How i wish some members were like you...........................
WritersBeware  
Feb 13, 2012 | #49
Thanks again for proving how much of a flaming idiot you are by so obviously failing to understand the situation in which Freelance finds himself.
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #50
Any word on that mountain of research you've compiled, Queenie?
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 14, 2012 | #51
Thanks again for proving how much of a flaming idiot you are by so obviously failing to understand the situation in which Freelance finds himself.

How true. I have gone beyond that point, hence my posting here. Until I had passed the point of knowing there'd be no return I was also very generous in my giving the benefit of the doubt. Why not? It is like Pascal's Wager. If you accuse you lose, but if you stay nice until there is no point anymore you just might surprise yourself. I think Freelance has almost arrived at the point where there is little to be gained etc. Having said that, I also acknowledge his gentlemanly tone, after all, nothing is gained by being rude and so on, it only reflects badly on oneself. It can feel good, though... hahahaha
queen sheba  53 | 648 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 14, 2012 | #52
Thanks again for proving how much of a flaming idiot you are by so obviously failing to understand the situation in which Freelance finds himself.

What is up this time, WritersBware:
i have simply acknowledged how he has handled the issue in a mature way, despite being obviously conned BY YOUR CLOSE DOG, WRT.
WitchBeware, i am still to get around how you've survived this far with such a sick, imprisoned and attention seeking soul.
Once more, i tell it you right in your face: Get your mental architecture repaired...................trying to impress ignorant students here with your writing/investigation 'skills' amount to nothing more than parading your wealth to the poorest of the poor.

But then, old witch, i exactly knows what ails you. The internet did truly gave avenues to sick souls to vomit their filth anonymously.

Any word on that mountain of research you've compiled, Queenie?

Your old witch(WB) is pressing you to remind me of the research?
Ever asked yourself this: why is your pal- freelancewriter- much, much more respected than you?
ever asked yourself why students prefer freelancewriter to you?
BTW, syphilis, your a.s.s is-for the umpteenth time- in the line of fire. Apparently you've stolen yet another $600 from a student who is baying for your dirty ass. @ all members: check the latest complaints against pheelyks in essaychat
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #53
So, yeah...evidence? You're really good at ignoring direct questions, I realize, but surely you'll acknowledge my repeated requests for the research you say you have at some point?
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 14, 2012 | #54
It seems that the Hala story is moving to a certain conclusion. I'd suggest you do anything possible to get your hard-earned pay in your hand. Is it your first paycheck coming from Hala or you have received some in the past?

check the latest complaints against pheelyks in essaychat

We're sure it is you and some of your outright company employees who are doing this on EC. Anyone can make a post there without any verification. Secondly, the proof referred to on EC is a link from this forum. That thread clearly tells everyone who is at fault. You're not ashamed of being so devoid of self-respect.

YOUR efforts to defame people on this forum (without any evidence) tells everyone you ARE a COWARDLY COMPETITOR.
queen sheba  53 | 648 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 14, 2012 | #55
We're sure it is you and some of your outright company employees who are doing this on EC. Anyone can make a post there without any verification. Secondly, the proof referred to on EC is a link from this forum. That thread clearly tells everyone who is at fault. You're not ashamed of being so devoid of self-respect.

1) would your care to name my 'company', meawcon
2) Young boy, learn to make comprehensible arguments before posting your worthless drivel.
3) Of course you have to lick pheelyks' shameless a.s.s in order to sound genuine and perhaps attract a customer.

YOUR efforts to defame people on this forum (without any evidence) tells everyone you ARE a COWARDLY COMPETITOR.

Your ignorance is astonishing. Care to tell me my competitors, imbecile?
MeowCon, please as i told you from the beginning , no amount of your boot-licking servitude will ever convince even the most gullible students that you possess the skills, knowledge and competence to engage in professional writing. Sounding genuine(in the eyes of your amirs(Wb& Pheleaks) won't convert your thirsty email into a well coursing with emails from students. If you have a quarter-decent brain, you should have realized that by now, Bedouin.

Playing Uncle Tom won't take you anywhere, either. When you first joined this forum, WB& co really whipped your cowardly ass into submission. What do you have to show for that?

As i previously told you, no self respecting student would ever use a horribly 'qualified' Pakistani-an 'writer' like you operating from a potential Al qaeda attack dungeon. I am sure no students want this excuse: 'Your assignment was screwed up by an Al-Qaeda grenade'. You'd perform much better as full time pimp.

I am sure Pheelyks would use your services whenever he visits Pakistan.
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #56
We're sure it is you

Of course it's "her." It's not a coincidence that those "complaints" appear at the same time she's active on this forum.
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 14, 2012 | #57
would your* care to name my 'company', meawcon

Every visitor on this forum knows you're a competitor in the guise of an "intellectual". You can't fool anyone.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 14, 2012 | #58
Is it your first paycheck coming from Hala or you have received some in the past?

No, I've received several payments previously, although always very late and only after repeated reminders. I stopped writing for them in October because I hadn't been paid for the work I completed over the summer. First contacted Hala about it in November and eventually received $500 less approximately 10% in Money Gram fees, just as in Perry's case, although I didn't have to open any kind of account for it.

Starting in late November, she told me that she'd issued a wire transfer of the rest of the money owed and told me it would be deposited in 10 business days. When it wasn't, I contacted her and she apologized, promising it would be deposited in another week. That never happened and the next promised payment dates were Dec 25 and then Jan 1st. When nothing came through by Jan 10th, we went through two more rounds of promised wire transfers, the last of which she said that she personally confirmed by checking the bank statement and that it was guaranteed and non-refundable.

When no wire transfer came through, she began talking about Money Gram transactions again. My questions about what had actually happened to the wire transfers never got answered. At that point, I began forwarding the email chains directly to WritersBeware because I'd seen how the other writers here who had complained about not getting paid by WRT were all accused of having been fired or of lying about the facts. I wanted an independent observer (who happens to be the industry's premier authority on this kind of thing) to see what was going on before I posted about it publicly. Hala never provided the pickup code for the first two MG transactions and never explained what happened to them. Then, after profuse apologies, she guaranteed that the next one would go through. I asked just about every single day for the pickup codes (she'd said there were 3 of them) and forwarded WB all the responses from her promising to get me those 3 codes the next day...and the next day...and the next day...she kept telling me that those codes were in the process of being "verified" and she never responded to my requests to have those actual codes in the meantime.

She eventually gave me one code but when I called to confirm, MG had no record of it, at least not associated with any variation of my last name. I informed Hala that MG could not confirm any transaction in my name and she responded that it was because she'd paid extra for a "category 4" transaction that was more secure and unable to be accessed in the MG system by MG service reps. So, I went to the MG website and used their system to ask about that. This was their response, verbatim:

From: CustomerService <CustomerService@moneygram.com>
Subject: XCRM0097249
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:51:04 +0000

Thank you for contacting MoneyGram International. Please accept our apologies for the delayed response. Once the transfer is completed, it is available in our system within 10 minutes, and we do not have "Category 4" transactions. We were unable to find an available transaction under your name and suggest that you contact your sender in order to obtain reference number and transaction details. If you have any additional questions, please contact us by email, or call our customer service line at 1-800-926-9400.

Regards,
Customer Care Case Management Specialist
MoneyGram International
OAS This message may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system.


Then, Hala started talking about having the money issued by an agent of hers. A few rounds of promises and assurances but no money. Some of those responses were emails she said she was composing while she was personally at the agent's office waiting to get my information for me (and WB is in possession of all of these emails because I forwarded them as they came in).

After some more inquiries about it, I got an email from Hala's IPad that said it was from her sister and informing me that Hala had entered Cromwell Hospital for surgery and would get back to me after she recovered. So I went to the Cromwell Hospital website to get their phone # and I tried calling just to wish Hala my best. The hospital checked for her name and found nothing. So, I let Hala's sister know and she responded with a different spelling of her last name that she said Hala used. I called Cromwell back but the same thing happened: no record of any patient by that name.

A few more rounds of email promises but no answer to what ever happened to any of those wired transactions, the MG transactions, or the money issued by the agent.

Then, she said she'd be in NYC the following week and we shifted from emails to repeated phone messages and conversations, each and every one of which I recorded. She said she would pay me in person, take my wife and me out to dinner, in addition to inquiring into whether I had kids so that she could bring them all IPads. As in Perry's case, she always talked about wanting to pay me an advance of $1,000/mo for an entire year and I eventually stopped saying that I just wanted the $1,750 because it always got us off the topic of immediate payment. That's about the point that I started posting here about this hoping that might motivate her to make good on the debt. She also promised to provide her local phone # and address as soon as she arrived. As you've already read, she called me a half a dozen times since arriving in NYC but after 3 or 4 days in town, had still not managed to find out which Trump building she lives in (and on which Trump building her father built a roof-top home for her driver), what her address is, what street the building is on, or what her local phone number is.

Since I pointed out how implausible all of that is, I no longer get any phone calls, any emails, or even any auto-responses from her email account.

That's the story, and, as always, I have made no accusations, comments. or conclusions beyond stating what actually happened and what was said. WB has dozens of these emails and I can post audio files of the phone conversations or her acknowledging the debt and repeatedly promising to pay up. Naturally, if that should happen, I'll let everyone here know immediately.
stu4  21 | 856 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 14, 2012 | #59
FreelanceWriter

You and Pheelky - thats where your GREED lead you. Instead sticking with companies that pay you regularly, you think you have the skill to be successful on your own. YOu and Pheelky are weak amateours. And poor writers at same time.

You should now actually "congratulate" Pheelky - now you know what is like when you do a job and you dont get paid coz morons like Pheelky encourage clients to 'start chargeback procedure.' Now you have your own chargeback and see how fun it is.
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #60
Instead sticking with companies that pay you regularly, you think you have the skill to be successful on your own.

W're both quite successful on our own, thanks. Not only does your company not pay regularly, but what it does pay is barely more than minimum wage for US/UK writers--that's why your greed makes it impossible for your companies to produce decent work.

Now you have your own chargeback and see how fun it is.

Oh my gosh! Stu4 is completely misinterpreting/misrepresenting events in an effort to try to make himself look good, but in fact just looks like a lying idiot? Well, there's a first time for everything...
stu4  21 | 856 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 14, 2012 | #61
W're both quite successful on our own, thanks.

Naive ESL clients still buy your misereble BS but thinking student know its just BS what you produce.
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #62
I have many repeat customers from the US and UK, but thanks for playing.
stu4  21 | 856 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 14, 2012 | #63
I have many repeat customers from the US and UK

Most of them have to start chargeback procedure to get their money back after the crap paper delivered in their mailbox.
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #64
Less than 1% of my orders have ever entered any type of chargeback proceedings. You're talking out of your ass again--does it ever get old?
stu4  21 | 856 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 14, 2012 | #65
Less than 1% of my orders have ever entered any type of chargeback proceedings.

Other 80-90% want to chargeback you but becauze you threaten to contact their schools (its documented on this forum) they give up and lose money.
pheelyks  
Feb 14, 2012 | #66
Other 80-90% want to chargeback you but becauze you threaten to contact their schools

Really? Show me the tiniest shred of evidence to back this up and I'll quite the business right now.

its documented on this forum

What's documented on this forum, and what I'll readily admit to anyone that asks, is that one moron purchased work from me, lied about the work, posted false quotes he purported to be from that work, posted false quotes he purported be from my emails to him, posted false information about the "grade" he supposedly received for illegally turning in my work, and was then reported as a means of protecting myself from legal troubles because he was publicly bragging about breaking the law. He also disappeared as soon as his lies were exposed.
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 14, 2012 | #67
Naturally, if that should happen, I'll let everyone here know immediately.

I am wondering where WRT is. Has WRT responded to your queries anywhere during this communication? Secondly, I am guessing she is trying to usurp your hard earned money. This seems very clear. I hope you're ready for some serious action.

thats where your GREED lead you.

You are so senseless. I wonder if you have anything called the thinking brain.

EVERY single person in this world has the right to do everything possible (within law) to put efforts to earn a living. A person like you loses respect among people. I hope you be careful in passing amateur judgment next time.
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 14, 2012 | #68
Stu4, Queen Sheba and Heremeout are not helping this forum one bit. Personal grievances should have their own thread. All these snipes are doing is detracting from the original issue, which is HK and her business not paying me or Freelance Writer. I can tell Freelance from personal experience that now you have called her bluff and she has ceased responding, she will not respond again to you. If she would, then she would have replied to my post here. She does monitor this forum, that is how I connected with her in the first place. So those of you with your own agendas, please start your own thread and pursue them there. Kindly leave this thread for the original topic.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 14, 2012 | #69
I can tell Freelance from personal experience that now you have called her bluff and she has ceased responding, she will not respond again to you. If she would, then she would have replied to my post here.

I realized that all along; that's why I waited all this time to post the details until I was 100% certain that she has absolutely no intention to pay me. Obviously, I never believed that anybody built a home for her driver on the roof of any Trump building with a "special permit." By the time someone says that she's in NYC (for 4 days) but still has no idea which Trump building, what address, what street, or what local phone # (in a luxury doorman building with a 24-hour lobby staff available to answer questions like "Excuse me, what is the address of this building where I have a million-dollar apartment?"), you know that they'll just keep saying anything and will never just admit that you're never getting paid. The only mystery to me is why spend all this time answering emails and making international calls just to drag out what's eventually going to be obvious in the long run?

Ultimately, my experience is virtually identical to that of every other writer on this forum who has complained of not being paid and then been accused of being fired...except in my case, I have all the promises by phone recorded and WB can confirm that I forwarded dozens of emails acknowledging the amount of the debt in question throughout the last month or so.

And she can prove me wrong anytime by just calling me from her NYC #
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 14, 2012 | #70
I figured you were playing that game, same one I played for months also. I don't get it either. Why didn't she just come out with it? I think it is because people like this can't, it is part of what drives them to rip off in the first place I guess. It is a game to them yet it is a livelihood to us.
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 15, 2012 | #71
Ultimately, my experience is virtually identical to that of every other writer on this forum who has complained of not being paid and then been accused of being fired...except in my case, I have all the promises by phone recorded and WB can confirm that I forwarded dozens of emails acknowledging the amount of the debt in question throughout the last month or so.

With this transaction coming to an unfavorable end, I would like WRT to either leave Hala's company or this forum. Every serious member of this forum must boycott Hala in any form on this forum or away from it. Secondly, we should not sit back and lament the fact that one of the senior writers here has been "scammed", yes SCAMMED by a supposedly legit company, including many others like Perry.

I suggest we pool some ideas on how to retaliate.

Why didn't she just come out with it?

Their work goes this way. Who knows how many writers Hala kept in the limbo simultaneously to FW. Perhaps they were still able to write papers for her, and she was counting the money.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 15, 2012 | #72
I would like WRT to either leave Hala's company

Same person: WRT = Hala (That's never been in dispute.)
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 15, 2012 | #73
I see. I think Hala should be banned from this forum then.
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 17, 2012 | #74
I sent this to Hala, just to see if I would get a bite:

"Hala, I don't expect any more payment from you but I would appreciate an explanation. What happened? Why the change? I have done nothing wrong and I trusted you. My kids trusted you to make their Christmas a little brighter, or at least they would have had I told them of your promises of bonuses and so on. However I am not that naive. I really would like to know if things went badly for your business or is this the SOP?"

And I got this back:

"Payment was sent when we said it was and now you have forced us to take action for
Public libel. That was the last thing I wanted to do but it is not my decision to make. Our lawyers in new Zealand have already been contacted and the posts were traced to you. Why have us take this route? I did not want it out of respect for you"

To which I have replied:

"Without Prejudice

I look forward to having this dealt with in court. I will produce the communications from you telling me there is still money outstanding, that it will be paid by this date and so on. I have recordings of our telephone conversations as well as all emails with full headers etc.

Hala, I was a Military Police Special Investigation Branch investigator, later an expert witness providing litigation support services to the biggest law firms in the country and on and on. I assure you any attempt at suing me for libel will fail as I can support everything I have written with documentary evidence. I have friends at the Bar who would handle this pro bono for me for the giggle factor, here and in the UK. I have relatives in the UK that are very well placed to apply the law to you and your business on my behalf. In a word, you are outgunned.

Apart from all this, we both know you are just making threats and you know you have no case, quite the opposite in fact. I won't waste the court's time for $50, which is what I believe I am still owed, not the $400 you promised on several documented occasions. I know your M.O. is to threaten legal action and most people will shiver and shake and you will intimidate them etc. Not this bear.

Where will you bring this matter to court? In New Zealand? Why? Your business is, according to you, registered in the UK. Any 'libel' you allege and of course specifically prove did neither originate in New Zealand or the UK. Can you demonstrate you have been harmed in New Zealand? There is no obligation for me to attend a court hearing in a civil matter in either location, unless you will pay me my reasonable expenses to attend, in advance. As for damages, what harm has come to your reputation, business and so forth? Get real Hala. This game you play has run its course with this writer."

This is her usual tactic, to try and scare you off with threats of legal action. I would not be surprised if she even makes up some quasi-legal letter form a solicitor and sends that but I think she will now have enough sense to go back to silent mode. I have no idea why she wants to alert her lawyer in New Zealand when I haven't been there since 1993 for a two week seminar tour.

Any updates, Freelance?

I just got home and found this in my inbox from Hala:

"We are registered in all countries where we have partners.
You will see if it is a game. By they way, we can produce the moneygram code but given your actions, it will be in a court of law."

So I replied with:

"Without Prejudice (This means she can't present this in court as evidence, but then neither can I)

Hala, court of law? Are there any others? Yes, no dispute re the Moneygram, I received US$225 and prior to that US$170, but what about the rest? What about the promises? What about the job and US$2,000 a month? All on tape, all never delivered. I'm talking about the remainder you promised. Lots of promises and then? Then nothing. Classic con artist tactics. Go your hardest. Actions? You are the one that has lied and told untruths and strung me and many others along. What are you going to allege I am guilty of? Libel? I think you should refresh your memory on the laws of libel. It can't be libel if it is true and I have the evidence to prove and support anything I have written. I expect you will lower yourself to personal insults next. It's what people with your psyche profile normally do in these situations once you realise you have lost control. Look up 'vexatious litigation' while you are reading up on libel."

Basically there is nothing she can do because she is in the wrong. Even if she wasn't I am not about to lob up to a UK court and answer her allegations. If she managed to get a hearing here it would be thrown out for lack of any grounds. This legal threat is just that. Con artists use it all the time because most of us accept their bluff that they have the money to pay for legal action and we don't. Given where I have published my statements she has no grounds for claiming libel or defamation, especially when I produce the emails from last year of her inviting me to write for her after meeting me via this site. She is angry that I have questioned her and called her bluff, as well as making her have to confront her own delusions that maybe she isn't this super smart, super rich international businesswoman jetting around the world with drivers on tap and staying in penthouse apartments etc. Like most con artists when their schemes begin to unravel they become rather pathetic, don't you think? Anyway, if she replies I will post it her but I won't respond. I will use her tactic against her now I have drawn her out. That will frustrate her even more, I think. Another example of her loss of control of me and this matter.
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 17, 2012 | #75
Any updates, Freelance?

Nope. Never heard a another word from her after the email reproduced earlier in this thread where I suggested it is implausible that someone could really be in NYC for 4 days and still have no idea which Trump building, what address, what street, or what local phone number...especially in the same building where her family owns a penthouse apartment they built for their personal chauffeur.
MeoKhan  10 | 1357   ☆☆   Freelance Writer
Feb 17, 2012 | #76
The matter has come to a final end. I suggest we think seriously on addressing the ever-growing scams in the essay writing industry.
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 24, 2012 | #77
Nothing more from HK and her motley crew. As I expected. As soon as she deduced from my replies to her threats that A) I wasn't going to be intimidated and B) she didn't have a case, she has disappeared down the toilet bowl of Bulls**t. Freelance I guess you never got your money either. I never got that offlist email from you, BTW. I've learned my lesson and will not be darkening the essay door again. It is not worth the hassle. I have yet to find a single, reputable company to work for. If anyone can vouch for one, please do.
stu4  21 | 856 ☆☆   Observer
Feb 24, 2012 | #78
HK admited that her user here is: WRT. That is fact.

And she is one the most REPUTABLE and UNBIASED member here. Why you and FreelanceStyler abuse her and tell untrue stories?? WritersBeware said on many occasion that she is the reputable and unbiased member here and the close associates of him. So what is your problem exacly? Why you guys libel the innocent? Shame on you and your dirty tactic!

EW_writer and I have both acknowledged in the past that the following members are reputable and unbiased:

WRT
freelancewriter
pheelyks
AsianWriter
Lavinia

About "Trade" A Movie- Was I right? No comment Needed from Phyleeks!!!
OP Perry Gamsby  2 | 62  
Feb 24, 2012 | #79
Stu4, you have to be a user of essay services, surely you are not a writer of them? How naive are you? Of course Hala will say she is the most reputable here etc. She is lying. As for Writers Beware, who is that? Is that Hala? Hala's best friend? Or perhaps when WB wrote that she honestly believed it to be true and at the time of writing it had no reason to doubt it. I previously thought Hala was reputable and a good and honest person. Subsequent experience has proven me mistaken so quoting any comment I may have made previously that is contradictory to my present opinion is pointless. Same with what you quoted. Times change, things happen, people change.

Stu4, no one has abused her. Freelance and I have merely related our true experiences, both of us can back up our posts with documentary evidence, by the way. What is your agenda in posting this?
FreelanceWriter  6 | 3089   ☆☆☆   Freelance Writer
Mar 14, 2012 | #80
Freelance I guess you never got your money either.

Nope. Unbelievably, she did start calling me again and emailing more promises after complaining about what I wrote here and saying none of this is "for public consumption."

Just a few more entertaining bits of nonsense from this wealthy professional globe trotter:

She's supposedly been in NYC for almost a month now...in a luxury Trump penthouse apartment.
The "chauffer" got the money from the bank but then it was unavailable again because it was "in the safe."
Still has no idea what street this "Trump building" is on or what the address is...after being there for a month in the penthouse her family owns.

No idea what her local phone # is even though I told her to just dial 1-800-444-4444 to get her number automatically from any NYC phone.

Since then, she couldn't pay me because she was bed-ridden for 2 weeks after her "sinus surgery."
No idea what hospital she had the surgey in.
Hasn't left her apartment all this time...she has "people" with her who just bring her junk food. (I asked how she eats.)

She didn't want to give me her "chauffer's" phone # or to give him mine even with my permission. She said she'd have to give him her phone to press redial to reach me on her "locked" phone because my number is "none of his concern." He never showed up. I know, shocking.

Since I told her I'd just come get my money in person and only need her street address, she's adopted the same exact pattern of excuses ("first thing tomorrow," "I'm sleeping," "I'm in the middle of a paragraph, you know how that is," etc.) that she relied on to avoid giving me those mysterious "verified codes" for that superdupersecretsecure "Category 4" Money Gram transaction that Money Gram's representatives said doesn't exist.

Of course, most of this nonsense is preserved on tape in case I'm ever challeneged about it and I'll just post some audio files for everybody's amusement.

My last email to her:

"Hala, the time has come to either give me your address and local phone # as promised many many times so that I can pick up my money or just finally admit that you're really nowhere near NYC and that you have absolutely no intention to pay me another dime.

No point to verbal reassurances...actions speak louder than words. You're not in the middle of a paragraph, you're not sleeping, and you're not "not reading" this either. If you're in NYC, there's no plausible explanation for any of this. To anybody of your purported means and professional success, what you owe me is pocket change and nothing worth all these emails and phone calls.

If you're really in NYC, you could have dialed 1-800-444-4444 and given me your local number in 30 seconds...less time than it took to email response like "does that work for cell phones?"...you supposedly have a round-the-clock "chauffer" available to you...who's never available. I've given you a car service that knows exactly where I live 1-212-923-1111 and offered to pay your round trip fare from my money...and you've supposedly been in NYC for almost a month in a luxury apartment your family "built" on a Trump building with no idea what street you're on or what hospital you had surgery in. You could just step 10 feet outside your building and hop into one of the 20 yellow cabs that passes every few minutes and give the driver my address...if you are really in NYC

Enough with the nonsense already. Pay me or just admit the obvious truth that you need my money more than I do, that you've never set foot in any Trump property in NYC or you'd know how ridiculous it is to say anybody built a penthouse on top of one, you've never even met a "chauffer", but you enjoy this stupid game for some inexplicable reason to any normal person. You're really in some shack in Egypt next to an old TV with a wire hanger for an antenna and you have some need to pretend to be something you dream of being to a stranger you don't know except as somone on a long list of people you've ripped off in a small-time fraudulent operation. Let's be done with this nonsense already instead of playing this game.

And please don't bother pretending that you had any intention to pay me today before this email unless you want to prove to me that you're in NYC by calling me to tell me that from a 212 number. any other response besides your address or a call from 212 will do nothing but confirm my image of you and your wire hanger TV antenna using this game to feel better about yourself and your life. At least know that nobody really believes Any part of the image that you think you're presenting to the world of people who don't know you personally. I know exactly what you are...and what you're not, except in some fantasy life you've invented to keep a lousy $500 or $1000 that you need desperately."

Needless to say, I'm not expecting any kind of response other than her supposed taking such offense that she's "now" decided not to pay me after all.




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