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This story is a true story that happened to me, and there are no exaggerations or truth-bendings. It is completely true. Date of Entry: 8/25/06

Before reading this story, if you haven't read the previous one, I suggest you do. It is located here. Now, this event actually happened while I was posting for Eddie, and we were still friends. A little while before, I can't remember if I did this job while I was posting for Eddie or if I finished it before I started with him... but it doesn't matter. The forum I was working for: MegaCashForum, which I will hereby call MCF. A friend who was working with MegaCashForum for advertising introduced me to the admin, who said he would like to pay me to do some posting. I don't remember the rate I was going at, or how many posts I was supposed to make, but I do remember I was to be paid $25. So, I did the posts, it was all good, and I finished. So, I asked him to pay, and he said he would. However, he never did, NEVER. The thing was, I maintained contact with him for like two months after I finished the job.

We talked a lot, and occasionally I would throw in the "when will you pay me?" and he'd say "I'll pay you after I do this" or "I'll pay you tomorrow." Of course he never did. Being the trusting person I am, I still expected him to pay, and I was only slightly irritated with him. But then the big thing happened that really made me mad at him: He got my Stormpay account deleted. I had signed up for it just so I could do Stormclix, which pays you between $0.01 and $5 (mostly $0.01 to $0.10, but mostly just $0.01 and $0.02). I had been doing it for a week, and was almost at $5, at which I could withdraw. I was one day away from getting that $5, which I had planned to convert into quarters and save them for when I would need to use quarters. One day away. Then MCF (that's what I call him) IMs me saying he desperately needs to use my Stormpay account. He was receiving an exchange and his Stormpay account "wasn't working". He said he was going to get like $280 or something and he'd let me keep $40. He was going to use the remaining money of the exchange to advertise the forum (MegaCashForum). So, he sent over the money, but something messed up and I had to give him a secret passphrase (not the password, something different) along with the password for him to get in. So I had like $250 (a lot is taken from Stormpay's fees, 6.9% + $0.60, that's BS), and he couldn't get in. I could have said "Ha ha, mine now" but I found the passphrase and he got in. Even if I had chosen to keep it, I wouldn't have been able to withdraw it, due to the impending deletion I didn't know of. So, he bought a bunch of advertising credits, and advertised MegaCashForum a lot. The next day, I got an email from Stormpay saying exchanges were against their TOS, and they were suspending my account. I was very angry, because I had lost all the money I had from Stormclix, and my whole Stormpay account was gone. To this day, if I try to log in, it says "We're sorry, your account is SUSPENDED." I talked to MCF about it, and he said he would try to get it fixed, but I don't think he did a damn thing. Also, I think he knew that exchanges were illegal, and he was using my account instead of his just so he could get some advertising in before the account was deleted. Eventually, I started to realize he was a scammer (in fact, it was months later before I realized I was not his only victim, not his only victim at all...), and I started a chat with him, me, and Eddie (we were friends at the time and I was still working for him). Eddie seemed to know more about MCF then I did, and he was accusing him of using a fake name, a lot of stuff. I was just kind of watching. I think MCF ended up banning me shortly after that, because I never spoke to him again.

Soon after the banning, the Eddie incident happened, and another thing (which I shall tell in my next story), and I thought that I was never be rewarded by Karma for what MCF had done to me. It was months before I found a thread on SitePoint.com (while searching megacashforum on Google to see what other people thought of it), and found out MCF had sold the forum! I PMed the buyer, telling him he shouldn't have bought it, and I told him what happened to me. He said that after he bought it, he found out the guy was a scammer. Well, me and him became friends, and he gave me some jobs to do. I was skeptical at first, but I did it anyway, and he was legit. I made well over $100 from him, and I still do occasional work for him to this day.