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Old 11-24-2023, 08:15 AM  
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I got SCAMMED too. After I lost few days with them ( few hours per day) they wanted to know how do i work and even what do I search and what example do I use on different social media Net.

I felt used. I shared some of my tips on different SMnet but after few days of asking 100s questions, they told me that they hired someone else as Social Media Manager and They offered a talk about Social media VA.

I knew that they are not good guys so i told them if they want to hire me ok if not do not waste my time. They have total of 3 models that had less then 100 followers per account lolllllllllllll and i knew they are going to fake and they just wanted to learn from us and not to do a business.

I didn't know that someone from United Kingdom will scam and be so unserious.

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The moderators should check about adding a rule on this section and not allow to post theads newbie accounts. It might be good to ban this account and company so they do not scam someone else

Same here buddy, literally the same.

Exactly what happened to me, as I explained everything in their post - https://gfy.com/gfy-jobs-and-service...-media-va.html

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Hi,


Thank you for your support. They promised me they will sort out things for us, by Tuesday noon. But when the time came, they were avoiding to close up the deal again. We spent like 20 hours of work total, which posting itself was some 12 hours, the rest was consulting and helping them with sorting out the work flow - which they got for free. Now, they are calling us "rude", buuut apologizing for their lack of professionalism and lack of communication.

Anyway, we got burned before, this was literally "peanuts", but for someone who calls themselves a "good people" and "serious, legit agency", they proved totally opposite.

We applied through this post - https://gfy.com/gfy-jobs-and-service...k-manager.html and when I explained them that they are not looking for Social Media Manager, but for Social Media Virtual Assistant instead, they have posted these two posts:

https://gfy.com/gfy-jobs-and-service...assistant.html

https://gfy.com/gfy-jobs-and-service...-media-va.html


Luckily, we stopped providing services until they sort us out current situation, where we really provided some actual and active posting work, but because the lack of their organization and "know how", they took almost all advices from us, on how should they run things, which type of software and tools can ease the work, etc. Now, they are refusing to pay this pocket money amount, saying work provided was not enough and they simply can not pay for consulting, lol. I mean it's fine, good thing we didn't spend more time on this, just hopefully other GFY members won't get burned too.

I just explained that what they did is actually not business polite and they don't have decency and respect towards everything we brought to the table. As you said, they sucked up all the information and advices, but I guess they are not the first and last "leech" type of business and organization (agency). Also, there's not much we can do, because everything was more an "oral agreement", when I asked about contract, they said "it's not necessary". So, all in all, lesson learned.

Again, thank you for your support, you're very kind and we appreciate it!

Have a great day and week ahead.


Kind regards,
Aaron, Galaxy Media

I just hope GFY Admins will take some measures, since I'm not the only one and good thing you guys stepped up and shared your experience with them. Thank you!

I also hope nobody else will get scammed and burned.

Unfortunately, they can always sign up as another "Legit OF Management UK Agency", but hopefully, they will be recognized at the right time in very beginning.
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