Brandon Sheley Scams vBulletinSetup Member
It appears as if the Brandon Sheley scams have been going on a while now. In January of 2009 at a popular scam reporting site called Scam.com a member with the handle of hk554 reports on sending Brandon Sheley $300 but getting nothing in return other than a glimpse of his progress. Another previous forum member who’s account apparently disappeared without a trace after the scam. It appears this scam occurred during November of 2008!!!
The full scam report is below:
I was a long time member at the site vBulletin Setup. When I first started going there, everything was decent the owner Brandon Shelly was helpful and courteous to us members. Then everything started to go bad.
I logged in one day and all my helpful posts had been removed resulting in a loss of back links and revenue, but I wasn’t banned or limited on the forums just my posts gone like that.
I then hired the owner to do some work on my site, upgrade vBulletin, move it to a new location and server optimise my settings and install a few modifications.
All this was suppose to be done between Nov 1st and Nov 15th, during this time I sent a 300 deposit for the work to be completed, which was approx half of what we agreed. After 7 days with nothing getting done i was getting nervous and he said that he was working on everything on a private server, so I said okay thats fine and he showed me the work.
I’ve attempted to contact him 4 times after that with no luck, and no refund has been issued. It appears I’m out of my money and time lost for this project.
I have screen shots of conversations over MSN and private messages as well as my receipt for payment. be careful when hiring this guy for your service.
Mzavier
Reno, Nevada
U.S.A.
As you can see, more claims from former vBulletinSetup forum members where their forum account is mysteriously gone after sending payment and not being given the chance to post about their experience against Brandon Sheley
Hey Dave,
Thanks for starting this site, and thanks for contacting me about using my story. I’ve been trying to tell as many people as I can about how Brandon Sheley scammed me by taking money to optimise my site but never did.
hope this scum bag burns.
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