Scam Report - I hired a Bangladeshi freelancer from freelancer.com to do a job for me and he scammed me. His name is Md Abu Taleb aka Engar Jahed with the freelancer handle "engrjahed" and he works as Product Development Senior Assistant Manager at Banglalink Digital Communications LTD. (Banglalink) Bangladesh.

The fellow designed a number of twilio apps for me, and I paid him completely before I tested them all. I paid Md Abu Taleb aka Engr Jahed over a thousand dollars altogether I believe. What I got are a bunch of broken twilio apps. He conned me into believing he would fix each issue, and he assured me would continue to support what he had done until it was complete if I paid him upfront. So, I paid him and released the money before it was tested fully.

I also left him glowing reviews on his freelancer.com profile page (http://www.freelancer.com/u/engrjahed.html) before I tested. Shortly after he asked me if he could resell the apps I paid him to build, of course I told him No way!, it's all proprietary. I paid him for it, it belongs to me, they are my apps. Since then, he refused to answer Skype, email, or reply to my messages on freelancer.com. Yet he spammed me with linked in urls the other day. I would like his name to be up in Google attached to the scam he pulled on me. I want Md Abu Taleb to understand that freelancer's review system is not my only recourse.

I finally got a reply by email from him letting me know he is sorry for the late reply, six months late in fact, and that he is too busy to continue with this project. He was dishonest and lied to me and said everything was fully tested and working, but it was not. I should know, I’m the tester here, they are my apps, and I didn’t do it until after I paid him. I was buying, and I didn’t want to make him wait. So I paid him with his assurance, he would fix any deficiencies in our agreed upon scope of the work but he unethically didn’t keep his promises and defrauded me.

If you should come upon "engrjahed" aka Md Abu Taleb aka Jahed, think twice before you hire him. He took me for a thousand dollars in April 2013 and he might do the same thing to you.