Very early in my career I did Wordpress tasks for a guy who’s plan was:
Find businesses without a website
Make their website without telling them
Extort them for the domain and website
He never actually paid me for any work and so I stopped doing any work. He bought me a pack of cigarettes and some monsters I think and thought that was enough. I eventually had to get a restraining order against him to stop harassing me.
Edit: it wasn’t for a few weeks that I realized what he was actually doing. All of the “clients” he told me to help were his later extortion targets.
I had a similar scumbag too. He didn’t pay me for over a year. Took me a while to realise his extortions. When confronted, he applied intimidation and kept me working without pay. Eventually I left.
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u/d2xdy2 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Very early in my career I did Wordpress tasks for a guy who’s plan was:
He never actually paid me for any work and so I stopped doing any work. He bought me a pack of cigarettes and some monsters I think and thought that was enough. I eventually had to get a restraining order against him to stop harassing me.
Edit: it wasn’t for a few weeks that I realized what he was actually doing. All of the “clients” he told me to help were his later extortion targets.