Bad Egg Alert: Richard Rahlston or DBA Devenia

This client was found on oDesk. Though most clients found on oDesk are honest, this client is not.

He did not pay for his week's worth of assignments from myself and then decided to disappear on both email, oDesk and messenger. oDesk suspended his contract because of other complaints and he is under investigation. I believe he takes his work from another content site and then sends it out to collect money on it.

I will be contacting any site that is posting the articles I wrote to let them know they are not paid for and therefore are being used illegally.

Do not work for this client. See contact names and information below to avoid him. He is based out of the United Kingdom. He calls his company "Devenia" on ODesk.com; however is in no association with the company Devenia Ltd. or Devenia.com.

Yahoo Email/Messenger: RichardRahlston@yahoo.com
oDesk ID: Richardrahl
Company Name (listed on oDesk): Devenia



Clients like this give freelancing a bad name. Now I (and my family) will go without that money I spent all week earning and now I will have to make up an entire week's pay somehow through other or new clients. In all my years of freelancing this is the first time a client has skipped out in such a way. Usually after hassling they finally pay, this one just disappears.

BAD EGG ALERT!

American Diversified Publications

685 E. I-10 Service Road

Slidell, LA 70461-5501

Phone: 1 (800) 688-0295

These wonderful people stole an article I published on ezine as well as stole a blog right from this very blog here and reposted it on their site. Not only did they swap out the author name with their own, there is no link or credit to my writing the original article or where they received the article.

I have reported this company to Ezine as well as called an attorney. Copyright infringement is a serious crime and not tolerated.

Not only does this company claim to help people, like freelance writers, to get jobs, but they apparently steal from work-from-home freelance writers as well.