Unity3D Scamming decreases, on the mend.

 This blog is pleased to report that, scams on the Unity3D community is on a mend, with, customers being less stupid.

Is it worth trading your career for years of regret?

Some advice for those looking to make games:

1) Look for the freelancer's business permit. This is an easy give-away. All of the scammers on this don't have any. Even after 5 years, still nothing.


2) Look for the freelancer's portfolio. Another easy give-away. All the scammers on this, don't have any. Some of them are banned of Art Station, Sketchfab for putting models on their portfolio, that they don't own. 

3) Look for their track record and past history. Do they have problems, or are they constantly trolling the Unity forums looking for victims?

4) Stalking and harassment. What is the troll or scammer doing? Are they harassing their victims, telling them to shut-up, or constantly posting slander about them?

For some people, like (names redacted) some of them have been scamming from since 2011. Is it worth 10 years of their career progression to constantly scam and scam Unity3d?

Some of them are on a mend, they refunded their customers, their names were taken off this blog.

Some of them, became worse and worse, constantly harassing their customers, constantly finding new bait or suckers.

 

Crappy Assets

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/disastercake/status/973237920105750531

We're back!

Q. Does this blog harass others?

A. Obviously not. This blog is self-policing. It removed several developers and artists, who reformed and gave back money back to those who were wronged.


We have received your appeal regarding your blog http://unity3d-scammers.blogspot.com/. Upon further review we have determined that your blog was mistakenly marked as [redacted], as such, we have reinstated your blog.

For the individuals mentioned, they harass others to no end -

• before this blog came out with evidences, (redacted)
• The Truebones truth blog documents certain alts falsely clicking on report video, report blog for no reason, harassing others non-stop for nearly four years. Civil action, police action from multiple individuals were made.

This blog serves to call into attention not to entertain them:

• the artists mentioned on this blog - they have no portfolio and tricking others of their money.
• since these artists are unskilled, they cause great anguish to those who employ or solicit their services. They never refund, or their customers get trolled.

Compare that to commercial blogs which lists down frauds never get taken down (Example - Sinclair ZX Vega+ funding)

Q. Does this blog make harassment for others? 

A. This blog is used by Autodesk, Adobe to go after certain artists who employ artists and developers and don't pay salaries and using computers loaded with unlicensed software, or resell parts of Autodesk, Adobe intellectual property (See Truebones). Thus, taking this blog down removes evidences for Adobe, Autodesk.

Various companies whose intellectual properties were infringed, can see their IP stolen, and who committed it. So yeah, this blog is cited by various lawsuits as evidences.


This blog is also cited by Disney, Pixar, Warner Brothers and many others (Blue Estate Games), Korean game companies in their lawsuits. So this blog is a source of evidence of misdeeds done by certain artists and developers.

Q. Does this blog libel others? 

A. Ask the dozens of customers who contacted 'artists' got featured on this blog. The insults, slurs, harassment they received for years and years -- is a tiny fraction of this blog's contents.


You can't sue others for stating or publishing the truth. In certain cases, hyperlinks to the abusive texts stated by these tricksters and con-artists are shown.

So go ahead - sue. These scammers cannot sue if it's true -- and this blog is careful to show evidences.

Second Year Anniversary, Get out of Unity3d Scammers Jail (Updated)

Second Year Anniversary

This blog celebrates it's second year anniversary. It has done much work to combat fraud, and bring spotlights to certain no-portfolio artists who prey on unsuspecting customers.

Combat Fraud

People know about certain no-portfolio artists. Why don't you draw? Do you want to continue dishonesty?

Will I get my name on this blog if I've done something illegal?

You won't get your name on this blog, unless you are reported many times on the Unity forums.

How do I get my name off this blog?

See below - "shown remorse and have compensated their victims".

Name Removals

There is no longer any reason to post their names and links of their deeds, and hence, removed.


We have removed GM, CT, SPJ, JR, MS, BR, SL.


Also removed is TH, MY and two games. Those two games are dated 2012 and are covered in main-stream-media. There are hundreds of angry comments about those two games.


The above artists have shown remorse and have compensated their victims.

Michaelw352 former Unreal Moderator, part II

Continued from the Original article


Michaelw352, has been going on rampage, harassing members of the Unreal forum. Then he fell from grace.

The UnrealEngine forums admins know it, that Michael has been making a game "Horizon" or Evil Horizon with Crusade Studio, formerly Prion-Games, Hidden-Blade, Eclision or whatever fake-game studio name he wants to call it (see this lengthy post).


Michaelw352 has been terrorizing other artists, asking them work for free (source), and if they don't, he would put them on the Unreal scam-list, until the Unreal moderators stepped in and remove his moderation status.


Many of his untrue, slander-posts were removed (formerly 1000+, to 800+, then 400+, then 300+, then 200+, then 100+, previously 67, previously 56, now 43). How low will Michael's defamatory-posts-count go?




So Michaelw352, after so many years,

• Where is your portfolio? Why are you asking artists to work for free, when you have no portfolio?

• Why do you have fake LinkedIn profile where you worked 10 years, when you graduated from college 2 years ago? If you worked 10+ years, why are there no games, no apps to show for it?

• Why contact employers of the artists you screwed over, warning them, when Michaelw352 has no portfolio. What right do you have to contact them?
  
  
  This blog doesn't go around contacting employers of those artists - for the very reason that those employers, are hiring junior and interns, in physical locations, NOT, remote.
  
  
  AND, this blog removes remorseful artists, those that have compensated their victims.

Michaelw352, do yourself a favor... STOP screwing artists over, learn to draw, model instead.


Asking for free concept art, free models and no longer an Unreal moderator... then threaten what?


This blog got tip-offs from several annoyed artists of harassment from Michael -


Please show them this page-link and let your employer know, that some no-portfolio artists is asking for work-for-free shit, and for some unfortunate artists, despite the fact that 4+ years have passed, contacting employers of those artists -- for incidents that happened in 2013 (now it is 2018) asking for them to be removed from their positions...


Michael, download Blender, LEARN it. get GIMP and if you have some money, like $20 a month, get Photoshop. If you can get $20 bux, use it to pay for your Photoshop subscription, and get yourself a Wacom tablet too.


What ****** this Micahel is, especially now 4+ years have passed since the original incidents happened in 2013, 2014 and the other artists have portfolios, things to show, while Michael has none.

Livenda Labs - Beware

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/livenda-labs-ctaa-htc-vive-beware.429509/

A small update on how things are going with Livenda...

Althoug they claim on their website that "all updates are FREE and regular", I have never once received any single update after the original purchase.

Recently they advertised via e-mail "upgrade from V2.5 to V3 $60". Well I purchased that update.

And guess what I received... Absolutely nothing. Not download links, nothing. And their customer support e-mail remains totally silent. At least PayPal returned my money...

An update again - 

Did anyone actually get a 3.0 upgrade link after purchase. Looking for some kind of hope.

Asset Store Ripoff

This thread is meant to enlighten the folks who can fall prey to frauds on the asset store and a clear indication of why you must research as much as possible before you buy an asset.

Also a strong suggeston to not rely on assets with facebook support and no forum thread.

I give this advice to everyone I know already, but this time I failed to practice what I preach because I was too excited about the asset.

You could say I asked for it and I agree with you.
The intention of this post is not to flame but to educate. 

Here's the forum thread which provides the free project from @High_Noon with his shader
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/guilty-gear-xrd-shader-test.448557/

Here's the asset store link
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/92792

When I downloaded the project the first thing I immediately did was to open up the shader code because I felt a certain amount of familiarity with the inspector parameter names on the shader.


For more details:
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/fraud-an-asset-store-publisher-selling-copied-code-off-of-a-forums-free-project.485914/

Scam Market-place: gamegorillaz.com

This scam market-place does not pay its developers. They take your money, pirate the source-codes and assets, claim to advertise to market for you, and give you nothing.


https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/marketplace-owners-doesnt-want-to-pay-for-developers-need-help.471956/

"We are small team, who are mostly working on projects that could help for other developers to create their own projects. Before two months, we've received a letter where marketplace owners(Game Gorillaz) said that the payments will be delayed due to some kind of country problems. We said it is alright and we will wait for a respond, but after two months we still didn't got any answers from them. They said that all payments will be credited to developers accounts until 15th of March, but we haven't got any money. Now we think that they just appropriated our orders and tried to delay all our requests. We think that we're not alone and there is way more developers who didn't get they payments. So we would like to share this message and let everybody know that not every marketplace is good for developers who want to earn some extra money. Still, we tried to contact owners, but we didn't get any response. We have all orders with all customers who bought our projects. So, we would like to know is there any institutions which could help us to solve this problem, because were are thinking that there are tons of developers who are waiting their payments and can't get any response from owners."

Do not hire Qas Rum

https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/do-not-hire-collaborate-with-qas-rum.367975/


Something that constitutes a horror story happened to my team and I recently.
A little while back, we found somebody on the Unity collaboration forums named "Qas Rum." He Skyped me, interested in joining our team for a game abbreviated "SCP!". We were excited to have a new programmer on our team! Then, a few days ago, something horrific happened.
Read the conversation here.
TL;DR he is stealing the code from our project and using it for his own game. He said he wouldn't use my code, but he's going to "rewrite it the way it is exactly."

Now, I regret saying that I hoped his project failed, but I was livid at that point. He was being immature and completely, well, crappy about this whole situation.

Since he never emailed us or replied to the forum post, I only have his Skype contact info. His username is "vibee25"

If you ever meet someone with this Skype name, or the name "Qas Rum," run. They are not worth it.

1 year anniversary

This blog celebrates it's 1 year anniversary.


During this time, it has given notice to many scammers.

You can run but you can't hide.

These scammers have no integrity. After taking money, they think they can scam another victim. Now their deeds are shown publicly.