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Name: Ben (Last Name?)
URL(s): http://foxotic.com | http://virtualkidsbase.com/

My conversation with him:
http://pastebin.com/U5Wm4EkH

Summary:
Ben contacted me offering me a job as a front end developer for his children's website game platform (a ripoff of club penguin) but refuses to cover me legally for compensation before any work is started (no terms of service, contracts of any kind) and wants me to work right away (20 minutes into the conversation). He resorts to telling me I seem to have a bad reputation etc. and gets frustrated because I call him out on his poor business conduction.

His company also has been generating some negativity:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23stopfoxotic&src=typd
http://rile5.com/topic/22661-foxotic-the...ntry277037

tl;dr version:
there is a very good chance this guy will make you work without proper compensation, and will end up scamming you. Be on the look out!
What's the link to his profile hopefully MyBB staff will ban him.

Good luck.
(2013-08-03, 11:54 PM)fizit Wrote: [ -> ]What's the link to his profile hopefully MyBB staff will ban him.

I don't know, he's using Mybb for both his sites forum though so he's here somewhere.
The fact that they have links that are just #comingsoon on their main site still just screams scam Toungue.
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http://community.mybb.com/thread-73615.html