Comments on: Mike Smith | Blog Theme Machine | Wordpress Scammers

By: Alex D.

Alex D. — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:31:35 +0000

Well, guys, it is now 2010 and this moron still continues to scam people unpunished.
I was just scammed for $200. so everyone be aware that this Mike Smith is an absolute 100% scammer and these are his sites:
http://www.madebyguerrilla.com/
http://www.giantthemes.com/
http://blogthememachine.com/
probably few more…
File claims with Paypal and chargebacks with your credit card company

I will be happy to provide any details to whoever would like. I will also be submitting all I know about this moron to every where I can, police, online FBI department, his local police department in Knowxville TN. Everybody do the same and lets hope he ends up in jail

By: Mike Smith Hunter

Mike Smith Hunter — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:35:53 +0000

Jason or anybody else…..Can you give me any contact details that you may have for our Mike?

Is that his real name? If not what is it?
Street address
Home Town
School/s
Relatives
Other companies that he may work for or use as a front?

I Just want to get to the bottom of all this and expose this thief for who he really is!

By: Matt Goyer

Matt Goyer — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:50:05 +0000

I wish I had thought to Google Mike Smith and Blog Theme Machine / Made By Guerilla in order to find this site before sending him $800!

Like many of you he’s sent me a theme that didn’t work at all when installed on the latest version of Wordpress and hasn’t responded to any of my emails asking what’s up.

If anyone has any advice on recovering money’s paid (via PayPal) I’d love to hear from you. I tried dispute resolution but I’m a week or two too late. I’ll try calling tomorrow as I have a business account.

By: Justin Knowles

Justin Knowles — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:12:00 +0000

Since we posted our comment, Mike has come through 100% and provided what we were asking for.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:29:43 +0000

@Jorge,

You can contact PayPal from within your account, by clicking contact at the top right corner. If you have a business account, you can contact them through that link to call them.

I hope this helps.

By: Jorge Random

Jorge Random — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:21:45 +0000

Justin and Jason. Mike Smith made my emotional and financial life a living nightmare and wasted my time as owner of the company and my staff’s time last October and November where we dedicated 2 months of time and wages to upload content for 2 of our wesbites and a new blog, needless to say during the time we would nto hear from him for 2-3 weeks at a time and finally late November he was nowhere to eb found to finish the projects. I do admit I was asking for some additiosn and changes to the work he did but was not pushy and these were all things that was up front with and detailed when I presented the projects. I am a small business and all that time and wages added up to over $4000 and opportunity cost that I have still not had time or $$$ to hire someone else till now who is a real live person and firned where i live as last time the online option and not a real person did not work.

Please tell me who at paypal and email address or phone # to talk to and will report him ASAP

Thanks

By: Justin Knowles

Justin Knowles — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:51:46 +0000

MIke Smith is at it again with Made by Guerrilla (http://www.madebyguerrilla.com/) — we’ve paid $1000 for a premium theme for one of our projects and have little to speak for it.

Mike Smith’s scamming will end soon after our attorney’s are done with him.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:58:41 +0000

The only way to get this idiot’s account shut down, is by people actually complaining directly to PayPal.

When I last talked to PayPal, they said that they had flagged his account and were watching him.

Spend 5 minutes talking or emailing PayPal about this cretin, because the more that do, in a short space of time, will get him shut down. If he has no PayPal account, it will certainly make things difficult for this guy.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:59:32 +0000

PEOPLE BEWARE! He brings you in by answering emails fast and then soon as he gets paid he disappears.

Mike Smith is for sure a scammer. He did the same thing to me as he did to Maxx. You think your safe with Paypal but your not. I don’t see why Paypal hasn’t shut down this jerks account down. Also he’s trying to rebrand as Made by Guerrilla now. I think we should all work together on getting this guy shut down.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:11:59 +0000

This bottom-feeder (Mike Smith) also scammed me! PayPal were useless in the whole affair. In the dispute, they asked him for tracking details, which he responded, “intangible product”! He has obviously done this many times before!!

Well, PayPal denied my claim, quoting, “intangible product” as they do not cover buyer or seller protection for intangible products. Surprise, surprise! What a waste of time.

Mike Smith has a long history of scamming people and I have notified PayPal of this germ’s history, providing them with links to posts like this. I will not stop until I have his PayPal account shut down.

Blogthememachine.com and Mike Smith need to be shut down to stop people falling into his web of deceit and scams.