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Creative Mouse - Joel Mottinger - Claire Mottinger
Ripoff fraud scam web development embezzlement theft theif stealing

We hired Joel Mottinger of Creative Mouse to develop a website for us. The scope of the work was outlined by us on a geekbidder.com and Creative Mouse bid on the project. A contract was signed stating that there would be 3 American Developers in Portland would be working on this project. We were paying roughly $75 per man hour.

We paid Creative mouse several thousand up front to get started on this project. As goals were met we continued to pay more money to creative mouse. A few months into the project it came to our attention that the project was outsourced to a company in India.

As the project was nearing completion the Indian development team stopped working. When we contacted them as to why the project had stopped they told us that Creative Mouse hadn't paid them yet. Creative Mouse refused to pay the money to the development team or to return the money to us.

We had to pay the Indian development team directly to get the source code for our website.

We came to find out that shortly after our contract was signed, Creative Mouse filled for bankruptcy but failed to tell us. Creative Mouse committed fraud by falsly portraying themselves as a company with over 50 employees.

Creative Mouse committed embezzlement by not paying the money to the Indian development team, but instead pocketing nearly 0 of the money that was paid to them. Creative Mouse committed theft by taking our money and not providing the services we paid for.

We have a list of several other victims of Joel Mottinger that cross several state lines, including the Indian development team that crosses national borders. We have filled a report with the Sherrif's department in Multnomah CO, Oregon because they were the only one that would take a report. No other agency would recognize this as a criminal report because they couldn't look past the breach of contract civil matter.

We are a start up company that is now out of over $28,000. Not the easiest thing to recover from. Other victims (including a church organization) claim losses of $2,000 - $20,000 each.


Offender: Creative Mouse - Joel Mottinger - Claire Mottinger

Country: USA   State: Oregon   City: Portland
Address: 7327 SW Barnes Rd, Suite 523
Phone: 8666644343

Category: Internet & Web

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