Stephen Carnes contacted me about transcribing 5 doctoral interviews for him. After giving him good instructions for several upload methods for his audio, he still could not get his audio uploaded. Rather than just leave him on his own even after he was rude becuase he couldn't get the files uploaded, I provided him with a temporary password to my file sending account for him to transfer his files to us for processing. I emailed him the information to him and he replied back saying he would try that method.
I then received an email back from him saying that he couldn't do the transcripts at this time, which was no big deal. I was notified later by my file sending company that he had logged in and used my account to send files to another company for transcribing.
Anyone dealing with this man beware, he will get information from you to illegally use for his own purposes and will ignore any emails or questions from you. I have found several people around the aurora illinois area with the name Stephen Carnes, including the principal at the Whittier Elementary School in District #87 which I believe to be the same Stephen Carnes I was dealing with.
Anyone transcribing out there should beware this unethical individual.
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