I was looking for freelance video jobs online and was given a web address from my school career advisor. The site was not involved so I will not include it. I found a freelance transcription job through the site and job connected with Erin Bonneau of Digital Boats Media on March 13th.
The original agreement was to transcribe DVDs every so often through out the year.instead of DVDs she sent me digital files. I was a bit confused, but did them anyway and submitted an invoice on March 27th. It took her a week to get back to me after that at which point she sent me the DVDs.
Through out the process her emails got to the point of excessive. Emailing me between 5 and 10 times a day asking roughly the same questions. At this point I had been asking for payment almost everyday for 3 weeks with no response.
After the 5th time she asked for my phone number "To check in" and didn't call I asked if she read my emails or if she just deletes them. She called me that day and left a message saying "we're not a match and I should send the DVDs back". I called her back and all I got was a robot voice asking me to buy a voice mail box.
I kept asking for payment from both of these jobs and never got a response. I finally got a response from her "Bookkeeper" who only goes by Bookkeeper I never got a name. She told me that a check was sent on April 21st. Which I did receive on April 23rd. When I got that check I emailed asking for the money for the digital files.
I emailed her and the bookkeeper multiple times a day asking for the money she owes me for the digital files. She contacted me on April 28th saying "sorry for the delay". I gave her a week and started emailing her again. Stopping at the beginning of June, which is when I told her I would be reporting her to her clients and scam reporting site. She responded July 7th and 8th saying "she had no idea this wasn't paid". It's been 2 weeks and the only response I've gotten was to an email from April 19th.
After some research I found she had done this to multiple people at the same time I was going though it.
This has happened to 4 other people that I have found.
I have every email she's every written me as proof of her running me in circles.
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