SCAM ALERT!! For those who's looking for job in Phnom Penh, beware of this guy.
SCAM ALERT!! For those who's looking for job in Phnom Penh, beware of this guy.
SCAM ALERT!!
BEWARE OF THIS SCAMMER IN PHNOM PENH!
His name is BEN HUTCHINS from BRISBANE, He's 55 years old (born in 1965.) He claimed that He has been living in Phnom Penh for 15 years or so. As per my knowledge, He lives in the Riverside area in Phnom Penh. But I got info that He just moved out. So, I don't know where He's living now.
So I was looking for a job a year ago and I got a job through friends of friends as a Personal Assistant/Project Manager.
I worked with this Australian guy named BEN HUTCHINS. And he claimed to have a business offering software development service to one of the reputable companies in Cambodia.
At first, everything seemed legit. I started my job, and I have also met His partner/friend which also his client.
I met his partner in his office which he is from a legit company as Ben claimed. So I believed this is a legit job, not a scam.
Months went by and this guy - BEN HUTCHINS started to pay me late more often. In December 2020 before Christmas time, I was expecting my last payment before the holiday.
At this point, He hasn't paid me for my 1-month work done.
He gave me weird excuses, and he kept changing his excuses every time I asked about the updates on my payment situation.
Some of his excuses are:
The client hasn't paid him hence he didn't have the money,
Or the money transferred process has been delayed by the bank,
Or the money transferred has been missing and he tried to solve that,
Or he claimed that he had been trying to take a loan from a bank here and it was still in the process, etc.
I believed in his excuses without any suspicion and kept waiting for my payment.
Then, my boyfriend and some of his friends saw him at a bar in Phnom Penh, having drinks with his friends. While he claimed that he didn't have money.
My boyfriend tried to talk and follow up on my payment with him.
After my boyfriend told me that, I tried to escalate and explain my situation to his partner which happens to be his client and His partner said that he has paid Ben before the holiday started.
Then, I started to get suspicious and ask Ben again what is the status of my payment.
He ignored my messages and calls. Eventually, he replied to me asked to meet at Cheers Bar at the riverside.
We met there, and he told me he didn't like to be approached at the bar by my boyfriend, He even accused my boyfriend of things that he didn't do.
He said He would transfer my money when I finished handover. We agreed on the timeline, and he transferred 1/4 of my payment before the handover started.
I finished the handover and asked him to transfer the rest of my money as agreed. But he ignored my text.
He didn't pick up my calls. I tried to email him and no response too.
At this point, I reported him to his partner. His partner tried to help to communicate my concerns to him, and still, he never responds or replied to any of my texts or calls.
I still gave him chance and kept following up and still waiting for his response to transfer my payment.
Until today, He hasn't transferred my money or respond to my texts & calls, and he unfriended my social media!
At this point, I am so disappointed. My money is gone. I worked hard and didn't even get paid for that.
I have enough so I decided to share this to let him know that I am so disappointed with him and I won't let him out there free scamming other people.
After I did a little digging and research on him, I found out that He is a scammer.
He owed money to several people with the same pattern. He has also been blacklisted at some Bars in Cambodia (not only Phnom Penh).
He even made himself news in Phnom Penh newspaper, Khmer24 articles, and Sun newspaper. (I'm attaching all those articles here.)
He also claimed to have a company called “Hutchins & co” which no longer exists as he is not a registered lawyer
For those people who ever offered a job to work with him or offered something from him, please be cautious and never believed what he says.
He will eventually scam you, and you will fall to his prey.
I can provide screenshots of all the communication between me and Him to prove that I'm not making a false accuse.
For those who have experienced the same thing with him, I will be happy to connect and hear your story. I feel sorry for those who are still working with him without knowing that they will never get money for their hard work. I want to help them to get out of him before it's too late.
So, I am gathering people to help me to share this and make him viral so there won't be other people fall into his scam.
Thank you for reading until the end. I hope you all have a good day.
If you want the screenshots of all my communication with him, please shoot me a message here. I will try to reply to you ASAP.
Below are the links to articles that I found related to him :
1. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/siem-reap ... 3-apr-2009
2. https://khmer440.com/chat_forum/viewtop ... 1&start=15
3. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... -criticism
4. https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-u ... 1b1d23ea0e
5. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5745465/b ... igs-blood/
Thank You.
BEWARE OF THIS SCAMMER IN PHNOM PENH!
His name is BEN HUTCHINS from BRISBANE, He's 55 years old (born in 1965.) He claimed that He has been living in Phnom Penh for 15 years or so. As per my knowledge, He lives in the Riverside area in Phnom Penh. But I got info that He just moved out. So, I don't know where He's living now.
So I was looking for a job a year ago and I got a job through friends of friends as a Personal Assistant/Project Manager.
I worked with this Australian guy named BEN HUTCHINS. And he claimed to have a business offering software development service to one of the reputable companies in Cambodia.
At first, everything seemed legit. I started my job, and I have also met His partner/friend which also his client.
I met his partner in his office which he is from a legit company as Ben claimed. So I believed this is a legit job, not a scam.
Months went by and this guy - BEN HUTCHINS started to pay me late more often. In December 2020 before Christmas time, I was expecting my last payment before the holiday.
At this point, He hasn't paid me for my 1-month work done.
He gave me weird excuses, and he kept changing his excuses every time I asked about the updates on my payment situation.
Some of his excuses are:
The client hasn't paid him hence he didn't have the money,
Or the money transferred process has been delayed by the bank,
Or the money transferred has been missing and he tried to solve that,
Or he claimed that he had been trying to take a loan from a bank here and it was still in the process, etc.
I believed in his excuses without any suspicion and kept waiting for my payment.
Then, my boyfriend and some of his friends saw him at a bar in Phnom Penh, having drinks with his friends. While he claimed that he didn't have money.
My boyfriend tried to talk and follow up on my payment with him.
After my boyfriend told me that, I tried to escalate and explain my situation to his partner which happens to be his client and His partner said that he has paid Ben before the holiday started.
Then, I started to get suspicious and ask Ben again what is the status of my payment.
He ignored my messages and calls. Eventually, he replied to me asked to meet at Cheers Bar at the riverside.
We met there, and he told me he didn't like to be approached at the bar by my boyfriend, He even accused my boyfriend of things that he didn't do.
He said He would transfer my money when I finished handover. We agreed on the timeline, and he transferred 1/4 of my payment before the handover started.
I finished the handover and asked him to transfer the rest of my money as agreed. But he ignored my text.
He didn't pick up my calls. I tried to email him and no response too.
At this point, I reported him to his partner. His partner tried to help to communicate my concerns to him, and still, he never responds or replied to any of my texts or calls.
I still gave him chance and kept following up and still waiting for his response to transfer my payment.
Until today, He hasn't transferred my money or respond to my texts & calls, and he unfriended my social media!
At this point, I am so disappointed. My money is gone. I worked hard and didn't even get paid for that.
I have enough so I decided to share this to let him know that I am so disappointed with him and I won't let him out there free scamming other people.
After I did a little digging and research on him, I found out that He is a scammer.
He owed money to several people with the same pattern. He has also been blacklisted at some Bars in Cambodia (not only Phnom Penh).
He even made himself news in Phnom Penh newspaper, Khmer24 articles, and Sun newspaper. (I'm attaching all those articles here.)
He also claimed to have a company called “Hutchins & co” which no longer exists as he is not a registered lawyer
For those people who ever offered a job to work with him or offered something from him, please be cautious and never believed what he says.
He will eventually scam you, and you will fall to his prey.
I can provide screenshots of all the communication between me and Him to prove that I'm not making a false accuse.
For those who have experienced the same thing with him, I will be happy to connect and hear your story. I feel sorry for those who are still working with him without knowing that they will never get money for their hard work. I want to help them to get out of him before it's too late.
So, I am gathering people to help me to share this and make him viral so there won't be other people fall into his scam.
Thank you for reading until the end. I hope you all have a good day.
If you want the screenshots of all my communication with him, please shoot me a message here. I will try to reply to you ASAP.
Below are the links to articles that I found related to him :
1. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/siem-reap ... 3-apr-2009
2. https://khmer440.com/chat_forum/viewtop ... 1&start=15
3. https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... -criticism
4. https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-u ... 1b1d23ea0e
5. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5745465/b ... igs-blood/
Thank You.
- Srey Bourque
- I've got nothing better to do
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Yes, we want screenshots, please.
Interesting articles in the links . Is Hutchins a failed hovercraft tycoon and fake lawyer?
Interesting articles in the links . Is Hutchins a failed hovercraft tycoon and fake lawyer?
Screenshots, Stat.
Need compensation for reading those boring old links
Need compensation for reading those boring old links
Those links have nothing to do with this Ben guy.
I will upload screenshots shortly.Srey Bourque wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 2:33 pmYes, we want screenshots, please.
Interesting articles in the links . Is Hutchins a failed hovercraft tycoon and fake lawyer?
And about your questions, I am sure it's him since I saw some posts related to hovercraft on his Facebook. And throughout my time worked with him, he mentioned a couple of times that he needed to go on court trials to help a friend. At that time I didn't know anything about these fake lawyer articles. But now, since I found it, I can relate to what he's been doing all this time.
Read all the articles until the end. The articles headlines might not be about him but on the articles clearly mentioned that a western man that claimed to be a lawyer asked for certain amount of money to be paid. The guy even asked his lawyer and his lawyer said the amount that being asked cannot be justified. And I also put a reference to the forum post on khmer440 on the link that I provide, someone found out that it was Ben Hutchins.Not Ben H wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 3:09 pmThose links have nothing to do with this Ben guy.
The other articles on phnom penh post clearly mention his name as well. So the articles are still relevant.
So for you who asked me to upload screenshots, here's the screenshots of my communication with him. You can see on the screenshots, I was in a panic state when I started to get suspicious on him. I tried to be patience and keep following up, I even told and sent him screenshot of my account balance to told him that I really need the money that he's been delayed my payment for months.
- Srey Bourque
- I've got nothing better to do
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I think your side of the screenshots focuses way too much on crying "I'm broke, I NEED the money" and not enough on "You owe the money, here's why."
His side of the screenshots does not make him look good. He seems to be running the classic scammer late payment excuse playbook.
His side of the screenshots does not make him look good. He seems to be running the classic scammer late payment excuse playbook.
Do you have his contact info? I'm looking for work.
I can’t really read those screenshots. Why are they so blurry? Is it the image host?
If you email them to me on [email protected] I can upload them in better quality.
If you email them to me on [email protected] I can upload them in better quality.
Click "Zoom" and they go to full screenAlexandra wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:41 pmI can’t really read those screenshots. Why are they so blurry? Is it the image host?
If you email them to me on [email protected] I can upload them in better quality.
Are you trying get sued by a pretend lawyer?Alexandra wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:41 pmI can’t really read those screenshots. Why are they so blurry? Is it the image host?
If you email them to me on [email protected] I can upload them in better quality.
Ahh, great, thanks. I’ll fix that in a couple hours.lazy feck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 4:48 pmClick "Zoom" and they go to full screen
AVOID this guy. Some friends of mine were trying to start a first class passenger ferry company from Sihanoukville to the islands and he scammed them big time. They lost a LOT of money. The big cat Alum ferry with 1000hp outboards is still for sale in Kampot at a bargain price. This guy is a real scumbag. I'm amazed he is still walking around. Rumor has it he scammed some Russians a few years ago so that's what make me wonder why he is still sucking air. He is suppose to have big contacts in the government, but that's never been proven, but its maybe why he isn't in jail. He had a law firm in Phnom Penh (so he says) and that's now gone. He is a poor excuse for a human being.
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