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Originally Posted by Dean C

But why take the risk? It takes 10minutes to send emails to 3 references. That's 10 minutes well spent in my opinion.

Maybe u never read my post above - i checked out the first scammer and he seemed ok.He showed me jobs he had done and even showed me his Professional website where he takes orders from.I was still ripped off.So even checking people does not mean u are 100% safe.Also many coders on here proberly cannot provide 3 refs but that dont mean they will rip u off as ive hired quite a few and besides these 2 scammers the rest where fine.
And it still not solve the problem of what we do after we have been scammed - you can sprout all day about checking people out but its to late once they got your money and wont answer your pms even when u know they are online and just ignoring you.
A feedback system is needed and that way we wont have to be Inspector Morse checking everyone out.Imagine if Ebay told its members to check other people out by asking people if they where cosher before buying off them - you`d laugh at them.They implemented a system that was fair to all users (both sides) yet for some weird reason vb.org does`nt feel inclined to want to offer one here.