Hi All, I see that Juan Miguel Yupangco also posts on this website and other forums to attract customers for programming project. You can see one of his posts at http://www.webmaster-talk.com/other...-mysql-programmer-delivers-quick-quality.html This guy is not a programmer. He is a starving scammer. He has cheated me for $5000 through getacoder.com. Something he will deliver to you will be nothing but a bunch of useless files with tones of errors and technical problems. He will not give you any valid address and phone number because he doesn't want you to be able to sue him. I have been looking for his physical address to sue him in the small claim court but was unsuccessful so far. If you want to make sure about what I am saying, just take a look at the list of the websites that he claims are done by him. For example, you can see the www.lavalife.com among them. This guy thinks that people are stupid. LavaLife is a dating website created and managed by Microsoft. How this guy can be its programmer? It is the same with other websites he has listed like http://www.sportsline.com/ , ... . Of course he has succeeded to cheat some people like me so far. I really was not experienced enough and didn't know how to choose a coder. His website is www.vertigolabs.com but he has created another website at www.jayemmedia.com and keeps on working as "Jayem Media" company. His full name is Juan Miguel Yupangco. You can also see his clients feedbacks at http://www.getacoder.com/users/oldschool/oldschool_feedback.htm He is Filipino but is born and lives in Canada. Avoid this guy.
He's a new member here... thanks for the heads up. However people will need to do their own due diligence and take an independant stance. old_school getacoder was down btw.
He is a disgrace to our race, anyways, I know Yupangcos are Filipinos and I never knew he would do that
i visited his website http://www.jayemmedia.com/about and it loaded something Loaded suite dispatch.cgi Started Finished in 0.000122 seconds. is this a virus or something????
There are always 2 sides of the story. I will defend myself because he tried suing me for web development that was fully working, but he wanted more modifications. These modfications were not part of the CONTRACT we had signed. In addition, he paid me over 5000 USD through www.getacoder.com because we both agreed that all the project I had delivered was perfect. If it was not what he wanted, then why did he give me the full sum of 5000 USD? He wanted more modfications to be developed on my end for FREE. I said no because it was not part of the contract we had signed via getacoder.com Since her had not left a feedback rating on getacoder.com, he gave me bad reviews on getacoder to destroy my reputation. Look at the dates when I submitted the project, and the date he left feedback for me. They are months apart. He threatened to sue me but I had/have 2 lawyers ready to counter-sue him in Toronto Canada, which I told him. He never went through to sue me because I had Getacoder documentations to prove my claim. He is Iranian and wants his money back because he wants more modifications that was not part of an agreement. He did not want to pay extra for more work I would have to do. He lied on getacoder.com with reviews as explained above. If an individual wants to make it a public issue, let it be known, but do not lie. Jayem Media is not a company I own, and I still run www.vertigolabs.com
One of you are liars, But right now that guy has more solid proff you just have context do you have any images screenshots to prove your statements.
No 2 sides.. Scammer indeed I mean think about it if he can design and code sites like sportsline and lavalife why would his own site look so crappy...just soooo crappy
Yes. I paid him through getacoder but I think you all know how getacoder works. When you choose a coder and grant a project to him, you should escrow the money and then when the project is done, you should release it and so the coder will receive the money from getacoder. When I was fooled by him because he showed me all those good websites as his previous projects and I granted three projects to him, he told me that he can not wait until the projects to become finished and he wants to receive the money in installments because he has expenses and ... . As I wanted to show a good faith I accepted and so escrowed the price of each project in different installments. They were three big projects and when he showed me that some parts of the projects are done, I paid an installment. I wanted him to work with peace of mind and know that I am behind him and will support him financially but he betrayed my trust. I paid him some installment that the total some of them become over $5000. At the end of the project, he delivered a bunch of useless files with hundreds of errors and problems that he didn't accept to fix. I didn't ask him to make changes for free. I just asked him to fix the errors but he refused. On the other hand, one of the strict conditions that I had with him was that the scripts he developed for me should never need to work with register_globals=ON. Programmers know that when register_globals is "ON" on a website, it will be the best opportunity for hackers to hack the site because they can easily define variables on the browser address bar. As I had my own dedicated server, I didn't want it to be hacked by hackers. When he delivered the scripts, I found out that all of them have to work with register_globals=ON and in fact he had cheated me by setting the register_globals to "ON" locally through an htaccess file. What do you mean by this? Let me tell you that my money is not important for me. I will be happy if I can take it back from you one day but I just want to prevent others to become cheated by you and people like you. That's why I am spending my valuable time to introduce you to people. I want to show others how they can be fooled so easily. They have to be so careful when they want to choose a coder. I have been working online even before you become graduated in high school but you could fool me. Not because you are smart. Just because I didn't spend enough time to investigate and choose a coder precisely and carefully. This is the mistake that many others make. Thanks God that my life is good and I have a good income that you can never see even in your dreams. I am not starving like you and even if I was, I would never realized myself to cheat others to cover my expenses. He was used to live in Montreal and then moved to Toronto. I invited him for dinner to my house. He didn't have a car and so he set an appointment with me on the street somewhere in Toronto to pick him up. I went and picked him up to my house. Then I thought we are friends and I can count on him more. I asked him to give me his address to come and see him but he refused. He even didn't give me any phone number and all I have from him was a pager number and an email address. Then when I got realized that I am cheated by him, I went to the small claim court to file a complaint but they said I should have his physical address to sue him and I didn't have any address from him. He has an under-ground life and nobody knows where he lives.
He always says that he is graduated from university but he never tells what university. He even doesn't seem to have a high school diploma but introduces himself as a programmer. He is not a programmer. He just works as a broker and sends the projects to some other useless coders in other countries. They will deliver a bunch of garbage files to him, he pays them a small part of the money he receives from his clients and keeps the balance for himself. As you can see on his websites, he even don't know how to design an error free site.
This is the question he really should answer. As I said, LavaLife is belonged to Microsoft. He can even be sued by Microsoft and other companies because of abusing their names and reputation for his personal purposes and for cheating the others. Juan Miguel Yupangco, let people know if the LavaLife and SportsLine are made by you. You told me that your parents are lawyers. Can they tell you what the penalty is for abusing other companies trademarks and reputation to cheating others??? It has become so easy to go to jail these days because of such issues that you underestimate while doing. Just ask your parents and they will explain (of course if they really are lawyers. It is hard to believe in someone who has already lied too much).
Don't worry my friend. People like him can be found in all nations. I don't know why some people think about cheating and stealing when they need money. Maybe they are not grown up in good families. This can be the most important reason but I have seen that even in some good and well educated families, one of the children has problems and becomes a disgrace of his/her family.
I'm also a Filipino so I feel sad about hearing this, although I believe scams can be done by anyone regardless of color or culture. I just hope this issue gets settled soon, the victim vindicated and the culprit punished. Just curious about the shocking news Vahid. "When we do things right, no one remembers; when we do things wrong, no one forgets".
Hi All, Please follow the link below and see what answer one of the members of another forum has received from a website that this Microsoft programmer (Juan Miguel Yupangco) introduces himself as its creator: http://www.geekvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32750 I have posted about him in more than 50 forums. As you see he has preferred to shut up here because he has nothing to say. I know that it is almost impossible to receive my money back but at least I can prevent others to be cheated by him. Even in one of the other forums someone told me that "Juan Miguel Yupangco" is a stolen identity. It can really be because he is a member of many forums but he has never uploaded any avatar or photo in any of them. Also one day he told me that getacoder has blocked his money and wants some photo ID and wants to know who he is and where he lives.