How to fire a client who is a scamming gullible people through your work?

If this client is scamming people and if you're a reputable, ethical business, which it sounds like you are, then there really is no question that you should dump this client -- provided that you didn't sign a contract that binds you to the agreement for a certain period of time (although, if they misrepresented themselves, then you would likely have a legal "out" and should consult an attorney) -- and tell them in no uncertain terms why. Then, file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. As far as making amends to job-seekers, I don't know how they were "damaged" except for those who purchased the product from this client of yours and apparently didn't get what they were told they'd get.

If you feel obligated to do something for those people and have the funds, I suppose returning their money along with a letter of explanation might be an option. But I don't think, based on what you've stated here, that it's your responsibility to do so. You state that you did your due diligence in investigating this company before taking on the job, which is all you should be expected to do.In the future, though, if there's any way to observe how a company works--to see them in action--before entering into a "job" agreement, that might be one way to avoid such problems.

And perhaps you should ask the company for references and follow up with past clients. Sure, they could try to fake that and refer you to people who actually work for them, pretending to be customers, but it's at least something to try. And do internet searches to see what might be out there about a company.

With the extent social media, complaints of bad experiences spread like wildfire, and you could then investigate such claims further. You can also check with the FTC and see if they can tell you anything about a company.

It sounds like this company is taking advantage of people's desperation and I can understand why you don't want your own company associated with them. While I don't know that what you've described is an actual scam, that your clients felt they had to lie to you about what they do is enough to justify not wanting to be associated with them. Here's how you might handle it: 1.

Tell them you've been reading complaints about them and ask to hear their side. People sometimes call a situation a scam when they got what they paid for, but it didn't meet their expectations. If the company can't, or won't, give you a satisfactory response, explain that you're not comfortable with their business practices and will be terminating your relationship with them.2.

If cutting them off completely means cutting them off from your services, you have complete control of that, just provide the deliverables you agreed to provide and no more. If you're hoping to stop other companies from providing services to them, you can't.3. It's hard to spot a scammer before they actually run the scam.

If you can, get the names of the major people involved in the company and research them. People running shady operations sometimes change companies or change the name of the company and you can see if the individuals themselves have a history of shady dealings. And, while it's nice to think we can trust the Better Business bureau, they have been accused of "selling" good ratings, so don't depend on the BBB for your research.

You might ask your attorney if you can put a clause in your project contracts/agreements that would discourage clients from misrepresenting how they do business.4. You haven't done any damage to job seekers; people are responsible for the decisions they make. You may have unwittingly provided the mechanism, but you didn't actually defraud anyone.

If you belong to any discussion forums related to your profession, you can post to make others aware of this situation. Be careful to just state what you know for a fact, without any inflammatory language, speculation or accusations.

I think you must look at the contract that you signed. There surely must be some clause that this behavior breaks. You could also just tell them, be frank and blunt about it.

BTW thanks for the link. I have always look at BBB to see if the company is legit, and often there is no history.

Until I know you can't help the job seeker, but do some favour to them once you get out the situation, giving jobs to them will be great idea, this is only an attempt to increase faith in you. As your surrounding once is cheaters, it would eventually effect your reputation; if I am one among the job seeker I would definitely doubt you for the second time. Spotting is difficult; you need to do background research asking nearby member who knew them and their background too.

If you fee in comfortable with them then don't work with them until you’re comfortable with them. If they truly what to develop then there would certainly try to make you conformable. If you need to quite from them, try to find work which is better than current and ask polite that you would need to get to the other work.

There are going to stop you but don't fall in there trap, do you best and focus only on getting out of the situation and don't forget be polite with them at all cost. The second question is controversy of the first one and you need to decide whether to stay or not.......

You need a good lawyer. Don't risk your entire business and reputation on amature advice. Look up a pre-paid legal councel on internet.

A lot of these young lawyers are very sharp and aware of newer laws. If you are a sharp young businessman they will probably take your case and set-you-up with a monthly pre-paid legal coverage to be there for you...when you need it. It's a good way to have a built in 'corporate lawyer' by splitting costs with many other small business.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.