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Gemini C Group Yvette Mayflower Not Paying For Project Awarded for His Company Internet
19th of Sep, 2011 by User125413
I am freelancer for almost 2 yrs now and just got a contract under Gemini C Group headed by Yvette Mayflower, and it is a fixed project but she clearly told me not to worry anything about payment since she will really pay me half upon 50% of project completion and entire amount will be paid after the project but at first week of my work we are more than 20 workers under our team and 4 of my co team contacted me if the employer able to pay me since all of them are not paid yet and she just end their contract without any reason at all though I am bit alarmed but still I continue on working with the project with my own set of staff we are all 5 working on the project but even we are on the 80% of the project she is not paying me and started to sounds weird sending additional information about revision of her instruction but I just do it without hesitation but when I ask favor even atleast not 50% of the contract payment just for me to pay my team still she will tell me that I am not even 10% of the project completion which I don't know how she came up to that basis, she is making stories that she is asking me per products/services when in fact it is clearly given on her instruction that it is per industry and the list she give me is PER INDUSTRY. Now she just don't WANT to pay at all....She is the WORST EMPLOYER I ENCOUNTER ONLINE... I already waited for so long for her to meet half way of the payment but I realized that all allegations which my co team told me is really TRUE... that she is a BIG SCAMMER... I hope no one will ever work with her again...they will just waste their time and effort without getting any cents at all...SHE IS JUST A USER....By the way she even ended all my co team for me not to communicate with them. I just give it all to GOD to punished this kind of person I hope no ONE will ever be a VICTIM....
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4536 days ago by User10983
I had the same experience. I worked for a month and kept up my end of the agreement. I had great feedback each week and met every deadline. They didn't pay come month end - not one penny for over 60 hrs of DOCUMENTED work. I have excellent feedback from other employers and MANY long term contracts. They are a scam and are just trying to make money off naive hardworking people - other freelancers BEWARE!
4533 days ago by Mickyservices
please view this: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002813686504


And they always have a way of by passing this online platforms to recruit more only to coz further pain.

I have made a complain to law... we can't have scammers that roam about ripping people off.

I share your pain as well.
4521 days ago by Mr. Harris
hi there,

We got a contract with Gemini C too but have not started to work. Can we talk about this? Email me: [email protected].

From there we can talk to skype.
4515 days ago by Garnetgemmz
oh my God! I have a contract with Yvette Mayflower, and the project is ongoing. We have already sent hundreds of email addresses already and it is almost done. She had messaged me that there are some problems on their account when i starting to ask for the payment and she said we had not yet done the one half percent of the project. Can we talk about this? yvette mayflower is a scammer? please adviced us what should we do? skype thru this id garnetgemz please. thank you so much
4514 days ago by Jane13434
Gemini is still at it. They are suspended from oDesk for the second time. It's pretty obvious to anyone who has worked for them that they are either posting themselves or paying others to post positive reviews within Ripoff Report. I'm curious why they haven't done the same here. Also, they've changed their name within oDesk to T G Group. I'm not sure if they are doing this at other freelance sites just yet. definitely something to keep an eye on...
4505 days ago by IamDisappointed
It happened to me also. Me and my friend worked for her and sending her email addresses once a week. I am so disappointed, my friend is not an Odesk user, she took effort to do the task and now I don't know how to tell her that Yvette is a scammer?! *sigh*

The last email I have received from Yvette is this:

We have decided to permanently revoke our membership completely from Odesk. After almost three weeks of discussion with Odesk billing to transfer our account to a more suitable one to meet the needs of our company, more specifically our standards and the well being of the people working for our company we feel that Odesk is simply not a suitable site to bring in new people to work for our company.

In our discussion we had 2 major concerns:

1) Our payment volume was going to significantly increase in the next 60 days as we are expanding our services and contractor membership. As a result we required that their processing system specifically decrease the lag time between when we pay contractors and when they receive it. Currently this is a minimum of 72 hours. We simply can not have people waiting 3 days or usually 5 days from what we understand after we have submitted a payment. In our opinion it should be instant.

2) The amount of money being taken away from our contractors is 10% and we requested that since our payment volume will increase that they decrease that to at least 5%. We are not accustomed to having any of the money we pay contractors siphoned off by a middle man (in this case Odesk) by any more than 1.5%. Most of the time we pay by paypal or by direct deposit or wire transfer. 10% is simply too high for our contractors and we don't like the way their policy is to contractors, we feel that they are taking way too much money from contractors and we simply would not tolerate this.
As an example for your project when the full payout is done they will take approximately $238 this is the only site that does this.

In light of this development the company has decided to move most of its contractor interest with other sites such as guru.com, elance.com, ifreelance.com and vworker.com amongst a few that we associate with. Unfortunately as a result of our decision to no longer associate with them Odesk naturally suspended all of our contracts which is understandable. They also claim that we were in violation of abusing their system when we paid contractors outside of Odesk. The problem with their claim on this is that we paid contractors outside of Odesk when we communicated outside of Odesk which is legal. But their support staff are so unfamiliar with their own rules that it's simply astonishing to us and unprofessional.

As a result of all this we will need to proceed forward with paying in an alternative manner. Usually we simply pay contractors by paypal or by direct deposit. If you have a paypal account please let me know it now. If you want to be paid by direct deposit then I need your direct bank account details. Your funds will be sent directly from our business account which can directly send funds to any country in the world with the acceptation of Guam, Iran, and Libya at this time. If you are not comfortable with that at this time that is fine. Alternatively if you have family or relatives in the United States that can transfer funds for you we can send them your check in the mail. Or you can sign up at guru.com get an account there and we will go ahead and remake the project for you. Our account on Guru has been upgraded and unlike on Odesk they did not have to recreate a new account for us altogether so we will be able to take care of this for you quickly.

Again you have four options -

1) Paypal
2) Direct deposit or wire transfer
3) A domestic check (within the US) to a trusted friend or family member
4) Sign up at guru.com and register your account there

Also, it's important to note that unless you choose option 4 all correspondence about your project will be required to be done by email, skype chat, or phone.

Please let me know which you would like at your soonest convenience so I can make the appropriate accommodations for you.

Sincerely -
Yvette Mayflower
Gemini C Group
http://geminicgroup.com
[email protected]
4503 days ago by Ppaliwal
Hello Yvette,

I worked also on your Business Inventory project, looking also that some thing is wrong with your company in odesk, due to these problems I am not getting answered properly also regarding my project, I have got your last mail on 28th Oct after that there is no proper response, You also told me liar its fair with your employ.

Thanks
Prakash
4452 days ago by Mobarok Hossain
The same thing happened with me. I was in a contract with Gemini C Group represented by Yvette Mayflower (in fact, I am still in that contract though it is suspended for more than 3 months now) at oDesk for more than 3K US$. After handling a huge volume of work for more than one month with such efforts, Ms. Yvette refuges to make payment once the final work was delivered. In the process, I already spent thousand dollars to hire people for my help. I sent her numbers of mail, but she did not reply. I even told her to make some percentage of payment so that I can cover up the amount I spent from my own pocket, but no result. I donno what to do!
4451 days ago by Nishantpalan
I am Nishant Palan from India. I am on Odesk. I am also a victim of Yvette mayflower of Gemini C group. I worked hard for 2 months. I got the feedback that my work was excellent and when the time for payment arrived, there were all the excuses. This person and this group is basically interested in defrauding contractors. Their intent from the beginning is to defraud. And one strange thing is that they have probably registered with odesk with some new identity. So what Yvette is saying about the dispute with odesk seems to be fabricated.

I want to know what actions can be taken against such people. Is there a legal recourse>

Please advise me

Nishant
4441 days ago by Senda8
Me too I'm also victim for Yvette Mayflower, Gosh I send her a thousands of email what on the contract state...
Just only yesterday I complete the report...I was thinking why I still not receive in her reply..
After I send my all entries...I still have obligation of my friends who help me through this project to complete..but they end of nothing...Only god will punish you..
God I really...really...really hit...hope you gonna die spammer shit...
pls do add me in skype: adnes3
4364 days ago by Journalist
I was also victim to same scam and I am now taking things further and will write articles on Gemini C Group and scams on online freelancers (I am a journalist). I will contact all above people who have their contact details here to discuss their experience.
They may have got work from me without paying but I will make money on this project otherwise... There is no such thing as free lunch!
4350 days ago by Betinasbed
Oh my, I am still going after them for this money as well. They owe me $1, 700 for a completed work and I have been dealing with Christopher Christian since July 2011 and they've got this excuse of doing verification. Now I am dealing with Kelly Williams who is supposedly the person taking care of "verification". The verification for the Business Development project in ODesk started late January, for 1700 leads, I don't know why it will take more than a month for that. The excuse is that they do not have enough manpower resources to do the verification. I'm glad I found this post and I will also tap my contacts in the online community to make sure these scammers won't be successful in business. I will cooperate in every way to make sure they will pay and stop scamming people. If I can't get my cash, I'll find another way to get even. Legally, since we're overseas, we cannot sue them but I am very sure that with a lot of connection in the outsourcing industry, these guys will not prosper. They are based in Florida and I doubt if they are really in Florida at all.

Don't hesitate to message me if you want to do a campaign to raise awareness on ensuring these people won't take advantage of hard working freelancers ever again.
4329 days ago by Journalist
Those that are still trying to contact the company who do you deal with these days? I am very keen to figure out people behind this and very willing to join forces with other contractors who are scammed by these people. They just scammed the wrong person this time...
4326 days ago by Juxtapose
Hi there! I have also worked for them and they promised me a position come launching of the Stream Prime. It has been more than year but the company hasn't been launched yet. They just keep on postponing the launching. The truth is I am still waiting for it. I will try to look at these things having heard your complains. Also, I searched for Gemini C Group and they have now a new website. I guess it is owned by a German company now, so if you plan to make negative publicities, please make sure that it is directed to them, not at this new owners. Please check at www.geminicgroup.com
4326 days ago by Juxtapose
The person that I am in contact with is Abigail Dawson! Hmmm...hope they get to pay for what they owe
4324 days ago by Journalist
Everyone seems to be dealing with different named person from Gemini Group but have exactly same story to tell... If anyone wants to join forces with me to find out people behind this - please let me know!

Anyone in contact with Yvette Mayflower? In one story she passed away in January but to other contractors she has been emailing still much later... So really its nothing but scam.

Its hardly a surprise that the German company does not exist either... There is nothing about that company online expect 4 hits on google that direct to Gemini website. Yet another scam there.
4323 days ago by Journalist
@Juxtapose Who are you in contact at Gemini C these day?
4323 days ago by Journalist
@Betinasbed I'll join forced with you to get back to this company as they will pay - one way or another... Please contact me!!

Anybody else interested to join forces and make sure they pay?

Contact me on scammedbygemini at gmail dot com

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