Less than a week after I posted my encounter with scam artist Juka Ribeiro from Australia, I was contacted by 2 more Filipino providers whom he also owed money to. I wonder how many more people he took advantage of.
This is Juka Ribeiro‘s strategy:
- He will contact your company and tell you that he is with this company (he will make this company look big, with directors and all)
- He talks like he is a nice guy so you will feel at ease with him
- He will rush you into providing him your services without any advanced payment. Again, since he seems like a nice guy, you will fall into this trap.
- Once you start billing him, he will tell you all sorts of alibi like Australia is strict with wire transfers because of money laundering issues, something came up with the management, etc. etc. Just today, I got an e-mail from him using another alibi:
Dear Wendy,
Due to a unexpected downsize in business and restructuring we are willing to organise an installment payments plan to cover outstandings.
Please get back to me and let me know if installment arrangement can be discussed.
Regards,
Juka Ribeiro
To Juka: Cheating will never get you anywhere. I will make sure you’ll learn your lesson.
To anyone else whom Juka owed money to, please contact me. We are already talking to the agency that will help us sack him.
NEW UPDATE (8/25/2010)
Last Monday, I found out that Juka created a wordpress site turning everything upside down. In his blog post entitled Beware of Juka Ribeiro or Beware of me, he stated everything falsely. To prove that, we have recorded an unedited video screen cast showing communication history with Juka Ribeiro of Smart Local Media and White Label SEM. This is a two part video which you can view here and here.
pinoy din po ako from qc
ang laki nang utang nang juka nayan sa akin smartloacl media first na design ako ang nag code tapus hindi ako binayaran with 2months salaray
thanks joenald. samin almost P100k ang utang nya.
“not today, tomorrow or ever, i live my life with honour
my word is my soul, not like some” ilan sa mga linya ni juka.
scam artist talaga kahit huling huli na ayaw parin umamin.
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hello im also a filipino victim din kami ni juka 140k ang utang nya sa akin sa partner ko 180k ginawa din namin ang smartlocal at iba pang sites paano nyo sya makakasuhan gusto namin sumama sa inyo
let’s put juka in jail
Same here I was also a victim of this person
me too, been working for smart local tapos laging delayed sweldo pati sunday nagwowork para matuwa naman sa akin tapos bandang huli hindi din ako babayaran ng hayup na yan
I too am a victim of this guy… same with you guys… ni-rush namin ung pinapagawa niya.. lagi niya sinasabi na ung partner niya di natutuwa… perfect na gusto pang mas maging perfect.. ultimo spacing ng lines kelangan perfect e alam naman natin minsan di pwedeng exact ang spacing depending on browser..
anyway, sana makulong na yang taong yan… should you guys need additional information or you mga transcript ng usapan namin.. i can forward these, if only to help our kababayan’s to put this pr_ck in jail or at least to have him loose his face in business…
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i hope juka gets cancer, suffer for several years and die a painful death.
HI,
Juka did the same thing to me.
Silvia
Victoria takes an entirely different approach to enforcement. The Department of
Consumer and Business Affairs uses complaint data to identify the areas of
highest need and takes a campaign approach to tackling the problem.85 In 1999,
the emphasis was on associations fundraising without displaying their
‘association number’. This led to one A$400 conviction for the Care for Children
Foundation and a A$l 500 contribution to the Court Fund and a 12 month good
behaviour bond for the Disabled Children’s F~undation.’~ The subsequent
investigation into the Care for Children Foundation also found that the
organisation was not keeping records and that one of its committee members
(Juka Ribeiro) had breached her duty to avoid conflicts by voting on a contract
with the association in which she had an interest.87 Ribeiro was convicted and
77 The height of this approach can be seen in the decision of the High Court of Australia in Cameron
v Hogan (1934) 51 CLR 258.
Cf Dixon v Esperance Bay Turf Club (Inc) [2002] WASC 110 (Unreported, Roberts-Smith J, 17
May 2002).
79 This conclusion is supported, albeit without any supporting evidence, by John Farrar, Corporate
Governance in Australia and New Zealand (2000) 381.
80 Department of Fair Trading (New South Wales), Annual Reports, 1997198, 1998199, 1999100,
200010 1 and 200 1102.
Commissioner for Consumer Affairs (South Australia), Annual Reporrs, 1998199, 1999100,
200010 1 and 200 1102.
82 Office of Fair Trading (Western Australia), Annual Reports, 1999100 and 2000101.
83 Commissioner for Consumer Affairs (South Australia), Annual Report (2001) 35.
84 Rowan v Cornwall (No 5) [2002] SASC 160 (Unreported, Debelle J, 21 June 2002) [3 181.
Consumer and Business Affairs (Victoria), Annual Report (2000) vii.
86 Ibid 40,45.
87 Ibid.
86 Monash University Law Review (Vol30, No 1 ’04)
fined A$l 500?8 In 2000, the Department targeted the traditionally low rate of
submissions of annual returns through a letter campaign to all associations. This
resulted in an increased compliance rate from 54 per cent to 74 per cent for
prescribed associations, from 38 per cent to 53 per cent for non-prescribed
associations, and in de-registration of 700 association^.^^ It is interesting to note
that although both Victoriago and South Australia used enforceable undertakings
in policing other legislation that they administer,gl neither considered this method
appropriate for associations.
He rips off people ranging from children’s foundation in 1999, networking marketing scams…. he claims he’s gots lots of money but really he is just a small time operator. after 10 years he is still up to his old scams.
can anyone locate this p-ick. hes dead
Hi, I just quit my job with Juka this year bec he is full of shit. He pays me though and it’s always 1-2 weeks delayed (bec I always put the files on hold without telling him that I’m putting it on hold). I have read this blog already after a month of working with him, but he denied all of the accusations towards him. But I do believe that he is a scammer. We still talk until now bec he hasn’t payed me yet for 3 weeks and he told me that he wil just give the fee after I gave the files he needs.
I have his number and address. I’m sure everyone wants, I’ll post it in the morning.
And by the way, I think his using another name, it’s same name but it spelled a bit different. His using Juca in his biz card
hi all, i need to know about this Juka (last name he use, latest business name, etc). because i think i’m working with him now, but he’s not using juka name. thanks in advanced.
Hi,
are u his new designer?
beware with Indesignmedia from australia.
he use “rick” when communicate with me. check this out:
http://who.is/whois/indesignmedia.com.au/
thanks for the info please give me the full name he’s using so i can include it in this post.
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You know Guys, my husband is one of his victims, Rick from Indesign media. It has just happened. He hired him couple months ago without full payment on the agreed schedule of payment. Thanks The Lord today we know about him. He decided to end the job since no payment received until now.
if someone needs more info about him, please leave the messages and your email here, i’ll send you some good info about him thus he’ll regret on what he’s done to us.
Hi I work for small company and have been fed a load of lies for some time after I stupidly paid in advance for products still not recieved. Any info on Juca would be greatly appreciated
Leigh
My email is leigh350@gmail.com
he has new name Juke Riberio aka Rick aka indesignmedia.com.au
Thanks for letting me know about him. he should be punished.