Kim Hughes (KimHughes.com) SCAM
Written by admin on May 14, 2008 – 3:36 pm -We were SHOCKED to have recieved several detailed emails regarding Kim Hughes (an online real estate virtual assistant, owner of kimhughes.com). Kim Hughes has been accused of fraud, scamming users and we will explain exactly what these emails detailed and why we are in disbelief. (We will also contact KimHuges.com and ask for clarification on this serious matter)
The emails consisted of email snippets and screenshots, detailing conversations between clients (4 in total emailed us this week) and KimHuges.com (we wont disclose email address, screenshots, or private info until we have heard from Kim Huges on this matter.)
After the clients consulted with kimhughes.com about Branding and Marketing packages, one also asked about Blog marketing/design/installation, these clients were presented with a quote, for the fees. As per the emails received, that will go on record if need be, The clients were all asked to pay 30% of the sum to start off with, which they all did as they felt comfortable dealing with this online real estate virtual assistant! Suprise suprise, after that, their emails were ignored, calls ignored also and when someone did answer, they were informed that ‘Kim’ would get back to them, and to leave a message?? Come on people…are you serious? They would inform the clients that it would take time for their orders to be processed (right, how that is possible we don’t know) - only to wait several days with no reply.
This is not good news for the Online Real Estate Virtual Assistant community, because up until now they have held a clean record as being honest hard working individuals/companies. Never have we heard of such complaint.
We hope Kim finds the time to email us or comment back in a reply to these 4 individuals, who’s personal information we are only willing to disclose with Kim herself for clarification reasons.
A sad day on the web, to know that Scam’s happen in all fields online, not just the well known ones. Here I was thinking of hiring an online real estate agent next month.
Tags: bad service, fraud, kimhughes.com
Posted in SEO, Scam, Sink |
May 15th, 2008 at 4:47 am
Scammers really do come in all shapes and sizes. The worst scammers are those you least expect, last year that huge chain of working from home mother forums got sued for scamming it’s users into paying for subscriptions only to offer nothing of what was originally discussed.
Nice blog post! Real Estate Virtual Assistants are on my ‘to keep an eye on’ list now too.
May 15th, 2008 at 5:04 am
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May 17th, 2008 at 6:47 am
It was brought to my attention on May 15th about this blog regarding my integrity, which I immediately left a comment. To date I still have not heard from your organization.
I would like for someone get back to me ASAP and to forward the documentation you claim you have so I can look into this matter.
Call me at 903-569-6763 or the email on my website.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Kim, there was no comment left by you or anyone else (that was not spam related) regarding this post on may the 15th, or 16th for that matter.
Someone will be in contact with you Monday morning to get your statement regarding the issue at hand.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I would also like to state that we have received several complaints today about you going off on a spamming rampage, commenting on all the blogs that have posted about the virtual real estate scam issue. They claim you’re copy pasting the same comment about your integrity and how you pioneered this and that, a bit of advice, don’t spam people, they don’t like it.
It seems that your replies on several other blogs seems as if you’re directing your blog posts to us, I’d like to state (for the record) that we are in no way associated with other blogs and that we do not condone your acts of spam in our name or on our behalf, what you do on other blogs is your responsibility and we may not be held responsible for your actions on other peoples blogs.
May 24th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I’m wondering why Kim’s even posting here. I mean, of course she was contacted BEFORE the scam post was written. Watshit wasn’t so irresponsible that they would post a damaging comment about someone without talking to that person first. Right?
May 25th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Shari, no Kim was not contacted before she posted this. She was and is still free to email us if she wants to discuss this further. We’re a blog, a site that’s simply dedicated to getting the views of people out there, reporting bad services, scams and reviewing sites. We in no way shape or form attack or aim at defaming individuals or companies, our soul aim is to enlighten the general public.
This is a public blog, and it’s a free country, people can send in information regarding any site or service, as they do by the dozen a day and we pick something interesting to talk about on our blog from time to time. It’s all about awareness.
If Kim believes the info sent tons, and documentation we have may not hurt her integrity if shared publicly, then she can ask us to clarify WHY we created this post. All she has to do is give us the green right to make what we have in our position public for our readers to judge, and we WILL. Simple as that.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I just want to go on record that I work in the same industry as Kim and to my knowledge she is a repritable person in our industry. It is hard to scam someone with the type of work that we do. Kim is one that has helped out many virtual assistants and I feel that you need to make sure that your facts are 100% correct before you post these types of items about people as this is her business, this is what she does for a living (no, not scamming) but assisting realtors and those in our industry. She is not a scam artist to my knowlege.