Unfortunately, it is time to go public with my scam alert for JH Group, Inc. (aka JH Cryptofarm) headquartered in Corona, CA, with various mining facilities within USA and potentially Canada as well (?)
Here's what happened:In July 2019, I was hired by JH Group to develop and deploy a custom operating system for mining Ethereum onto 183 of their GPU rigs. This included testing each GPU as well. The project was completed successfully on August 7, with a spreadsheet of the final results sent to all of the necessary people. I also left them a couple USB drives with all of the files necessary to upgrade the rigs in the future, or to install the software on new rigs.
My primary point of contact for the project (whose name I won't mention as he is no longer with JH) was very happy with the results and assured me several times that payment had been approved and would soon be sent. However, around 1-2 months ago, he called and told me that he was no longer working at JH Group. I followed up with others from the company who I had interacted with in the past (ceo, cmo, director) and I've been absolutely shunned by everyone, not a single reply or any contact from anyone.
I did not require payment up front on this project, as I'd worked with this company in the past and was willing to receive payment afterwards. However, it's become clear that these people are willing to be very dishonorable in their business dealings. I'm disappointed with their behavior and thus I'd like to strongly advise anyone who is considering doing business with JH Group to forget about it, you can always ask me for more specifics details about this if you need.
Also, I would appreciate your thoughts or questions regarding this. I don't really have the time and money necessary to fly to California or Oregon for any type of small claims court, as I'm living in Virginia currently.
Here's the details: (no private info included)
Amount scammed: The amount that I am owed according to contract is $2500 usd, and they also promised to reimburse shipping for one of the GPU rigs ($30), so that brings the total amount that I lost to $2530.
Company headquarters:JH Group Inc
809 E Parkridge Ave, Ste 101
Corona, CA 92879
Oregon mining branch HQ and facility location:62885 NE Mercury Place
Bend, OR
Website: https://www.jhgroupinc.com/ (alternative name
JHCF Cryptofarm)
Employees involved:CEO: Emil Hakim
CMO: Sameh Radwan
Director: Jonathan Mendez
Reference email / contract: (before)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/EByYf.pngReference paste showing some selected data from the results excel file: https://pastebin.com/4bCUkA0QReference paste showing part of one of the shell scripts: https://pastebin.com/5JQ3ymyB
