Hello,
Is there a spot dedicated in this forum where you can report other users for horrible experience’s for others can be aware of them?
It’s Unity’s policy not to be involved in this case, so reporting it will do nothing. It will make me stare at the report and dismiss it because moderators and Unity can’t get involved.
If you make a deal with an unknown person, then the onus is on you to ensure it’s a deal that isn’t going to backfire. This means escrow, references, smaller payment milestones and so on.
If the person is being abusive then that’s another matter. But nothing stops people like this coming back and scamming again under other accounts. There’s simply nothing anyone can do except design out the problem: don’t be scammed. It’s not difficult to protect yourself.
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Use email. Don’t skype (unless it’s joining a pre-existing community project). Don’t get suckered by cool-talk, hip-lingo, and fancy acronyms. Parrots can talk too. Someone talking trashy and derogatory about others with you is likely not someone you should trust with your valuables when you have your back turned. Don’t run executables from them or strange parties on your computer. Exchange source code via BitBucket or GitHub. Keep your antivirus and such up to date and active.
Don’t form teams that use anything but free assets until you know the person/people you are teaming with better. Don’t pay them for any work or products they might offer you. Don’t share with them private resources you’ve bought via any sharing / peer-to-peer service or directly, use CC0 resources or similar resources.
Instead if you want to learn, use the Unity Learn section and have patience before trying to create a game before you learn anything. Patience and effort, a little bit at a time. Then join a public project that is already underway, contribute, meet new people and maybe you can will team up with one of them for private projects.
There are one or two scamsters that keep coming back to the forums but essentially unless the victims decide to press legal charges in the appropriate jurisdictions; and make no mistake the victims may do so if they wish, but it requires a bit of research, effort, and legal orders; Unity, the internet service providers, and so are are ignorant and powerless to help you.
And in any case it is not a wise ideal to ask private citizens or businesses to circumvent the power of their police forces or their judiciary or their legislative entities as they don’t have the authority or know-how and will get quickly slapped down. Despite all the crocodile tears about the various police forces of the world; it is the police force in your local jurisdiction that you need to go whenever a crime is committed and the place those crying crocodile tears do go to.
If a crime has been committed then ask your local police force what you should do. If it’s essentially petty cash they are liable to tell you similar advice as to what you’ve already been given.
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