Complaint Review: Nikita Maltsev

Nikita Maltsev runs an AdWords Credit Card Theft Scam!!!

My name is Greg and I’m a local business owner in Mississauga, Ontario. I met Nikita when I was getting my phone fixed a few months ago. We got to talking and he offered to help me out with my AdWords campaign as he claimed that he was running his business’ campaign and had the necessary knowhow. He asked for access, I gave it to him. He checked out my campaign and said he needs to move ti to a new account and would even be able to set me up with a $300 coupon from Google as he had a special relationship with them. For this he needed my Visa card. I gave it to him. To this point there was no mention of any kind of fees, he said he was just doing me a favor. However, he never did set me up with a new account. Instead Nikita Maltsev proceeded to charge my credit card in the amount of $1,638.50 five times before it got maxed out. When I saw the charges I didn’t know it was him, I called Visa and they said I had previously had a transaction from this company. To my surprise it was The Tech Know Space, his iPhone repair company! When I contacted Nikita he claimed that I signed a contract with him and agreed to be charged consulting fees in the amount of $1,450 plus HST for each consultation. I was in shock, as this was clearly a scam! I asked to see the contract, to my surprise he produced a contract with my signature. The signature was most likely forged from my signature on the work order for my iPhone repair. I opened an investigation with Visa, but it did not produce any results as Nikita supplied a fake contract and fake invoices. Please beware of this scammer! I’m sure this is not the first time someone has fallen prey to this scam artist.