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Complaint Review: Dan Amzallag - Gaithersburg Maryland
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Dan Amzallag
122 Gold Kettle Drive Gaithersburg, 20878 Maryland, USA
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3013251550
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www.moverzfax.com
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Dan Amzallag / MoverZfax / ProAce International Moving and Storage / Fitness Trainers Network *** Cheated/Scammed Me $7839.33 *** Gaithersburg Maryland
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SUMMARY: Dan Amzallag cheated me of my time and $7839.33 (Dan, the owner of ProAce International & MoverZfax, Gaithersburg, Maryland). I was the most recent website developer on his website, MoverZfax.
It deeply saddens me to be writing these words today. Not only was Dan like a brother to me (he use to often time call me “brother”), but he was also a friend. I first met Dan in 2010. He is a very nice guy with a great sense of humor.
Nearly a year and a half ago, on July 7, 2012, I joined Dan in his newest endeavor as the website developer: MoverZfax (a website). He had already been working on MoverZfax for some time, him having outsourced to various programmers from the Philippines and Poland. When I did only a basic analysis of his website, I found a multitude of errors and security vulnerabilities before even setting eyes on the code (XSS/cross-site scripting, no server-side validation, broken forms and links, discovered the database name, database username, MySQL hostname, administrator control panel which was not protected from brute force attacks, total lack of SEO/Search Engine Optimization, and other things)!
I agreed to lower my hourly rate for him to $60 an hour, and quickly began working away to finish MoverZfax. It wasn’t until about a month and a half later that Dan finally sent me a contract on August 24, 2012, after me insisting; however, he left out one of the most basic clauses—my hourly rate. By this time, I had already put in 101.62 hours of work, which meant that Dan owed me $6097. The fact that he lagged this much to even send me a contract, only for him to finally send a contract with one of the most important clauses missing really raised some red flags.
I was just about halfway done with completing MoverZfax, and now I had to contend with the fear of not getting paid for my hard work. To ensure I wouldn’t be left unpaid, I refused to sign this faulty contract and insisted that Dan pay me for the work I had completed before I finish the project. Dan started making excuses about not having any money, and he would have to try to “knock on doors” and “scratch $500 from one door” and more from others. It took him a month to pay me slightly less than half of what he owed me—$3000 on September 20, 2012.
Despite my previous concerns of him not paying, I resumed working on MoverZfax even though he did not pay me the full amount he owed me. I saw it as a token of good faith that he paid almost half the amount he owed me. I now realize this was a big mistake.
When I first came aboard MoverZfax, Dan only had around 6,000 movers in the database of movers. By October 25, 2012, I increased this number to ensure that every single mover in the United States was in his database—a grand total of 34,848 movers.
During the next few weeks, I was going to be busy as I was getting married, so I spoke to Dan to let him know ahead of time, and to lower my already lowered hourly rate even more because I wouldn’t be working for the next few weeks. On November 15, 2012, I spoke to Dan and lowered my hourly rate to $50. I should stress that had Dan not lagged months earlier in paying me, I would have finished MoverZfax before my wedding. Despite this, I still lowered my already lowered rate due to my strong worth ethic.
On Christmas day of 2012, I resumed working on MoverZfax. Dan is a hosting re-seller, so he has his own hosting. His hosting does not have the necessary features for MoverZfax to run. I told him he would need to talk to his hosting company and upgrade his hosting with them (I had absolutely no vested interest in him upgrading his hosting as he was already working with a hosting company). Dan would not pay his hosting company to upgrade his hosting to allow MoverZfax to work. His excuse was that it was too expensive and he didn’t want to upgrade until MoverZfax started generating money.
To give Dan credit, his hosting company (which I will not mention to protect his privacy) is really overpriced. For the money he is spending on his hosting company, he could work with a number of other hosting companies and get much better features. Regardless, this is not an excuse to not have the needed hosting for his website!
Since Dan did not want to get the needed hosting, I gave him an alternate solution. The solution I gave him is wrong in practice—which I explained to him—but the only option at hand since he did not want to upgrade his hosting. I used an old computer of his at his house as a server. This aspect alone, took about 16 hours to implement.
I made sure all the files related to MoverZfax were encrypted on Dan’s computer so that even Dan would not be able to access them until paying me the full amount he owed me.
By February 17, 2013, I had finished the core site features, and only about 20 hours of work was left to finish and launch the website (securing the website more, fixing forms and other mistakes the previous developers had made).
Since I had finished the core features of MoverZfax, and all that was left was cleaning up the mess from previous developers, on February 17, 2013, I asked Dan to pay me the remaining amount he owed me: $9839.33. It wasn’t for another 3 months that Dan paid me a single dime! Finally, after 3 months, on May 17, 2013, he paid me $2000. Only $2000! I refused to work the remaining 20 hours to complete the website until Dan paid me the full amount he owed me.
I have been waiting so patiently for him to pay me what he owes me to no avail. When I tried calling him on October 7, 2013, he did not answer, and instead Dan emailed me stating:
“Hey Abe
I am out of country to seek investment for Moverzfax. Can't answer calls even though I see you called. Will give you updates”
The sad thing is that this email was sent from Washington, DC. As far as I know, the capitol of our country (Washington, DC) is in our country! I gave him the benefit of the doubt, assuming that he was out of the country but using a VPN located in Washington, DC for security reasons.
After that, I waited and waited, and didn’t receive anything from Dan. Finally, I tried calling him on December 10, 2013. Again, he did not answer. Instead he sent me an email:
“Abe
I been in Canada for a few weeks already. I lost my uncle, he passed away and been dealing with losing my house. Been working on getting finances taken care of to rake my house out of foreclosure. Its been hard. I can't accept calls when I roam.
I am staying at my uncle home to deal with his estate and deal with whatever nightmare I m dealing with
Dan
Will contact you when I get back to md”
I truly felt for him when reading that email. Strangely, he sent that email from Chevy Chase, MD. Last I heard, Maryland is not part of Canada. I emailed him my condolences. This time he replied the following email from HIS HOME ADDRESS on December 11, 2013:
“I appreciate your condolences. I was very close to him. He had what we call widow maker. Means his death was very sudden. He was very healthy, exercising everyday, eating right. Not sure what happened. Anyways, once I resolve issues with attorney and his estate, I will be back. I also have to deal with my foreclosure here in USA. Just so much s**t yo deal with brother :-(
Dan”
This email was sent from his home in Gaithersburg, Maryland. How do I know? Because when I was coding MoverZfax, I had to hardcode his home IP address to give it permission to access his hosting server. Dan was definitely not in Canada—Dan was at his house in Maryland! No doubt about it whatsoever.
I told him I knew that he was in his house in Maryland and tried calling him over 100 times. He refused to answer, and kept acting like he was in Canada, audaciously sending me this email:
“Trying to get to phone booth to call you.”
This email was also sent from his home address.
During the time I worked on MoverZfax, I turned down other job offers and prioritized MoverZfax. I lost time and money because of Dan.
Dan owes me $7839.33 and now he has tried to pull the disappearing act. Even if he has succeeded in ripping me off, I’ll do what I can to make sure Dan does not rip off anyone else. Others should not have to suffer like I did.
Upon further investigation, I have uncovered that Dan runs over a dozen websites. He continuously posts ads on Craigslist as well as other sites in an effort to get others to do free, underpaid, or unpaid work for him.
Here is some of the information I have unraveled regarding Dan Amzallag.
I sincerely hope this information helps others to not get scammed by Dan Amzallag like I was.
Business contact information of Dan Amzallag:
Business Names:
- MoverZfax
- Moversfax
- ProAce
- ProAce International
- ProAce International Moving and Storage
- ProAce International Moving and Storage LLC
- Move Me With Care
- Moving U With Care
- Fitness Trainers Network
- IBEM (Internet Based Email Marketing)
- Nationwide Moving Network
- Underdog Idols
- Relocators Network
- Certified Movers Network
- CompuMatch
- All Fitness Gurus
- My Import Export Space
- Star Quality Moving And Storage
Mailing [business] Addresses:
USA Office
ProAce International
122 Gold Kettle Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Warehouse Facility
11850 Parklawn Drive,
Rockville, MD 20852
Canada Office
ProAce International
5616 Randall Avenue
Montreal, Quebec, H4V-2W2
Fitness Trainers Network inc.
122 Gold Kettle Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Email Addresses:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
Phone Numbers:
- 866-828-9688 (MoverZfax)
- 877-963-7283 (ProAce International & Fitness Trainers Network & ProAce International Moving and Storage LLc)
- 301-947-7563 (ProAce International & RelocatorsNetwork)
- 801-991-8419 (Fax, ProAce International & Fitness Trainers Network)
- 877-963-7283 (MoveMeWithCare.com & ProAce International Publishing Group)
- 301-947-7563 (MoveMeWithCare.com)
- 877-963-7383 (MovingUWithCare.com)
- 301-325-1550 (ProAce International Moving and Storage LLc & Fitness Trainers Network & Star Quality Moving And Storage)
- 801-991-8419 (Fax, RelocatorsNetwork)
Websites Belonging to Dan Amzallag:
- http://www.moverzfax.com
- http://www.moversfax.com
- http://www.proaceintl.com
- http://www.movemewithcare.com
- http://www.movinguwithcare.com
- http://moving.proaceintl.com
- http://www.proaceinternational.com
- http://www.fitnesstrainersnetwork.com
- http://www.ibem.biz
- http://www.nationwidemovingnetwork.com
- http://www.underdogidols.com
- http://www.theamericandreambook.org
- http://www.relocatorsnetwork.com
- http://www.100daystohappiness.info
Websites [inactive] previously belonging to Dan Amzallag:
- http://www.certifiedmoversnetwork.com
- http://www.compumatch.org
- http://www.allfitnessgurus.com
- http://www.myimportexportspace.com
- http://www.starqualitymovers.com
Social media links for Dan Amzallag (only a tiny handful of them):
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/danamzallag
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/moverzfaxllc
- https://www.facebook.com/amzallag.dan
- https://www.facebook.com/danamzallag2012
- https://www.facebook.com/MoverZfaxLLC
- http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Daniel_A_Amzallag
- https://www.youtube.com/user/proaceinternational
- http://www.pinterest.com/moverzfax/
- https://twitter.com/MoverzFax
- http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/660841/dan_amzallag.html
Relevant keywords of reviews and reports of Dan Amzallag others may be searching for:
- MoverZfax (Website movers & moving company reviews/reports)
- ProAce International Moving and Storage LLC (Moving and Storage company)
- ProAce International (Dan's webdsite hosting company)
- ProAce International (business consulting, business publishing, government procurement, social networking media, fitness/nutrition and shopping portal)
- Push-Up Press (Patent fitness related)
- The American Dream: How to buy or start a business using NONE of your own cash (Book)
- Mission Possible: How to Combat Obesity in America (Book)
- Gloateus Maximus: Inside lives of personal trainers (Book)
- 100 Days or less to reaching YOUR ultimate happiness: The Secrets of the Universe revealed (Book)
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4 Updates & Rebuttals
Mark Titov
Texas,USA
Worse Dr. Dan Ever
#2REBUTTAL Individual responds
Mon, January 16, 2017
Report : Dan, this guy is a worse liar ever
Bad people usually come to a bad end.
ProAceintl
Gaithersburg,Maryland,
This editor didn't meet any of our editing guidelines
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Thu, January 22, 2015
We have posted an ad on craigslist to have the book edited for our publishing firm. We have received a tremendous amount of response. Many claimed that they can do an excellent job. We have sent a two pages test to this editor and they have changed a couple of words from the original. They failed to provide a good edit and complained because she wasn't chosen. We hired a more qualified individual for this job and they got compensated. This editor barely did any work and claims that she was cheated. In her resume, she seemed qualified like any candidates out there but after putting her to the test, we realized she wasn't qualified at all. We offered her a different position that was better suited for her but she declined.
It is not uncommon to come across people who can't handle rejection like this so called editor.
Dan
Kat
Orlando,Florida,
Dan Amzakkag is a liar
#4General Comment
Thu, October 30, 2014
Please stay far, far away from Dan Amzallag....He lies and deceives people to his advantage. I recently came across an ad (washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/wrg/4687210946.html ) calling for help to edit a book. Dan Amzallag was the author. As a writer, I wrote him an email stating my interest in the position. This was the beginning of the reply I got:
"I would like to take the time to thank you for sending your information over to us. The response to our ad on Craigslist was overwhelming, to say the least. We have received a tremendous amount of response of VERY talented editors, just like you. We have spent the couple of days to review all the resumes that were sent over to us to determine the best candidate over the 68 interested individuals for the position.
I must say it was a very difficult task because many had great editing experience which added more difficulty for us to choose the right person.
We were, however, able to narrow it down to three top candidates and you were one of them."
I was then asked to edit a (rather lengthy) sample. As I began investing my valuable time into this task, a doubt crept in my mind. What if this was some liar getting his entire book edited by a number of writers in need of work?
Sure enough, I soon stumbled upon a Ripoff report on this site, and then began conducting a small investigation. I sent Dan Amzallag what I had already edited (about a page’s length). He replied he would send it off to his “publisher”. To this day, I’ve never heard back.
I then asked three friends to send him similar emails (1 guy, 2 girls). The guy never received a reply. The two girls did. The first one got exactly the same response (including the “68 interested individuals” and the “three top candidates”) with a different sample to edit. The second girl was also given a different sample, being told that there were not enough qualified applicants for the position.
The ironic thing? The book was about the Law of Attraction– how positive thinking and actions will attract positive things into your life. Looks like Dan Amzallag has some pretty bad things coming his way.
ProAceintl
Gaithersburg,Maryland,
Paid for his service without completing the website Moverzfax
#5REBUTTAL Owner of company
Sat, December 14, 2013
First, Proace Moving and Storage NEVER serviced this customer. It is not related to the quality of our moving services at all. This so called customer cannot show the burden of proof with a Bill of Lading that we service his move.
Second, we paid for a service that was not rendered properly. The website developer never finished the website Moverzfax.com. He deliberately overcharged us for hours that many other developers could have done it at a fraction of the time. He overbilled our company. WE paid over 5000 dollars (we have the proof) for a service not rendered properly. The site has tons of glitches, tons of issues that other company had to correct for proper functioning of the site.
This individual, with names such as Abe, or Hisham Khasa, presently residing in the country of Jordan, and NOT WASHINGTON DC, or ARIZONA as he proclaims to be, has provided a service to repair a site that wasn't functioning properly. He made a few corrections on the site which we PAID for it.
When the site wasn't working right, or was presented with glitches, we ask for repairs and he refused to continue working until the balance was paid (the balance wasn't $7839.33. He overinflated the balance)
He worked on several part of the website which created more issues then we originally anticipated (like getting blocked by other website)
Abe/Hisham Kasha failed to provide us with a service that we paid and that we got overcharged for. He continued with his threat as to dmage the reputation of our company. He purposely knew that our moving services had NOTHING to do with his complaint, yet, continued to post false reviews.
This individual is a website developer and not a customer that we serviced. He over exagerated many of the details and dates on the Rip-off report and continued to do the same.
Many USA companies are using outsourcing to develop their website but I would cautious MANY to do so because of disgruntled people such as this one.
I told him many times that once the website be functioning, we will pay him his due balance, not in the nature of what he claims it to be. All the new website developers are doing a great job completing the site and will properly offer to the whole USA population a unique way to do business with moving companies across North America.
Moverzfax is a Cons8umer protection portal that helps people avoid getting scammed by moving companies, and we are helping North American consumers get the facts about movers before they get hired.
We are sure that this site will revolutionarize the moving industry by helping and eliminating all moving scams. We are here to make a difference by helping others avoid being victimed of unscrupulous movers. Moving companies that are honest and ethical will stay in the industry and the others will disappear. We are definitely optimistic that positive changes are about to come and we hope to have the great support of the community to have Moverzfax.com service everyone looking for a mover.
Moverzfax.com will provide honest facts about movers. Look at it as the Carfax of the moving industry. By having clear information about the mover, you can make a sound decision as to hire them or not.
MOverzfax will facilitate all that.
Thanks for all the support and we hope that this Rip-off report from a foreigner in Jordan is just here to complain for whatever reason that might be and start having himself a life. We feel this complaint is uncalled for and we will not stoop to his level to write a complaint about him, it is not worth our time. If any USA company wishes to contact me regarding his services as a website developer, do not hesitate to contact me. The author of this report made sure to write all my contact information. I will be happy to give you my version of the facts. Many of the facts are not true, besides the ones that we did pay him for his overbilled time for the site.
Thanks again
DAn Amzallag
