(Reposted from another forum to spread awareness.) Hey guys, Today I want you to inform about the scammer Andre Youkhna, which scammed me for $14,000. Short summary: We have been talking for a long time, Andre felt like a friend to me. I had an Instagram account with almost 800k followers for sale. He had social media clients which each paid $1,000 per month. He would hand over 10 clients to me plus do 2 months SEO, worth $2000 per month. We signed a contract about that. He ended up ghosting me. He lost the clients, wasn’t be able to hand them over to me. He asked for my bank information to pay me. I gave that to him and now he 'can’t pay me, but is showing off expensive watches. He posted a picture with a $185,000 watch. Today he showed off on his Instagram story that he bought another €25k watch, yet he owes me $14,000. https://playerup.co/uploads/db6033/original/3X/7/9/79f18a6c2afb52d68ebd8eeeb7c7a22b3d5975cd.png https://playerup.co/uploads/db6033/original/3X/4/e/4e63ee6c1cbf4323a15416b8743770d2babe3f5c.jpeg Information: Name: Andre Giwargis Youkhna Phone number: +1(818) 568-5622 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreyoukhna Facebook: Log into Facebook | Facebook Instagram: @mryoukhnahttps://www.instagram.com/mryoukhna/user id: 481009816 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mryoukhna 2nd guy on the left: Companies or projects he owned / works on (according to what he said): ING Group Los Angeles, Geneius.io, Deskx.io, Tenxrevenue (Tenxrevenue.com/opt ), orcaly.com Video with him: https://playerup.co/uploads/db6033/original/3X/1/f/1f52eb40cc12fe9ed9360e7667853b723252b84c.mp4 Quora: Andre Youkhna - Quora Background information I have met the guy a long time ago. The first time we spoke was in 2017, when I sold him an Instagram account for around $4,000 via Flipmass. We came in contact and he was interested in more accounts. We spoke further on Whatsapp, which our first message was on 18 march 2018. We talked about IG accounts. In the years he always talked with me about using my Instagram network to use it for project. We tried ecommerce, he told me he was experienced with it and used to make a living off that. It didn’t work out. Andre used to ask me about the accounts I had for sale all the time and was interested. He told me he was making a lot of money with SEO clients. They brought them $40k on monthly base at the time. Andre had 150 employees / contractors at the time (according to what he said). In december 2018 he told me he had 300 contractors/employees. He used to brag he had “nice cars, a nice office & a pretty hot girlfriend”. He used to show me pictures of expensive watches (Rolex, Audemars Piguet). Watch pictures he sent me I told Andre Youkhna I wanted a steady income, other than just selling accounts. I was talking about how I wanted to offer social media marketing to local businesses. He told me he could set up something real quick and try to get some clients for that. We tried, but it failed. He told me he would be a billionaire if he had my accounts (lmao). I t All the conversations between us, made me feel like we were friends. I know that’s a ■■■■ thing to say about someone you only spoke online and obviously I have learned from it. But we’ve made calls, spoke for a long time, etc. It makes me sick he ended up scamming me. The scam So know the part of the scam comes. He wanted a big account to start selling courses on, a podcast, etc. At the time I had a lot of big accounts. One of them was @fantasticshacks. It was for sale at $14,000. I had some more big accounts (in the 500k-1.1m follower range), which I later sold for asking prices. If this account was still mine at the time, I would have sold it for $14,000 100%. So last year I wanted to start offering social media marketing to clients. He had an offer for me. He had clients for social media, which brought in $10,000 per month. He was just growing their accounts. He told me I could get those clients, but he wanted an account from me. We agreed that he would give me clients worth $10,000 per month plus 2 months of SEO for my website (which he priced at $2,000 per month) in exchange for my Instagram account. We signed a contract & I gave him the account with OG email on 24 june. He changed the account niche to luxury account (username is @wolfofstartups user id: 7193414524). Contract details He would hand over the clients to me at 1 july 2019, but he didn’t. He came with excuses, I needed to setup a website, etc. I did everything he asked, but he never came forward with the clients. I kept asking him about the clients. I asked him for updates all the time and at 26 july 2019 he told me his mother got cancer and he had a hard time. He showed me pictures of him in the hospital, with his mother in front of him on a bed. I’m obviously not going to show the pictures, but I can tell you those were real (I’m 99% sure, since he also posted on his social media some time ago his mother passed away). I started feeling uncomfortable contacting him, because he had a hard time and I still saw him as a friend. But still send him messages. Then on 20 october 2019 he told me all the clients weren’t fine with being transferred to me (I don’t know how LITERALLY all of those clients wouldn’t be fine with it, where they earlier were fine with the deal). However, we were months further and I told him I was fine with it, but I just wanted him to be communicate with me. He asked me how much money he had to send me, I told him $14,000 & gave him my bank details. He started ghosting me on Whatsapp. I contacted Andre on Instagram. He only responded when I also started commenting on his Instagram. He asked for my bank details & told me he would send me the money in 2 weeks. That was on 6 january. He started ghosting me again. At 16 january he posted a picture with a Richard Mille on his wrist and that was pissing me off. He didn’t have $14,000 to pay me (according to what he says), but has the balls to post a picture with a $185,000 watch (his words). $185k watch Tuesday I contacted him again, asked for an update on the payment. He ghosted me. On Wednesday I contacted his wife & today Andre messaged me this morning again (probably because of that). Andre: “Sorry man don’t have anything to give you” “Please do whatever you need to do” “And don’t message my family and friends” 14 hours ago he posted this on his story: Initiating he bought a new Rolex Daytona (retail price €28.200, worth way more). Instagram conversation I will do anything to spread this worth about him, to make sure all of his family and friends know he’s a scammer, until I got my money back. Starting here on playerup. I know I am super stupid to fall for his scam, but I was confident he wouldn’t scam me. I have talked soooo much with this guy, it’s hard for me to show me all the conversations. But if you want me to show a screenshot of different messages with him, please let me know and I will add it!
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Hey, I have been scammed by Andre as well. We started work in Aug-Sept and he promised me lots of clients. I do not mind revealing the sames of the sites/clients he told me I will be working on. One of them is http://www.daalaw.com Then we finally got started on SEO projects and we agreed to 50% advance payments each month and the rest on completion and delivery of the work reports. In January 2020 he told me that his month was suffering from cancer and told me that he had spent the client money on her health bills. Then in February when I contacted him again and again he told me that his mother had passed away (RIP). Its now April 2020 and now he does not reply to my messages. He truly owes me $1600 and I'm sure he thinks he has got away with the money and there is no way I can recover this money from him. But I'm going to write about this on every forum and everywhere I can. Information: Name: Andre Giwargis Youkhna Phone number: +1(818) 568-5622 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreyoukhna Facebook: Log into Facebook | Facebook
