Ralph Murrieta Scam Artist Orange County Nationwide

Ralph is very nice, talks a good game and then gets you to give him money. You trust that he is not going to take your money and run. I live in Orange County and was referred by my aunt whom he installed shutters for so he came by my house and we signed a contract in January of 2012 and to this date I have no shutters. I gave him $1800 of my hard earned money to try and spruce up my condo. I am a single woman and have been working on remodeling my condo for the past 4 years. This was one of my final steps. The worst part is he calls you back and lies to your face about a shutter company shutting down or that they are waiting for the shipping crate to get full because its coming from China. Here I am believing his BS thinking that these are circumstances beyond his control until I come to the realization that I will never have shutters...at least from him. If I could find him I would take him to small claims but this guy is too smart for that. He has the intention of stealing your money from the beginning. Please beware and don't lose your money to this man.  The last update from him is that he will check his finances and see what he can do about paying my money back to me.  I will update this report if he comes through on yet another empty promise I've heard a million times.