Takaaki Kato - 20 years old in 2017 Fredericksburg, Virginia Stole $180 Under False Pretense To Provide Translation Services Fredericksburg Virginia

I paid him to translate from Japanese. And to make a long story short, he never did the whole translation. He translated only about 3 1/2 pages but he knowingly led me to believe that he translated all 15 pages and took payment for translation of all 15 pages. Because I did not understand Japanese, I did not realize until after I paid him that he only translated 3 1/2 pages but took knowingly took payment for 15 pages. I contacted him repeatedly and asked him to return my money to which he only replied that his phone died. He didn't agree to return my money. I think he was trying to say that the translation was on the phone that died and that he would have to translate the 12 pages a second time since his original translation was lost because his phone died.  I repeatedly asked for my money back and he has refused to give my money back and has refused to provide the translation that I paid him for.  He should have been honest and told me that he didn't translate all the pages. But he wasn't, and he should not have taken my money in exchange for translating 15 pages when he only translated 3 1/2. Bad bad bad bad character -- someone who knowingly takes your money after deceiving you into thinking that he provided the service for which you paid.