Computer Genie

This person/​business owner is Deepak Randhawa.
He advertises on craigslist as I. T Solutions with the same photo that is in this Unilocal listing.
His advertised phone number is 510−878−4692
He is a scam artist and I want to prevent him from doing this to others.
He posts on Craigslist stating computer repair and upgrades, and include a posting of a 1 year warranty on his work.
In an exchange of emails I can provide we agreed for him to come to my home.
We agreed for him to install windows 8 and office 2013 on my pc and, thru parallels, my two mac computers. He said for $ 160 he would give me install codes for the operating systems and the office program.
I said I had $ 120 in cash and could give him a $ 40 check which my cousin would give him when he finished the work. I had to leave.
He said all his work has a 1 year warranty.
We agreed.
After a time, he came out to my cousin and said all was installed.
When I came home I found the windows 8 on my main computer, a Mac Pro, did not work.
Calling him he said it must need to be installed on my administrator window, saying «it is not my fault and it is not your fault». I left the administrator password.
I guess the 1 year of the one year warranty runs out in 2 hours. I also found no code/​key for the office 2013 and Windows 8.
There was another side job I asked if he could do, which he never got to but that would have been more and was fine to skip.
In the exchange of emails he said he would come by and fix it.
I told him he could skip the other job.
He said on January 6^th he would call me before 11:30 to make the appointment to fix.
January 7^th I told him he did not need to do the other job, just fix what he had started. No response.
I asked him to not cash the check I gave him. No response. The check was cashed that day, immediately.
A week went by and on January 13^th I told him I would contact law enforcement if he did not complete the job.
Following that email he said he would send me a licensed 8.1 pro and office ads with licenses that I could install myself.
I said that would be agreeable, and gave him the address to mail the CDs and license to.
On January 21 I texted him that nothing had arrived.
He said he would ship them out Saturday morning with tracking number and confirmation. He said he thinks he wrote the address on the paper wrong, asking me to provide it again.
I provided it again, and pointed out that 4 texts before, the same address appeared in our exchanges clearly.
I have heard no reply.
I want to prevent this from happening to anyone else.
Most people are honest. This person is not.
I would not let him into your place of business or home.