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Complaint Review: Emerald-Bridge - Christian Oksanen - Internet
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Emerald-Bridge - Christian Oksanen
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Emerald-Bridge - Christian Oksanen Beware! The Emerald-Bridge could lead you straight to jail! Internet
I had been loooking hard for a work at home job and was contacted by Emerald-Bridge to be a low level accountant, getting 10% of profits as a reseller of internet advertising. I did not pay anything to the company for start-up costs, so I believed it to be legitimate employment. I set up a legitimate business with both a business account and a merchant services account with Authorize.net. The entire process took several months to complete so I felt confident that there was no scam involved. I felt even more comfortable, since I was using a trusted internet merchant services provider; Authorize.net.
Once "sales" began, I started getting phone calls from people saying that their credit card was being used fraudulently. (I had entered my home phone number with merchant services instead of the supplied "customer service" number, in error.) When I contacted my supervisor, Christian Oksanen, regarding the phone calls reporting abuse of credit cards, his response was that we needed to get the phone number fixed and that further receipts should be sent to "customer service".
I then decided to randomly look up phone numbers for several "customers" to see if these calls were simply errors in the system or if there was any internet marketing service being sold. None of the charges were legitimate and none of these people had ever even heard of the company.
I immediately closed the merchant service gateway and filed both police and FBI internet crime report. However, I am still getting phone calls (still not one legitimate charge) and the customer service is just a mailbox that gets no response (even when contacted by the merchant services provider).
I'm certain that my identity has been stolen and I have been used to run a very large credit card scam. Now Emerald-Bridge is threatening me with legal action (via my e-mail, of course) and I'm out the $250 I spent to set up the business as well as another $250 to Authorize.net.
I have taken every step I know to protect my personal and banking information and when people call, I let them know that their card number has been stolen,but am very concerned that local police and FBI are too busy to adequately investigate the fraud.
Is there anyone out there that can advise about what I should do next? All money was immediately returned to Authorize.net, I never transferred any of it to either my personal account or to Emerald-Bridge.
Mule
Anywhere, Utah
U.S.A.
Once "sales" began, I started getting phone calls from people saying that their credit card was being used fraudulently. (I had entered my home phone number with merchant services instead of the supplied "customer service" number, in error.) When I contacted my supervisor, Christian Oksanen, regarding the phone calls reporting abuse of credit cards, his response was that we needed to get the phone number fixed and that further receipts should be sent to "customer service".
I then decided to randomly look up phone numbers for several "customers" to see if these calls were simply errors in the system or if there was any internet marketing service being sold. None of the charges were legitimate and none of these people had ever even heard of the company.
I immediately closed the merchant service gateway and filed both police and FBI internet crime report. However, I am still getting phone calls (still not one legitimate charge) and the customer service is just a mailbox that gets no response (even when contacted by the merchant services provider).
I'm certain that my identity has been stolen and I have been used to run a very large credit card scam. Now Emerald-Bridge is threatening me with legal action (via my e-mail, of course) and I'm out the $250 I spent to set up the business as well as another $250 to Authorize.net.
I have taken every step I know to protect my personal and banking information and when people call, I let them know that their card number has been stolen,but am very concerned that local police and FBI are too busy to adequately investigate the fraud.
Is there anyone out there that can advise about what I should do next? All money was immediately returned to Authorize.net, I never transferred any of it to either my personal account or to Emerald-Bridge.
Mule
Anywhere, Utah
U.S.A.
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Deaf
MIAMI BEACH,Florida,
U.S.A.
mule's story is true
#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sat, December 08, 2007
HELLO MULE AND OTHERS, I AM SO SORRY FOR THE PROBLEMS, I USED TO BE EXEMPLOYER OF THAT COMPANY EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM THEY TRICKED ME TOO I JUST LEARNED FEW DAYS AGO THAT THIS WAS A FRAUD AND SCAM COMPANY, THEY STOLE ALOT OF CREDIT CARDS OF PEOPLE, I HAD CONFRONTED THE MARKET DEPT NAME ROBIN JANSSON, AT FIRST SHE TRIED TO LIED TO MY FACE ON EMAIL BUT I AM DEAF AND TOO EXTREMELY INTELLEGENT AND THE PEOPLE AT DATA PROCESSING COMPANY WHO SET UP AUTHORIZE.NET SUSPECTED THAT ROBIN IS LYING TO US, I HAVE MANY EMAILS EVIDENCES IN MY STORAGE, I HAD RESIGNED FROM THE COMPANY, MY WEBSITE THAT SHE AND HER COMPANY EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM HAD SET UP WAS CALLED KELLEYEMPIRE.COM KELLEY EMPIRE INC I AM NO LONGER OWNER OF THAT ANYMORE HOWEVER I HAVE ALREADY SET UP MY NEW OWN HONEST WEBSITE AND IS DEVELOPING THE WEBSITE, AND I AM PRESIDENT AND SOLEPROPERTIEOR OF THAT NEW WEBSITE AND HAVE A NEW MECHANT ACCOUNT COMPANY ALREADY CONTRACT FOR MY NEW WEBSITE AND NOW I NEED SOMEBODY WHO WILLING TO JOIN ME AND WORK WITH ME AND MAKES GOOD HONEST PROFIT. I PROMISE TO ANY OF YOU WHO WERE CONNED BY ROBIN JANSSON AND HER COMPANY EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM IS TO BE PAYING PRICE SOON, THE BEST REVENGE IS TO MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE AT WEB.COM AND SIGN UP WITH A MERCHANT ACCOUNT COMPANY NAME CHARGE.COM IT IS VERY GOOD COMPANY AND WHEN YOU ARE READY WITH YOUR OWN COMPLETE WEBSITE THEN TAKE THE EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM'S VICTIMS CUSTOMERS TO YOUR NEW WEBSITE AND GIVE THEM GOOD PRODUCTS AND MAKES MONEY ENOUGH TO BUY OUT EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM AND FIRE ROBIN JANSSON THAT IS OUR BEST REVENGE WAY. ANYONE WANT TO JOIN ME IN WORKING WITH ME AT MY NEW WEBSITE THEN ALL ARE WELCOME AND CRUSH EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM BY PROVE TO THEM THAT WE CAN DO IT IN HONEST WAY AND BE SUCCESSFUL WEBSITE BUSSINESSMEN AND WOMEN, I CHALLENGE ALL OF YOU WHO WERE USED BY EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM TO JOIN ME AND BRING IT DOWN BY STARTING YOUR OWN WEBSITES AND CHALLENGE EMERALD-BRIDGE.COM BY TAKING THEIR CUSTOMERS AWAY, THAT IS THEIR WEAKNESS AREA, WITHOUT CUSTOMERS THEY ARE OUT OF BUSSINESS SOONER. ANYONE WANT TO CONTACT ME ABOUT HOW TO BRING THESE COMPANY DOWN, CONTACT ME AT (((email redacted))) AND TALK TO ME. YOUR FRIEND PHOENIX EARL JOHN **** CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report.
