Complaint Review: George Fontanills - Optionetics - Redwood City California

'John' wrote a complaint about Optionetics, it's founders; George Fontanills, Tom Gentile and others, I'm sure. A short story follows, to make a point to 'John' and all the rest of us, about any business opportunity. A friend, known worldwide in his field as; 'Mac' was asked to evaluate a Multi-Level Marketing business by his son, a number of years back. Mac had the initial response most of us have; to tell his son this was junk, a rip-off, it wouldn't work and so-on. But, Mac was asked to evaluate the opportunity not give an opinion, so that is what he did. He gave the information kit to the most analytical man he knew, his dad, to look over and check out. Mac's dad told him that; if he did what he was told to do, it would do what they said it would do. So Mac set out to prove if the business would or would not work by following the directions. He didn't do anything but what he was told to do. No analyzing. No secong guessing. No modifying the program. Today Mac has a very large and successful business and as a result lives a very good lifestyle, indeed. So does his son. If any of you 'John's' question the validity of any business; the mature and professional thing to do is honestly investigate and test it. Go ahead. Follow the directions. Do everything they say to do. If you honestly 'follow instructions' and the business fails to work, but not because you didn't try to make it work, then and only then will you have the right to make any comment of any kind. If you fail miserably and the business succeeds.........enjoy the money. By the way; *My MLM business sends me checks when I generate enough product flow to earn them, a few times a year......just as advertised. *Using what I learned from Optionetics, here is where I stand as President Elect Obama polishes his Inauguration Speech: I lost on more trades than I won. I was successful only around 40 percent of the time, but I still made money........just as advertised.

The original post has a only a grain of truth, which is that from 1993-1995 I had a business partner called Brian McCahery and had a floor operation on the AMEX. The truth regarding Mr. McCahery is that: In 1995 I discovered and personally reported to NY Attorney General a fraud committed by my then business partner Brian McCahery. Brian had raised and handled one large investment account. Deceitfully, without anyones knowledge he had also raised and hid additional money from other investors to hide his trading losses. I was concentrating on developing systems and trading my own account. I was totally unaware of his actions which he elaborately and fraudulently hid. As soon as I discovered the fraud I banned McCahery from the office and voluntarily stopped trading on the AMEX. We were not "ousted". In fact quite the reverse the AMEX came under critisism for their lack of controls on McCahery. Independant verfication - search on McCahery and Amex on google for those facts. SIPC insurance repaid all but two of the third party investors in full and the liquidation of the accounts added additional funds to repay the investors. This matter was investigated fully by New York Attorney General, SEC and other agencies. I was fully exonerated of any wrongdoing. It is completely nave to think that I could have raised any defense other than the truth to avoid prosecution. This was McCahery's fraud not mine. Independant verification - search on McCahery on google for those facts. I personally lost millions of dollars to McCahery's fraudulent actions. I wound up the companies to repay the investors as co-mingled funds and the complexity of McCaherys fraud made it impossible to continue business. I was delighted when McCahery was put in jail as it was where he rightfully deserved to be for what he did to me and others. I don't hide the fact nor am I proud of my association with McCahery. I admit I made a huge mistake in choosing him for a business partner. Optionetics is the premier educational business for options education. We are responsible in our claims, use genuine testimonials and offer money back guarantees. We don't use friends, relatives etc. with our testimonials but instead can draw from voluntary submissions from happy customers. It is easy to hide behind these boards and make untrue statements. I don't. Why don't you call me I would be happy to personally verify to you Optionetics claims, my expertise and show you the standard of our education. Independant verification - Optionetics has been written about in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week recently did a long article about us, Reuters, BBC, Barrons, CNBC, Fox etc. cover our work regularly. The only thing you this poster does is to post under a variety of aliases in an attempt to slur my name and discredit the work that we do. If you genuinely know an investor of McCahery's (which I doubt) they would verify that they never met me prior to the discovery of the fraud and were sworn to secrecy by McCahery in his cover-up. That they in fact were the cause of their own loss. So the truth about these posts about me ... is that they are all posted by the same person using aliases. Trying to discredit my life's work with the sickness of not being able to get on with their own life after we divorced. But, if I am wrong and you are a real person don't delay, call me today. You can find the number on our website. You won't call as you dont exist. This site is fantastic as it allows the consumer to vent but the disadvantage is that anyone can make any defamatory statement without any penalty or having to answer to the law. George Fontanills