Complaint Review: Michael Kennedy - Los Angeles California

I received a call from Michael Kennedy from La Jolla offering a profitable internet marketing business that the company would set up promising an 80/20 split.  The catch? Set up a lead funnell-double opt-in leads he called it. All I had to do was purchase 20,000 leads at $1 each through Fresh and Qualified a lead company in LA. I suspect that Kennedy and his cohorts own the lead company.  I was to set up a bogus website to sell Garcinia Cambogia, a weight loss product popularized by Dr. Oz.  They did actually eventually set up a website, but it was totally useless. There was a sign-in place for visitors to get a newsletter, but that link went nowhere and they never told me how to set it up. Fortunately I did not follow up with them. Prior to discussing costs with me, they asked me detailed questions about my financial status and credit card limits. I then spoke to Jack Ryan, one of Kennedy's assistants. He stated that his team would set up everything for me and I had to send Kennedy a cashiers check for 20% of your profits as payment after the initial launch with an ROI of an average of 8%. This sounded pretty wild at the time, and I unfortunately bought into it.

For the next couple weeks, I worked with his "team" to get ready for a big launch on December 4, 2014. They helped do my website, get set up with AWeber for autoresponse etc.  Michael asked meif I had a lead funnel but I didn't have any (I said I only had facebook/twitter leads). He said I would need to purchase them thru freshandqualified.com at $1 each, and that they generally don't take orders under 20,000. He explained "leads" were better than "traffic" as the conversion rate was much higher. I couldn't afford that, but maybe I could do 10,000. He then made "special arrangements" with this company to get me that "low amount" because he had a "good relationship" with them. I Fedexed several cashiers checks to Fresh and Qualified over a period of about two weeks.  Little did I know that this was a total scam. On the launch date his team sent me a CVS file with the leads, and my "campaign manager" Jack Ryan took me through a step by step process to get set up with Zicara as the email blaster. After the first launch nothing happened.  There were no purchases, no commission, nothing. Mark Navi told me it was a problem with the cover email letter which I chose from a list of 10 letters.  Another red flag.  If this program was so good, why did they need to rewrite the emails?

Michael Kennedy, who has stated he owns 15 cars, said I needed a "dedicated server" relaunch. He just "happened" to have an expert in email marketing named "Brian Jacobs" visiting that day who might be able to help me out. Jacobs came on the phone and said he would comandeer my campaign, that he had years of experience making millions of dollars. He also had a "relationship" with Fresh and Qualified, and he would get me "fresh leads" and use of their direct server which normally cost "millions of dollars." He would also get a high-end copywriter at $500/word to rewrite my advertising copy, but would only "save" my account if I did all this. The copywriter and the the server would cost another $10,000.  I said I'd think about it.  That's when I started to dig further than my initial research and found information about these sleazaballs on ripoff report and other places.

Mark Navi then contacted me to setup up another campaign which I realize now was totally bogus and had no chance in hell of success.  These guys are slick!  Michael then called and said that all of these articles on ripoff report and other places were written by a disgruntled customer who wouldn't sign her name.  Well I am signing my name. It's Wayne Salvatore.

As if to add insult to injury, Michael Kennedy said he'd come out of retirement this once to teach me several money making systems over a period of several months.  He wanted another $10,000 so I said no.