Brian McKee of EmerchantMiddleman And His Partners.
Complaint 225051 Details

I was contacted by telephone in October 2011 by a Bryan Davis of Emerchantmiddleman who explained how i could make a large amount of money by using a website they would make for me to name and said i could make$250,000 to $1,000,000 with their help. He then wanted me to allow them to charge two of my credit cards for $15,000 each for advertising the website all over the world as he said. I said absoloutly not. He then suggested a smaller advertising program for $9000 and I still refused. After several days i got a call from Chris Buckingham who said they would give me a guarantee that if I did not make the $9000 back in a year they would do the same advertising program again and repeat it as many times it took to get my original investment of $9000 back. Then as he explained to me I should put part of my profit back into repeated advertising to enlarge the business.They then e-mailed me such a guarantee which I have numerous copies of printed at the time. I then let them get $9000 from my American express card. I was then given a website which I named slotownmerchantservices since I live in San Luis Obispo, CA and natives call it SLOTown. I was given a back office as merchantmadness.info allegedly to keep track of my website hits which i check daily from then until August of 2012 when it all dissappeared. From Gebruary 2012 when I received two checks totaling just over $300 from Bill Stark who was my contact. After that repeated telephone calls were not returned. I sent a personalletter to them and received an e-mail from Victoria Wilmy who apologized and said I had fallen through the cracks because Bill Stark was sick and had resigned. I called at least twice weekly from then until August 2012 and talked to Christina Nelson, JIm Reagan, Robert Olsen,Cynthia Thomas,Ezra Williams,and Frank Goodman. They all said due to the recession business wasslow and i should be patient. When I pointed out my back office showed sever hundred hits and some of them should be working the assured me they were working to close the deal on them. In August 2012 I wrote a letter to them accussing them of scamming me and ithen received a graph report from Michelle Mitchell showing 132 leads had agreed to emerchanmiddleman proposals and I should soon be getting some money as agreed $500 for each merchant who signed up and 1,5% of their receipts for as long as they kept the middleman credit machines.132 x$500= $66,000 so I was elated. However that was my last contact. When I called I got an answering machine and left numerous messages which were never returned. Now to add insult to injury when i went to American Express to attempt to get the $9000 back emerchantmiddleman sent a falsified document to AMEX showing me signing it on November 10, 2011 and with different wording than the one I signed and printed copies with my signature on the invoice November 9,2011. Obviously I would not sign two invoices for$9000 with different wording on two different dates. Their copies are forgeries. I am preparing sets of documents proving my case as I was a Labor Union organizer for twenty years before retirement and handled thousands of grievance and numerous arbitrations. I plan to give copies of the package to the news media so possibly some investigative reporters will help me out. I suggest the long list of others scammed by emerchantmiddleman do likewise and put a stop to the outright internet theft which is rampant nationwide. My next door neighbors father was scammed of fifty thousand dollars through the internet but it was undiscovered until he died. This has gotta stop!