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Complaint Review: Mike Maunu - Monterey California

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  • Reported By: Felicia — Tucson Arizona
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  • Mike Maunu 8 Harris Court Suite B5 Monterey, California USA

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I run a small grocery store in Tucson and I was contacted by Mike Maunu of Up Your Visibility.  He told me he could help me "take control of my online presence" with his successful web advertising company.  He told me he could have a website made for me and promote it.  After making more and more payments, this company never produced ANYTHING at all for me.  They just took my money and do not return phone calls.  So I looked up Mike Maunu on the internet and found he has a colorful past of fraud. 

"Maunu served nearly 2 1/2 years of a five year sentence for securities fraud committed in Dallas, TX."  He later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where in 1998 he "was tried on a charge of decetptive trade practices, a criminal misdemeanor, for claiming his Original Laundry Cleaning Ring 'achieves its amazing results through the science of Physics', according to the complaint filed by Grenville Prideham, Deupty AG of the Attorney General's office against Maunu.lasvegassun.com/news/1998/feb/17/lv-companies-immersed-in-controversial-product/

See also: linkedin.com/in/mikemaunu for an example of how this guy can't even promote himself of the internet.  Half of this high-school dropout's little recent startups all have either zero web presence or broken links.  Now the guy is going around posting about helping people save their homes from foreclosure but is about to lose his own in a case against Chase Bank.

You have been warned.  Save your money and stay away from this loser who delivers nothing but hot air.

 

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#4 REBUTTAL Individual responds

THIS IS A HOAX AN EXTORTION ATTEMPT

AUTHOR: Mike - ()

POSTED: Friday, June 20, 2014

THIS IS A HOAX AN EXTORTION ATTEMPT 

This is a hoax and an extortion attempt via emails that will be posted below in retaliation for posted a public document to my Scribd.com account. They have also impersonated me and a case is currently being put together.


As per the terms of this website http://www.ripoffreport.com/ConsumersSayThankYou/FalseReport.aspx

you are being given 30 days to post the canceled checks you allegedly paid to me or my company. This would include my signature and the front and back showing it being endorsed and deposited into a bank. Or a bank wire or some form of payment. Feel free to black out your name and address and any relevant account numbers. We know you have no intention of doing this because we have never solicit business by calling someone on the phones. All of our clients are by referrel only.

This publication is nothing more than a libelous report and your day is coming.

This etortion attempt is also be done to the individual who wrote the letter to the California Supreme Court with a false and libelous posting as wel. We know the name and email of the ring leader as she has already admitting to doing this and was willing to remove these if we remove the public letter that was sent to the court.

This was an atttempt to get my name up high in the search engines in order to cost me money, which it isn't.

They have also posted a link to a newspaper article that is unrelated to the report of me taking money from some lady in Tuscon and not doing the work. However, I hadly think it is relevant especailly since the company I was working for and myself were found not-guilty of this misdemeanor. 

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/1998/mar/12/laundry-product-marketer-gets-clean-bill-of-health/

In addition, I have never been charged or convicted of fraud in any state or federal case.

Again, trying to sensationalize the headline.

They have also stolen my identity and picture and are using it to cause and draw attention elsewhere.

These are also being investigated and there time will come.

 

 

 

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#3 REBUTTAL Owner of company

All Old News

AUTHOR: Mike Maunu - ()

POSTED: Wednesday, June 18, 2014

First of all, it wasn't federal prison.  It was Texas State Prison.  And it was like 25 years ago in the 1980's I got mixed up with some bad marketing guys and took the fall.  The criminal charges in 1998 by the Nevada Attorney General regarding the laundry widget never went anywhere.  See this article for proof of that:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/1998/mar/12/laundry-product-marketer-gets-clean-bill-of-health/

Admittedly the Judge does say in the article that "I also think this Clean Ring is a con" but he's a judge so what does he know about laundry.  And he didn't convict me and complemented me on my smart lawyers.  And THAT was over a decade ago.

I haven't been convicted of anything at all in the last five years, so please don't air your dirty laundry here (no pun intended).  If you want a refund, call and we'll talk about it.  Using sites like this to smear UpYourVisibility.com are not convincing anyone.  In fact, you seem to be driving business to my site.  And people can see for themselves I'm pretty successful.  See what I drive on the site.  YOU can too.  Sign up for a free consultation.

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#2 REBUTTAL Individual responds

THIS IS A HOAX AN EXTORTION ATTEMPT

AUTHOR: Mike - ()

POSTED: Tuesday, June 17, 2014

This is a hoax and an extortion and blackmail attempt for publishing a document written by someone else who has also had an attack launched at her at the same time for publishing a document on Scribd.com about her foreclosure. 

I am giving you 20 days to post copies of the front and back of any canceled checks, bank wires or other of these many payments you claim to have paid me or my company.

 

AFter that we wil procede according to the rules published here:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/ConsumersSayThankYou/FalseReport.aspx

We will then file a complaint in the proper court in Arizone naming the person repsonsible which by the way we have her name because she already confessed to doing this and DOES 1 - 20. Even if you are hiding behind an anonymous profile we know who you are working with and she can take the heat for all your actions.

Everything else you bring up here is BS and the only issue to address is if you were "ripped off"

If you were real you would disclose who you are and these alleged payments. Since you are not and this is all about trying to smear my name you won't.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR: Felicia - ()

POSTED: Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Name in the title is spelled incorrectly.  It is MIKE MAUNU.

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