HARRY W ROLFES MIKE LAPPINNA, MIKE LINSEY, JOHN SACCO, JOE SALFI, DON MURPHY scammed up-front fees for bogus loan programs CINN., Ohio

My name is Joe Salfi. I did not write the above complaint.  However, my name is
included in the above complaint and I would like to respond.

I got involved with Amazing Business Consultants (ABC, Inc.) in October, 2010.
I responded to an online advertisement for an opportunity to sell the Amazing
Business Consultants business credit line program to folks needing capital for
their businesses.

The program promised $200k - $400k credit lines to business owners, even if
they had bad credit. The upfront fees were low and ABC,Inc. guaranteed all
upfront money if funds were not obtained --- Additionally, ABC, Inc. provided over
25 reference letters from satisfied clients and lending institutions.

I decided to market it and I sold a total of TWO clients the ABC program, both in
November, 2010. By late December, 2010 the ABC program was looking like a SCAM.
I immediately returned all upfront money I had gotten as a result of my two clients
and I contacted FBI agent Laura Busbee in the Massachusetts office.

For the past seven months (January  July 2011), I have done the following:

Turned over ALL information to the FBI regarding Amazing Business Capital, Inc.
and the ABC agent I dealt with John Sacco.

Gotten ABC to refund a portion of one of my clients upfront money they had kept.

Personally repaid a portion of the upfront money from my other client that John
Sacco has kept and has refused to refund.

Continued to fight ABC and John Sacco for every penny my two clients paid them.

The last thing I have done is learned is a valuable and painful lesson.

I am embarrassed to have been apart of this ABC scam. Without my knowledge,
ABC and John Sacco, provided me with fake client references and fake bank
reference letters. As a result, I did not fully investigate the backgrounds of
Amazing Business Consultants or John Sacco on behalf of my two clients.
My clients counted on me to advise them and I let them down, and for that
I was wrong.

I have never conducted any business throughout my career in a deceptive,
unethical or illegal manner  and I won't start now.

The gentleman authoring this RipOff Report complaints is a client-victim of ABC.
He is not and was not one of my clients.

He and I worked together in January, 2011 to uncover the details of the scam.
Unfortunately, while we were working together, we had a disagreement about
how to go about discovering the complete truth about ABC and some of the
senior ABC brokers.

The broker he used to secure his ABC credit line was Harry Rolfes. My understanding
is that Rolfes has not refunded him one dime or helped him recover any money
from ABC.  He is very angry and he has a right to be, but not at me.

I hope he and all of the ABC victims recover all of the monies they paid for the
fraudulent ABC program.  I will continue to fight for that.