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Jeremy Doss contacted me early Thursday morning, 06/09/2011 stating that he was working for a company that bought out I-Fortuity that had gone bankrupt. He noticed that I had lost a lot of money with them and he would like to help me sell my website. He had me pull up a website (Swift Appraisal)to show me how much my website was worth which should between $44-$66,000. He said I should get about 20% more than that. This was when he started saying he needed $16,000 to get the website up to where it should be to sell it. At first he was going to take the fees from my American Express Gold card, but then changed his mind and said that a wire transfer would be better. So I went to CMI which is a copy/fax business to receive some documents by fax from Jeremy. After several hours of not receiving the fax, he suggested that I go ahead to the bank and do the wire transfer of NOW total $17,000. I went to the Bank of America in Safford and did the transfer and then went back to CMI to continue waiting for the fax. He ended up emailing the documents to CMI and I signed them and tried to fax them back to no avail, so had to re-email them back as well. Jeremy was in contact with me constantly all day Thursday. Then he called again Thursday evening around 9:30 PM wanting another $18,000 to help expedite the process of getting the website for sale. So I did another wire transfer online for the $18,000. I tried calling him several times Friday, Saturday, & Sunday. I couldn't reach him. I even called the 800 number he had given me and they had never heard of him. I sent him an email then and told him I felt he was scamming me. He finally called me Sunday evening saying his daughter was in the hospital in serious condition but since we were coming to Phoenix he would meet with us and go over the plan and explain it and answer any questions we had. On Monday, June 13th, contact was difficult until I would text him asking for our money back, then he was calling & texting trying to convince us this was a unique opportunity and would pay off. He then asked us for an additional $15,000 to ad you tube, Google, etc to upgrade the website to prime selling points. So again I sent another online wire for $14,900 because I didn't have $15,000, so he said to just send the $14,900 and he would make up the difference. We were supposed to meet with him for lunch on Tuesday to sign more paperwork--LTD Lic and getting a merchant acct set up--NEVER HAPPENED! We tried to contact him again on Wednesday and he said to contact us when we were done with our doctor appts. We tried to contact him again and same thing-couldn't reach him. Wednesday evening sent him text messages saying we just wanted our money back and that we were contacting the police. He tried calling but had lousy connection. He said he was still at the hospital with his daughter and for us to call him at 9AM sharp on Thursday, June 16th. We called him at 9 AM sharp and no answer, so I text him and told him I tried calling, got no answer and we were done. He called us around 9:30 and said he overslept. He also advised me we were making a big mistake by going to the police because it was going to be worse on us in the long run. He advised he couldn't come up with the $50,000 today. I told him that we wanted the money and he advised me that I needed to reread the papers I signed. The only two papers I signed was a commitment for advertising for $5667 and the other one was a permission for taking the $5667 from our American Express Gold card-which was never done. He also advised us that if he didn't think we could pay our bills by using our Gold Card-which was why he didn't take any money from the Gold Card so we would have it to fall back on for the 90 days he would never have taken the $49,900 cash from us.

We kept trying to contact Jeremy and Virtual Employment by email and text messages,
(have copies of all email messages & text messages can only be obtained by an attorney or law enforcement from my cell phone service carrier) the rest of June and July. We did finally receive a call from Regina Aguilar, Director of Operations of Virtual Employment, stating she wanted to help us. We kept telling her that we just wanted our money back. She could tell we were getting upset with the whole situation and she said she would see what she could do for us.

On August 8th, 2011, we went to the Virtual Employment office in Phoenix, AZ to see what had been done to refund our money. Which we found out, that nothing had been done except that she had given our information to their attorneys and hadn't heard back from them. Ms. Aguilar showed us a couple of clients income sheets showing they had made over $24,000 in one day. We made the comment that would be nice if it was really true. Ms. Aguilar made us a promise and signed a document to that effect saying that she would not ask us for any more money, but would have our internet business fully operational and drawing income by August 15, 2011 and no later than August 19, 2011. She would also see what she could do to help us make our American Express payments that were due and our electric bill which was past due. We gave her the amount that we needed to make those three payments. We kept getting the run around about why we hadn't received the check to make those payments for several weeks. We finally received an email from her stating that the check had been approved. After not receiving anything from her, during a phone call she said it had slipped her mind and she would get it in the mail right then and we should have it
by Monday. We have still not received any check from them for anything.

Every document that Ms. Aguilar had me (Jackie) sign in the office on the 8th of August had the wrong address on it. I told her about it and she said it was OK she would make the needed corrections before she submitted them. When I finally received copies of all the documents that I had signed and she had submitted, the incorrect address was still on all the paperwork. Also, the paperwork that she signed with me agreeing on what her company, Virtual Employment, was doing to get my so called internet business up and going is in breach of what they were supposed to do. When we try to call, we can never get thru to them. Our emails all go unanswered. We have been to their office on two occasions and both times they have promised us financial help to pay our bills that we were unable to pay because Jeremy wiped out our savings. We haven't received any financial help at all. Ms. Aguilar then starts passing it off that the final decision on any financial help was limited and that they could only provide in assisting in the bills that are necessary for everyday living comforts, but that they had paid one of our bills in the sum of approximately $431 or close to that amount. On October 24, 2011, we receive an email from Ms. Aguilar stating that they could not "offer us any financial assistance as it would be a bribe and against the law".

As a result of their underhanded fraudulent way of doing business, they have ruined our credit by causing our creditors to be paid late, we have approximately $2500 in overdraft fees at our bank because we have no money left to fall back on to cover those charges. Our income is only $1495 a month and the money that Jeremy made sure he took was there to help us cover our living expenses. Our prescriptions alone run almost $1,000 a month and as a result, we have both been off our medications for almost four months and we are feeling the effects of not being able to get our medications. My husband has had cancer and I have asthma and other conditions that require medications to keep the diseases in check.