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Cornerstone Worldwide
129 Hibiya Central Building,
1-2-9 Nishi Shimbashi,
Minato-ku,
Tokyo, Japan 105-003
Tel: +[protected]
Fax: +[protected]
The above company called me in april 2009 and asked me to invest 12, 000 USD in return for profits, which i made, on paper, but never got the money. they made many promises to send my money, but never did. on the contrary they came back to me and asked for more money to 'release' my money. Foolishly, i sent the release fee. They then came and asked for another release fee. can you believe it. now they dont even call me. my money is with them.
hi Escalope,
i havent got my money yet but i am talking to all the relevant financial, governement and law authorities about cornerstone. on FSA, the japanese financial regulatory body, Cornerstonse is listed in the suspected cold callers list. visit it if you havent : http://www.fsa.go.jp/en/refer/cold/index.html
these guys keep asking you for more money. the problem starts when you ask for your money. as soon as i asked for it, they started giving me problems. they gave me stories and made promises which never materialized. Be careful. when i asked them for the profits they said i have to pay 14, 000 USD release fee to get my money which is somewhere in US and that this is US law which was introduced since President Obama came in. i paid the 14, 000 but they didnt keep their promise. excuses again. in November they called me and said that they have recieved my money from the US and is now in their account and they reinvested it. i told them, i dont care what you do. just give me my money back. they said they will. i made it clear that they should not ask me for any more money for returning my money. i have already paid the release fee twice. they agreed...this was Matt Cornish. He acknowledged that my account had been mishandled and they he will see it till the end, till i get my money.
But Matt disappears and Bruce Gamble comes in saying again saying i have to pay a 4000 USD release fee...so you see it just keeps going on and on.
the guy who called me first time and got me to join cornerstone and promised me so much, Edward Taylor, has disappeared. I sent him and the other guys many emails but since they dont reply. when i asked them to sell and return my money, i was expecting over 70, 000 USD based on the then market price. They have caused me a lot of damage.
regds
nmk
Hi Escalope,
how is it going. any news.. did you get any money from them.
they all say they are men of principles but when it comes to returning our money, you can see their true colors. they promise and disappear, dont respond to calls and emails. i sent the money to the following banks :
Euro Bank, Cyprus
CIMB Bank, Labuan, Malaysia
what about u?
i am in the process of reporting them to the interpol http://www.interpol.int/public/mail/send3.asp?send=true&id=info malaysian and tokyo police department. they have taken my money by deceit and lied continuously. despite several emails they have not responded and i dont see any intention of them returning my money. i have informed the central bank here. these guys are not authorised to do business in my country. According to the FSA, they are not even authorised to do business in tokyo.
Involve a lawyer if you can. Attach the lawyers report and file a complaint against them to police of your country, police of tokyo and and the police of the countries where they have their bank accounts. Also send the details to their banks. if you cant get a lawyer, still do the rest. i am doing this.
Remember this is a suspect company on the FSA and im sure banks will be very careful in who they deal with.
they are probably trying to see what you are up to. checking your tone of talk to them. they will come back and try some other tactics to extract money out of you.
hi escalope,
not yet but im trying. i dont get any response from them. im involving police and others in this.
hi escalope,
did they sell your shares. did john moore call you again.
hi guys,
any developments with anyone
hi everyone,
im in the same position as before. all you guys will know by now how cornerstone operates...one guy comes, tries to extract as money as possible, then disappears. after some time another guy appears and the story is repeated. these guys will settle for any amount, like prostitutes. in one case once person agreed to usd 1, 500/- to help me return my money. of course, never heard from him after that. in any case do not send any money to anyone. we have all lost a lot of money and should not throw any more good money after bad money. i think these are ghost companies, fake names, fake everything, not easy to tracke them. of course they have done their homework very well. they seem to be part of a much bigger network. in my last conversation i asked the guy where are you based. he replied : new york. i guess that was a mistake cos all previous guys said they were based in tokyo. anyway they are crooks.
I got a call from the criminal investigation department of my country. They know I am a victim of a financial fraud. They have received a letter from the Interpol investigating this case and have asked me for the details of my dealings with Cornerstone. I shall be meeting them soon to give them the information I have. They will reply to Interpol. Lets see where this leads to but I am happy that these guys are being investigated or even hunted.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
Hi dd124
Yup, you responded to me - many thanks. At least now I don't feel all alone in this mess - little comfort, but some comfort at least.
Alright people, if we ever hope to see justice handed out to this bunch @ Cornerstone, we all need to apply our minds and begin working as a collective. We can start by giving each other our email addresses as communicating through this site appears to be laborious and people don't seem to come back often enough. My address is:
dieselmosquito@gmail.com
Dear Helter,
I got an email and replied today. Believe its you. They can create any story. Do not believe them they are the worst form of human beings on earth. They should all be executed in Chinese style.
Hi everyone!
Also, same problem as everyone else...broke the cardinal rule and invested with this bunch of $@#$% from Cornerstone in 2008. Since then, I have had my account suspended on numerous accounts and have had to continuously pay a reactivation fee. As a result, I have now lost more money than I can afford.
Like PJLS above, in the past week I have been contacted by John Lewis (after +/- 10 months of silence) who says (quote) "all you need to do is open a new account as the old one is suspended and fund it with the minimum trade amount $5, 000.00. I would use a fully hedged stock called (RBY) Rubicon Minerals so to eliminate any down side risk. After this is done your share will be transferred in and sold. Proceeds will be sent back to the same account under your name" (end quote).
Please assist...I will fly anywhere in the world to have a little one-on-one consultation with guys like John Moore et al.
Cheers for now
@ dd124 - I tried mailing you on your mail address listed but still no response - you available?
PJLS
Hi guys!
Looks like I have the same problem as all of you. Last year I made some investments at Cornerstone and I’m exactly on the same situation as you. Last week I had a phone call from a John Lewis (new contact). I ask for his ID and he sent me a company card like these kind of cards that we can do at home with a printer and some paper.
This time they keep talking about these taxes and they told me that I have a solution to get free of it. If I send 10.000USD (because they can’t use the money I have there already) they open a new account, they transfer all the money of the old account to the new one, and then they send me the money back.
Regarding your comments I see that they are not allowed to make business. If this is true they will not pay taxes. It is an offshore company=profit without taxes…
I don’t have any more hope that I will receive my money so I ask for information every time this guy calls me. I will communicate via email each time and I will try to have as much documentation as possible. I will try to have someone’s ID and than I will see what to do...
For now, I send what I have.
Kind Ragards to all
PJLS
Hi Barnaby, from the wording of your last comments, it looks like that you are slightly inclined towards sending the withholding tax. My advise, please do not do this. I am on this forum for quite sometime, I am trying all means to close them down and I will do that. It will be good to share the information. If you want you can send me email on nimko124@yahoo.com.
That's a lie. I have paid withholding tax of some 30% but nothing happens afterwards. Its a technique to change hands from one person to another. Whoever says that you have to pay withholding tax will disappear the day you send them the transfer receipt of funds. Someone new will take over you account.
Just an update. The latest thing is that they will phone you and say that you need to pay the "witholding Tax" on your money that was invested. Once you pay the witholding tax they will send your money back. Any bets that this will happen? In my mind, if any tax is owed, they can cash in the investment, take the tax off and send the balance back.
They are cheaters, stealers, fraudsters. They can do anything and produce any document to convince you to send funds to them. I doubt they are in Tokyo. Does anyone has any idea where they might be?
I also consider myself a victim.
Does anybody have any updates?
keex
I have also been contacted and I am still in touch with them.
Does anyone have any updates?
kkk
To everyone,
Ladylove.501 is asking 1000 USD for information! Yet another scam! be aware!
I see myself in the same situation.
Cornerstone caused me a big damage and I lost my money. In the last conversation they asked for 10.000Drs more to release my funds. I didn’t send it because I realize that it was a scam. They take me 60.000Drs and I’m in a very bad situation because of that. Now, I feel like I have to start everything over again, from zero.
Anyway, what I keep saying is that, they will be in a very worst situation one day. I have a big problem but my god is bigger than that.
Good luck everyone and god bless
PS
(from Portugal)
Hi just to let everyone here know we are in the same situation. They now are stone walling us and refusing to answer any of our calls. If anyone has a method we can follow to close these people down please can they let me know. Another name to add to the list of thieves is Mathew Cornish and Justin Taylor. Justin Taylor supposedly is the "compliance" officer.
These people are committing Fraud and theft and it would seem that they are getting away with it. Is there no body that governs this kind of thing?
Hey ladylove.501 (former admin secretary),
If you were an isider an were working for them in the past, does it mean you are also part of the scam? Why do you want to sell this information? Did you loose any money with them? Any revenge feeling against them or just greed? Don't all scams come out of greed? If you have seen with your own eyes how these people rob others you should feel more empathy for those robbed and not try to bleed them further. Publish what you´ve got or report it to the authorities.
Hi everyone,
I just found all your comments - this is amazing I got exactly the same misleading phone calls and e-mails. Same story as all of you. First payment, then incredible profit – only on paper, then release fee, than one of those thieves (supposedly their accountant) called me to tell me that my account was mishandled and that he will take care of it. When I told him I will not pay in even a single cent then some other “expert” called me. Same story about the Swedish Financial Supervisory etc.
Names John Moore (with his photo with an airplain), Charles Franks, Eric Lynstrom, Daniel Surtees, Bruce Gamble and Michael Ward. All of those guys are nothing else than one BIG TREACHERY and FRAUD. It’s all good with them as far as someone is paying in the money – when you ask to pay out even 1 dollar then problems start to multiply at an incredible rate.
Don’t pay anything to those thieves. I payed in their accounts in Cyprus and Malaysia over 27 000 us dollars and it’s all gone. Don’t do my mistake WARN others. Don’t let them rob any more people!
So you also want to SELL the info?
all of you guys who have lost your money on this company, i can provide you some accurate infos on where you can find them im an insider and a former admin secretary of cornerstone, i wanna sell you all the infos u will be needing to get them in jail and get your money back email me ladylove.501@lycos .com
Hi all, i am in the same situation. I invested a big amount with Cambridge Consulting in 2008 (never got any money back). These guys were eventually taken over by Global International Trading. I send them too some money and still nothing back. Tried to file a complaint online with the Tokyo police but did not succeed? Should I contact the Interpol? I have a feeling that I will never get my money back.
Hi nmk, escalope, anyone any luck or progress?
Hi guys,
Today I was contacted again by one of the Cornerstone Worldwide agents (I don´t even remember his name).
I questioned him about some warnings on the internet like the one here:
http://www.fi.se/Templates/Page____11219.aspx
He said that it is normal that the company is not authorised by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority or other countries' similar official entities because they are an offshore company. If they were to be authorised by official state organisms, they would have to provide them with private data about their customers which is opposed to the concept of offshore.
He didn't ask me for more money yet.
I´ll try to keep these comments updated.
Hello, I have the same story as you have. I am ready to help with any action against them. Please let me know, how I could contact you. I have more names and different bank in Cyprus.
Guys I am in the same boat as you. They are doing exactly the same things with me which they have done with nmk. More money, pre release fee, same names, John Moore, Matt Cornish, E Lynstrom, Bruce Gambles, Brian hayes. Escalope please let us know if you were able to get any of your monies
Hi mmk,
Thanks very much for your comments,
After reading your post and other warning messages in internet I immediately asked these people to sell my shares and give me my money back, but that was two days ago and since then I got no answer. Funny because they were always very fast to reply when they had me to sign any paper for their businesses.
Unfortunately I can not give any more information. Only the supposed picture of this guy John Moore who sent me this image saying "I have an impeccable background and I am a man of principal".
Please let me know if you make any progress with this matter.
I have also been fooled by these people. They convinced me to invest 5000 USD in april 2009. After paying I got no news from them, and just yesterday they contacted me again to say they are going to reinvest my money. This time they didn´t ask me for more money but they will in the future.
I was contacted by
James Rutland
Debbie Martin
Tom Richardson
and now John Moore