You might of heard of Eric Francis Coppolino as the news reporter who is caught up in the #metoo movement
Eric Francis Prior Article
Here is a link to another article
Eric Francis Coppolino #metoo article
So anyways one day we get a email out of the blue asking us to develop a new system that he can use for his planet waves website. We didn't really heed the warnings about this guys past and figured that we would give him a chance.
We built him an application that will allow him to change IP addresses and domains to his email list. Than convert millions of records in his database into the new system and build an online membership software to hook into the mailing list software.
After about 4/5's of the way through the project. Eric wanted me to hook in a credit card processor onto my in house webserver and perform some other fixes. Than he had me sign all these papers like he was going to hire me on as a full time developer. At this time I discovered that his old developer issued me a certificate in which was issued from a non-trusted entity. So I didn't think it would be a big deal to request that he buy a security certificate from a trusted source like godaddy. Because the one I was issued from the guy from Russia did not validate.
At this time I informed Eric that this particular certificate will not be used on my web server and because its such a big deal to change it. We will need to move it to another webserver. At this time Eric failed to pay for an entire weeks worth of work and still owes us $1250. I'm not exactly sure what the scam was that Eric and his friends from Russia were trying to run on our servers, because I stopped it before it happened. As they gave me a pile of 320,000 email addresses that clearly were not subscribers to their horoscope website. They gave me a security certificate that did not validate and wanted me to hook it to a credit card processor.
However, it was very clear that the need to be able to switch out domains and IP addresses on the web server. Had all but good intentions. If someone don't want your email than you shouldn't be changing ips and domains to send them in anyways.
Than Eric tries to call the police and tell them that he gave me money for a website and I disappeared. When the reality is that I went back and forth working with this guy on the project for 2 or 3 months. He is just desperate because he know that I know he was trying to run a scam and make it look like I did it. However, I've been programming for 15 years and have seen it all so it didn't work out for him. Of course I have a pile of code and work that I did, plus a non disclosure that he had me sign after I discovered he was running a scam. I tried to find evidence that he wasn't running a scam. However, once he was aware that I knew he was up to a scam, he could pay our invoice. Causing us to lose $1250 for working an entire week for this guy.
So I would be very careful of this guy. It's not that he's smart its that he thinks he's smart. Just not smarter than a programmer. They had people from Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine trying to hack my server. So I had to simply remove the mail server so they could not use it for what ever scam they were trying to set me up on.
At this after all the bs I've had to deal with in regards to Mr. Coppolino I have decided that its time to file a report. As we believe that Mr. Coppolino has probably pulled similar scams in the past and word needs to get out there before there are more victims. This is not the entire story because I don't really have time to write about it, however I would be interested in hearing from anyone else scammed by mr coppolino.
(((REDACTED PER TOS))) He also released to me the phone numbers of his victims I'm not sure what for but I have an email from Mr. Coppolino giving me the emails sent from his victims.
So Mr. Coppolino is a writer and will probably write a bunch of BS. But you know what. It's been 9 months since this happened and Mr. Coppolino is still trying to stalk me and I am about tried of this guy. I don't care if I do honest business but I need to make sure that clients aren't trying to run scams. Mr. Coppolino and his friend from Russia Anatoly Ryzhenko are running some type of scam. I can't say exactly what it is but based on the pieces of the software that we built, I would say some type of Phishing scam. So that he can target and scam his customers. I do honest business and will not be a part of Mr. Coppolinos scam and thats all there is too it.
Planet Waves Reviews
You might of heard of Eric Francis Coppolino as the news reporter who is caught up in the #metoo movement
Eric Francis Prior Article
Here is a link to another article
Eric Francis Coppolino #metoo article
So anyways one day we get a email out of the blue asking us to develop a new system that he can use for his planet waves website. We didn't really heed the warnings about this guys past and figured that we would give him a chance.
We built him an application that will allow him to change IP addresses and domains to his email list. Than convert millions of records in his database into the new system and build an online membership software to hook into the mailing list software.
After about 4/5's of the way through the project. Eric wanted me to hook in a credit card processor onto my in house webserver and perform some other fixes. Than he had me sign all these papers like he was going to hire me on as a full time developer. At this time I discovered that his old developer issued me a certificate in which was issued from a non-trusted entity. So I didn't think it would be a big deal to request that he buy a security certificate from a trusted source like godaddy. Because the one I was issued from the guy from Russia did not validate.
At this time I informed Eric that this particular certificate will not be used on my web server and because its such a big deal to change it. We will need to move it to another webserver. At this time Eric failed to pay for an entire weeks worth of work and still owes us $1250. I'm not exactly sure what the scam was that Eric and his friends from Russia were trying to run on our servers, because I stopped it before it happened. As they gave me a pile of 320,000 email addresses that clearly were not subscribers to their horoscope website. They gave me a security certificate that did not validate and wanted me to hook it to a credit card processor.
However, it was very clear that the need to be able to switch out domains and IP addresses on the web server. Had all but good intentions. If someone don't want your email than you shouldn't be changing ips and domains to send them in anyways.
Than Eric tries to call the police and tell them that he gave me money for a website and I disappeared. When the reality is that I went back and forth working with this guy on the project for 2 or 3 months. He is just desperate because he know that I know he was trying to run a scam and make it look like I did it. However, I've been programming for 15 years and have seen it all so it didn't work out for him. Of course I have a pile of code and work that I did, plus a non disclosure that he had me sign after I discovered he was running a scam. I tried to find evidence that he wasn't running a scam. However, once he was aware that I knew he was up to a scam, he could pay our invoice. Causing us to lose $1250 for working an entire week for this guy.
So I would be very careful of this guy. It's not that he's smart its that he thinks he's smart. Just not smarter than a programmer. They had people from Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine trying to hack my server. So I had to simply remove the mail server so they could not use it for what ever scam they were trying to set me up on.
At this after all the bs I've had to deal with in regards to Mr. Coppolino I have decided that its time to file a report. As we believe that Mr. Coppolino has probably pulled similar scams in the past and word needs to get out there before there are more victims. This is not the entire story because I don't really have time to write about it, however I would be interested in hearing from anyone else scammed by mr coppolino.
(((REDACTED PER TOS))) He also released to me the phone numbers of his victims I'm not sure what for but I have an email from Mr. Coppolino giving me the emails sent from his victims.
So Mr. Coppolino is a writer and will probably write a bunch of BS. But you know what. It's been 9 months since this happened and Mr. Coppolino is still trying to stalk me and I am about tried of this guy. I don't care if I do honest business but I need to make sure that clients aren't trying to run scams. Mr. Coppolino and his friend from Russia Anatoly Ryzhenko are running some type of scam. I can't say exactly what it is but based on the pieces of the software that we built, I would say some type of Phishing scam. So that he can target and scam his customers. I do honest business and will not be a part of Mr. Coppolinos scam and thats all there is too it.