That guy is absolutely horrible. I’m talking about the proprietor of Blue Systems International, he goes by Michael Joseph and Michael Johnson, his real name is Youssef Maged. I hired him for a simple background check on a person (computer records only).
He got me to pay him in advance, so I sent him a check. On the following day after my check cleared the bank he told me that he had only received it and still had not deposited it. Then I couldn’t get a hold of him for about two weeks. Then, after several emails from me he set a time to talk with me on Skype and didn't show up. Another week later he still wouldn’t turn in the background report. In the mean time, I wrote to the California regulator in charge of private investigators. In response, he threatened to contact the wife of the person I’m trying to investigate and disclose to her that I hired a private investigator to investigate her husband.
I demanded several times that he either return the money or turn in the report, which he said he had at least 10 days ago. When I emailed him that I was going to write a bad review on him, he threatened to sue me.
I was also scammed by this PI: Youssef Maged aka Michael Joseph
He used the confidential information I hired him to investigate to blackmail the subject of my investigation. This PI cannot be trusted at all. I fell for his low price but paid a multiple afterwards.
I hired Youssef Maged / Blue Systems International in March of 2014 for a background report on a person. He wanted me to pay him in advance and refused to accept a credit card. I trusted him and sent him a check for $250. Once he received the payment he stopped answering my phone calls and emails. After about two weeks without hearing from him and after many attempts to contact him, I filed a complaint to the California Department of Consumer Affairs / Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, the agency that licensed him as a private investigator. In response, he presented them a bogus “invoice” in which he claimed to have spoken with me more 15 times and billed me $150 for those conversations (I’ll try to attach it). He called it “Consultation. Quantity: 2, Rate: $75". Also, in that invoice he claimed to have provided some report on the subject. However, in reality he only sent a useless list of addresses of the subject’s wife that I never wanted nor asked for. In the end, he didn’t provide any services and refused to refund the payment. He’s been running away from me ever since.
Eight months after I filed the original report on him, I had already forgotten all about that idiot, but I got an email from the BBB with the baloney response he filed with them in response to my original complaint. So I couldn’t resist filing my response to his response. It should be noted, that in his latest response he changed the narrative and now claimed that my request was illegal, that’s why he didn’t perform any work and, supposedly, he reported me to the FBI and said "you are more than welcome to verify”. So below is my response to his latest response:
Youssef Maged, a self-proclaimed “honest muslim” and the woebegone proprietor of Blue Systems International, provided a totally different explanation to one Ms. Abby Boxwell, a staffer at the California Dept. of Consumer Affairs (the licensing agency for private investigators) 8 months ago when this issue of him accepting my money and not providing any services first came up. At that time, he claimed to have provided “consulting” services which I had never ordered, nor received. In his made up, bogus invoice sent to her, he explained his services as “Consultation, Quantity: 2, Rate: $75, Amount: $150” and he also claimed to have provided a background report on the subject but in reality he only sent a useless list of former addresses of the subject’s wife, which I did not need and never asked for.
In his childish and silly explanation he claims that I tried to investigate "an American subject in order to blackmail and for a possible hit”. That sounds like a line from an old spy movie. I’d like to know how he came to this conclusion. To the best of my knowledge, it is not against the law to hire private investigators to conduct the investigation that I wanted him to conduct. Even if it were, he should’ve simply refused it without accepting any money. He claims to have reported me to the LA FBI and says "you are more than welcome to verify”. Yes, I’d like to verify that! What is the name, office phone number, the extension of the FBI agent that he reported me to, and the case or reference number? (central office number posted on the FBI website with extension, not bogus cell phone or internet numbers, please). I’m still waiting for his answer to this question.
Beware of this crook! Before he got my money he described himself as an “honest muslim” and he practically swore in the name of Allah that he would get me the background report that I needed. After my check cleared, he disappeared and later claimed that my request was “illegal” so he gets to keep the money and doesn’t have to do any work.
He had a whole lot of fake 5-star reviews on yelp which I flagged and yelp agreed with and removed them. Same goes for Google+ and other review websites.
His Company's Names (he keeps changing them slightly to hide from bad reviews):
Blue Systems International, Private Investigator Blue Systems, Blue Systems Investigations
Names and Aliases He Uses:
Youssef Maged, Michael Joseph, Michael Yousef, Maged Youssef, Michael Johnson, Mike Joseph, Mike Johnson, MJ.
Blue Systems International extortionists MJ and Keith Gooselaw
Michael Youseff (aka MJ) and Keith Gooselaw of Blue Systems International are professional scammers. These "Private Detectives" pretend to work on your case while sucking as much money out of you as possible without really doing any work. . If you refuse to pay them the unearned money they threaten to take you to court and thereby expose the details of your private investigation in open court. These "Private Detectives" are given a license of trust by the State of California to conduct private investigations and they use the private matters of your investigation as leverage against their clients to extort money from them. Their business is criminal. BEWARE of them! If these thieves already scammed you, contact BSIS and report them.
I almost hired these people, but reports here and elsewhere saved me. I called about a straghtforward issue. The cops told me it was a crime, but were honest that their detectives would not have time to do the interviews which would guarantee a successful prosecution.
For sure, Blue Systems was dodgy about who I was speaking with and what actual experience he and his people had. Bottom line, a young patrol cop knew more... so, despite Blue System's massive web presence, their claims of experience seem bogus.
Blue Systems International Reviews
That guy is absolutely horrible. I’m talking about the proprietor of Blue Systems International, he goes by Michael Joseph and Michael Johnson, his real name is Youssef Maged. I hired him for a simple background check on a person (computer records only).
He got me to pay him in advance, so I sent him a check. On the following day after my check cleared the bank he told me that he had only received it and still had not deposited it. Then I couldn’t get a hold of him for about two weeks. Then, after several emails from me he set a time to talk with me on Skype and didn't show up. Another week later he still wouldn’t turn in the background report. In the mean time, I wrote to the California regulator in charge of private investigators. In response, he threatened to contact the wife of the person I’m trying to investigate and disclose to her that I hired a private investigator to investigate her husband.
I demanded several times that he either return the money or turn in the report, which he said he had at least 10 days ago. When I emailed him that I was going to write a bad review on him, he threatened to sue me.
I was also scammed by this PI: Youssef Maged aka Michael Joseph
He used the confidential information I hired him to investigate to blackmail the subject of my investigation. This PI cannot be trusted at all. I fell for his low price but paid a multiple afterwards.
Scam. Beware. Do not hire. Do not pay in advance.
Summary: DO NOT HIRE, NEVER PAY IN ADVANCE.
I hired Youssef Maged / Blue Systems International in March of 2014 for a background report on a person. He wanted me to pay him in advance and refused to accept a credit card. I trusted him and sent him a check for $250. Once he received the payment he stopped answering my phone calls and emails. After about two weeks without hearing from him and after many attempts to contact him, I filed a complaint to the California Department of Consumer Affairs / Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, the agency that licensed him as a private investigator. In response, he presented them a bogus “invoice” in which he claimed to have spoken with me more 15 times and billed me $150 for those conversations (I’ll try to attach it). He called it “Consultation. Quantity: 2, Rate: $75". Also, in that invoice he claimed to have provided some report on the subject. However, in reality he only sent a useless list of addresses of the subject’s wife that I never wanted nor asked for. In the end, he didn’t provide any services and refused to refund the payment. He’s been running away from me ever since.
Eight months after I filed the original report on him, I had already forgotten all about that idiot, but I got an email from the BBB with the baloney response he filed with them in response to my original complaint. So I couldn’t resist filing my response to his response. It should be noted, that in his latest response he changed the narrative and now claimed that my request was illegal, that’s why he didn’t perform any work and, supposedly, he reported me to the FBI and said "you are more than welcome to verify”. So below is my response to his latest response:
Youssef Maged, a self-proclaimed “honest muslim” and the woebegone proprietor of Blue Systems International, provided a totally different explanation to one Ms. Abby Boxwell, a staffer at the California Dept. of Consumer Affairs (the licensing agency for private investigators) 8 months ago when this issue of him accepting my money and not providing any services first came up. At that time, he claimed to have provided “consulting” services which I had never ordered, nor received. In his made up, bogus invoice sent to her, he explained his services as “Consultation, Quantity: 2, Rate: $75, Amount: $150” and he also claimed to have provided a background report on the subject but in reality he only sent a useless list of former addresses of the subject’s wife, which I did not need and never asked for.
In his childish and silly explanation he claims that I tried to investigate "an American subject in order to blackmail and for a possible hit”. That sounds like a line from an old spy movie. I’d like to know how he came to this conclusion. To the best of my knowledge, it is not against the law to hire private investigators to conduct the investigation that I wanted him to conduct. Even if it were, he should’ve simply refused it without accepting any money. He claims to have reported me to the LA FBI and says "you are more than welcome to verify”. Yes, I’d like to verify that! What is the name, office phone number, the extension of the FBI agent that he reported me to, and the case or reference number? (central office number posted on the FBI website with extension, not bogus cell phone or internet numbers, please). I’m still waiting for his answer to this question.
Beware of this crook! Before he got my money he described himself as an “honest muslim” and he practically swore in the name of Allah that he would get me the background report that I needed. After my check cleared, he disappeared and later claimed that my request was “illegal” so he gets to keep the money and doesn’t have to do any work.
He had a whole lot of fake 5-star reviews on yelp which I flagged and yelp agreed with and removed them. Same goes for Google+ and other review websites.
His Company's Names (he keeps changing them slightly to hide from bad reviews):
Blue Systems International, Private Investigator Blue Systems, Blue Systems Investigations
Names and Aliases He Uses:
Youssef Maged, Michael Joseph, Michael Yousef, Maged Youssef, Michael Johnson, Mike Joseph, Mike Johnson, MJ.
Phone Numbers: (714) 592-8000, (858) 750-8887, (407) 999-7715, (800) 901-1360, +201064117073
Addresses (current and former):
335 N. Brookhurst St. Suite G-3, Anaheim, CA 92801
1930 S Rochester Suite 104, Ontario, CA 91761-2346
1505 Dupont Ave, Suite D, Ontario, CA 91761
1040 S Mt Vernon Ave, Suite G-303, Colton, CA 92324
2038 Camino Dr, Escondido, CA 92026
Websites: www.nowpi.com, www.22pi.com, www.22law.com, www.backgroundcheckdr.com, https://www.facebook.com/MYPRIVATEDICK
Email Addresses: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
His California Private Investigator License Number: 28286
His Registered Process Server #1523
His Skype ID: redsealawyers
His twitter: @Redsealawyer
PI License Information:
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=28286&P_LTE_ID=651
Blue Systems International extortionists MJ and Keith Gooselaw
Michael Youseff (aka MJ) and Keith Gooselaw of Blue Systems International are professional scammers. These "Private Detectives" pretend to work on your case while sucking as much money out of you as possible without really doing any work. . If you refuse to pay them the unearned money they threaten to take you to court and thereby expose the details of your private investigation in open court. These "Private Detectives" are given a license of trust by the State of California to conduct private investigations and they use the private matters of your investigation as leverage against their clients to extort money from them. Their business is criminal. BEWARE of them! If these thieves already scammed you, contact BSIS and report them.
Do your homework first
I almost hired these people, but reports here and elsewhere saved me. I called about a straghtforward issue. The cops told me it was a crime, but were honest that their detectives would not have time to do the interviews which would guarantee a successful prosecution.
For sure, Blue Systems was dodgy about who I was speaking with and what actual experience he and his people had. Bottom line, a young patrol cop knew more... so, despite Blue System's massive web presence, their claims of experience seem bogus.
Good job
Punctual, professional, and friendly. Goes out of her way to help her client and is willing to do whatever needs to be done