"One rose for Michael J Jackson" charity regroups after members were scammed.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012Raising Our Voice
This is a call to action. We must find answers to our questions and concerns regarding the funds that were raised to immunize underprivileged children. Every effort has to be made to bring the culprit who stole these children's chance at receiving life-saving vaccines to justice. Any chances of recovering the funds that have been stolen depends on us as a group reporting this crime that has been committed in the name of Our Beloved Michael.

There's nothing that can't be done, if we raise our voice as one!
~Michael Jackson~


Paypal: If you used Paypal to make your contribution to the Immunization Project with One Rose for Michael Jackson, please report to their Compliance center.

Email: Compliance@paypal.com

Include the following information or as much of it as possible when you make your phone calls and write your emails:

An explanation of what has occurred. Try to be brief. Please try to refrain from using insults or offensive language towards Sofie in your email.
Include Sofie's full name, both maiden and married: Sofie Strandberg and Sofie Jansson
Include the email address Sofie used to collect the PayPal donations: OneRoseForMichael@yahoo.se
Provide them with your name and PayPal account email.
Inform them of the amounts you donated. The dates you donated and then provide them with the "Unique Transaction ID#" for each donation.
Include a link to One Rose for Michael Jackson's page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/112633555419436/
Paypal: If you used Paypal to make your contribution to the Immunization Project with One Rose for Michael Jackson, please report to their Compliance center.

Email: Compliance@paypal.com

The agent I spoke with encourages as many members to email them as possible. The higher the volume of emails, the faster they'll respond. It usually takes anywhere from 24-72 hours, but again, the more emails the receive, the higher the potential for rapid response.

Not only is this the first step to reporting this to the proper parties, but it also serves as a method of getting our complaints on record quicker.

Members have already begun receiving responses and the most promising of replies are ones that indicate that a higher volume of complaints will render greater potential of the matter becoming a top priority for investigation.


UNICEF Sweden: As of now, it is understood that UNICEF Sweden has put forth every effort to get in contact with Sofie Strandberg regarding the missing donation, but they have been unsuccessful. Still, continued communication with UNICEF Sweden has proven that the more people report this matter, the better the chances of it becoming a higher priority for investigation. We need to get our claims and reports on file for Interpol and Swedish authorities to have a reference point for their investigations.


Per Westberg-Deputy Executive Director/Vice generalsekreterare
Phone: +46 8 692 25 00
Direct +46 8 692 25 05
Mobile: +46 708231606
Email: pwestberg@unicef.se

Email: Alexandra.aquist@unicef.se



A response one of our group members received from UNICEF Sweden:


UNICEF USA:
Email: integrity1@unicef.org
Phone: 1.800.FOR.KIDS

Interpol: The email I sent to Interpol upon receiving an email from them suggesting I forward all information to them to provide to Swedish authorities can be read here.

Email: ipo.rkp@polisen.se
Reference #: IP-2011-031526 (please include this in your email to Interpol).


Local Swedish Authorities:

Mayor Camilla Brunsberg
Phone: 011-46-455-30 30 01.
Mobile: 011-46-709-31 30 01.
Email: camilla.brunsberg@karlskrona.se

Mats Lindbom – second to the mayor.
Phone: 011-46-455-30 30 02.
Mobile: 011-46-708-79 52 82.
Email: mats.lindbom@karlskrona.se

Josephine Lindstrom – Asst to the Mayor.
Email: josephine.lindstrom@karlskrona.se

Local Police Department in Sweden
Phone: 0046 77 114 14 00
Email: rikskriminalpolisen@polisen.se
Email: rikspolisstyrelsen@polisen.se

Internet Fraud Email: itbrott@rkp.police.se
For English Speaking: http://www.polisen.se/en/Languages/Startpage/

Any and everybody who donated to this cause must raise their voice...if not for the injustice, than at least for the children who have been cheated out of a disease free childhood!

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
~Edmund Burke~
 
Re: Warning!!Something is wrong with "one rose for Michael J Jackson" charity

I'm really not clear as to what happened? Is this the same group that collected money to send roses to FL for Michael's birthday?
 
It´s the same group,
Fans donated money to vaccinate children and Sofie collected them.
Unicef was supposed to get them but they don´t know something about the money and it seems like Sofie is hard to find.
Here´s a blog about it


Greed Destroys - LOVE SURVIVES


It is with great sadness...

That I remove / rewrite / update this post on my blog.




"Earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need,
but not every person's greed"

This post was made originally to support a cause "One Rose For Michael - Vaccinate the Children for Michael." I felt this was an amazingly awesome and worthy cause! Some thing so beautiful, something that fully honored Michael! Fans from all over the world donated to Sofie Stranberg from One Rose for Michael Face Book Page to raise money in Michael's name for UNICEF. I gladly supported and donated personally and asked fans from all over the world via my blog to support this cause in honor of Michael Jackson's 53rd birthday, August 29, 2011.

Sofie Stranberg from One Rose for Michael told us she was collecting donations to vaccinate children against disease all over the world via UNICEF. We were asked to donate just $2 per vaccine per child. Fans everywhere sent in their money and now it is gone, Sofie is gone and the children who desperately needed these vaccines will not get them. Nothing has been given to UNICEF, not one cent! In fact UNICEF has never heard of Sofie Stranberg or One Rose For Michael or the cause we were supporting.

Sofie had told us that we had raised enough money to vaccinate 5353 children. We don't even know if that is true at this point. All the fans who joined in the effort know is at least $10,000 has vanished because of greed, lies and selfishness. The very thing that stalked Michael his entire life is still here dogging his legacy of LOVE. I am beyond disappointed and very angry. I am angry at myself because I rarely ever donate to MJ Fan causes. I generally donate directly to organizations and charities. That way I know my money is going exactly where I intend it to go and receipts are provided for record keeping.

I apologize to each and every person who read my blog and donated to this cause. We were all duped. We were all lied to. My prayer is that the authorities track down Sofie and get the money back and it will finally go to UNICEF and the children. However since she has not been heard from since Nov. 17th and no one has been able to find her, not online, nor by telegraph or phone, or at her home, the chances of that are very slim.

Again I apologize for ever having promoted this cause. We must not allow the greed and dishonesty of a few to discourage us from reaching out with out hearts and wallets to help the children and other worthy causes. Michael was relentlessly besieged by liars and greedy scam artists from all angles his entire life. He never let their evilness dampen his spirit of caring and LOVE for the needy and hurting. We must not let this dampen our spirit of caring, but just learn from this and move on. Be wise in our donations and efforts to help others.

If you still would like to donate and know without a doubt that what you donate will truly help the children here are two links that will take you directly to beautiful, well known and established, trustworthy organizations: UNICEF and World Vision.

UNICEF - Home Page
http://www.unicefusa.org/?utm_campaign=MS - Brand&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=MSN&utm_term=unicef

World Vision - Adopt a Child Home
https://my.worldvision.org/

http://mjbliss.blogspot.com/2011/07/one-rose-for-michael-vaccinate-children.html
 
Re: Warning!!Something is wrong with "one rose for Michael J Jackson" charity

This is really awful to abuse so many people's trust
 
Re: Warning!!Something is wrong with "one rose for Michael J Jackson" charity

The roses for Michael donations were not compomised only the imunization donations
and it was the Roses for Michael org that brought this to fans attention about what happened
as far as the immunizations donations go. They have removed Sophi from the group. and directed
members who to contact about their donation. just as this blog above

Roses for Michaeal has removed that member (Sophi) and are carrying on with new leadership as far as I know.
That was the last I heard anyway ..
 
Re: Warning!!Something is wrong with "one rose for Michael J Jackson" charity

The important thing is that fans who have donated for children to be vaccinated should report it as it says in the first post.
 
Re: Warning!!Something is wrong with "one rose for Michael J Jackson" charity

Thank you Qbee & Mist, as @MJJCLegacyTeam Project follows one rose for Michael & they follow us as well.
souldreamer7
 
Re: Warning!!Something is wrong with "one rose for Michael J Jackson" charity

I hope its clear for most people by now, but I'd like to try to explain it just once more.

I'm one of the new admins on the newly reformed One Rose for Michael J. Jackson group. We reformed our group and modified our name after Sofie Strandberg from the original One Rose for Michael Jackson stole over $10,000USD from our group. She was the only admin on the old rose group page and as a means to protect us from having out concerns and reports being deleted, we created the One Rose for Michael J. Jackson group page so that members would have somewhere to keep updated with the investigation involving Sofie's theft.

As far as the roses, it was never actually Sofie handling the roses for June, but instead it was my co-admin Robyn who was truly organizing the roses and collecting the funds for the roses...Sofie only took credit for Robyn's efforts.

Long story short, we regrouped because much of the group had decided that we would NOT allow Sofie's betrayal ruin June 25th and taint the beautiful collection of roses that each sends out to Michael on that special day.

We've arisen from the ashes and we will make things right if not for the members who have placed their trust in Robyn and I, then for the love and honor Michael and his legacy deserve.

I assure you that in this new group, transparency is a huge part of everything we do. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

OneRose4MJJ@gmail.com

BTW, quick note, the twitter page OneRose4MJJ is ours...it was first created as OneRose4MJ, but after the fiasco with Sofie, I immediately changed the username to reflect our new name and informed fans that OneRose4MJJ is NOT affiliated with Sofie Strandberg or her group page One Rose for Michael Jackson.
 
I have changed the title to reflect what happened. I think it was causing confusion.
 
Thanks everyone because like I said above I tweet for @MJJCLegacyTeam Project on Twitter and we both follow each other there as well as I have posted photos of the beatiuful roses on our Twitter pictures timeline - and while this was first announced on twitter in the MJFam/MJ twitter community the image below was still in the top 4 photos on our LPTwitter page - so I was concerned that fellow tweeps would take (the gossip as the gospel) Thanks to you all for clearing this.
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:heart:
souldreamer7
 
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