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Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray sued Akron-based NSA Technologies LLC and the three men who operated the company, accusing them of bilking consumers through work-at-home schemes.

The suit says the company, which also used the name Home Job Placement, advertised numerous work-at-home and self-employment opportunities. The suit says the defendents used phony testimonials and falsely claimed to have helped more than 16,000 people find opportunities to work at home.

Consumers – some of whom paid hundreds of dollars apiece – didn't get the services they paid for, the suit said.

Once consumers paid, they received a warning that if they disputed the charges with the bank, they would be reported to an Internet consumer blacklist.

The suit accuses Mark W. Jenney of Akron, Victor J. Bierman III of Broadview Heights and Vincent E. Fisher of Copley of multiple violations of the state's consumer sales law.

The Akron Better Business Bureau said it had received 238 complaints about the company.

Attempts to reach the three were not immediately successful. The company's Web site and phone number appear to have been disabled.

Jenney posted on a blog that he is retiring from internet marketing and turning his efforts to charity.