More Information on Scandalous Sites
Please be careful not to believe everything you read on the Internet. Rip Off Report's Founder, Ed Magedson has now been convicted but is no where to be found. RipOff Report is an example of a very popular complaint site and lawsuits continue to be brought against the company for allowing anyone to write anything:
Did you know that a good amount of the activity on these sites are either shakedown artists or complaints initiated by competition? Help us with our efforts at Ticketbust.com to put an end to erroneous and misguided complaints by not clicking on the negative search results and postings of these sites. The more clicks they get, the more popular these scandalous sites become. We want to annihilate these scandalous sites from the legitimate listings of Google and other search engines.
For a good explanation of how these sites work (specifically pissedconsumer.com), please read this article posted October 2008 on pissedconsumer.com and how scandalous they are, while continuing to rank highly with the search engines.
- This is nothing new! Way back in 1995, the owner of a highly respected modeling agency was hit by a 'complaint' (which turned out to be posted by a competitor) and was told by the complaint site owner that the only way the owner of the modeling agency could have the malicious complaint posting removed was to pay the complaint site owner a large sum of money and then a monthly fee for them to monitor future postings! [Read the full story here
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb313997.htm]
- You would think that Google and other influential Internet groups would have abolished these type of sites years ago, yet the fight continues. Here is an excerpt from a posting dated 01/30/08:
- PUBLIC WARNING: Ed Magedson of RipOffReport.com is a WANTED criminal that extorts individuals that have posted on RipOffReport.com and legitimate companies for money and he may be operating one of the biggest criminal enterprises ever created on the Internet and it is being perpetrated by a group of criminals with a track record of fraudulent activity. For more ground breaking information on how he operates his fraudulent scheme, please visit The Bureau of Ethical Internet Commerce, www.ezripofflawsuit.com and www.bad-business-rip-off.com. [For the full story, click here Rip Off Report Founder, Ed Magedson-Internet Extortionist.]
- Another similar site is listed as follows with the Better Business Bureau at http://www.dc.bbb.org/report.html?national=Y&compid=1038533
- UPDATE: Google has banned pissedconsumer.com as of 10/28/08! Maybe progress is in the works! [For the full story, click here].
- Click here to view a judgment from 11/26/03 in favor of another victim, Alyon Technologies, Inc.. Read closely as there are a number of other similar sites cited in the judgment. Click here for information on the subsequent July 2003 'contempt of court' charge for not complying with the judgment.
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