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| Mar 16, 2018 | FTC shuts down crypto Ponzi schemers | The FTC has announced that they’ve issued temporary restraining orders and frozen the assets of a team of three defendants who pitched investment advice as the Bitcoin Funding Team and My7Network. The FTC claims that the defendants “promise... |
| May 30, 2017 | Money manager suing online troll to end ‘malicious’ rants | More On: fraud
Ex-Morgan Stanley adviser ran Ponzi scheme, caused $2M in investor losses: SEC Steve Bannon to be called as witness in 'We Build the Wall' fraud case 'Senior citizen' Keith Hernandez says he almost fell for phishing scam Reti... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | EFF, Public Citizen Enter Legal Battle That Started With Defamation But Is Somehow Now All About Copyright | Copyright is supposed to be a limited-use protection for creative works. The “limited” part went away with endless term extensions and auto-copyright for any creation attached to a “fixed medium.” These days, copyright is the magical cure-a... |
| Nov 25, 2015 | Westlake Financial: Uber’s Shady New Partner | The Uber app. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
Earlier this year, Uber Technologies terminated its relationship with Santander Bank, which provided financing for prospective “driver-partners” who needed a vehicle. The program had come und... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | Australian court holds Google is responsible for linking to defamatory websites | The South Australian Supreme Court this week found that Google is legally responsible when its search results link to defamatory content on the web.
In this long-running case, Dr Janice Duffy has been trying for more than six years to clear... |
| Jul 20, 2015 | Paying $20 to delete your Ashley Madison profile was probably a bad idea | When a British Ars reader went to delete his Ashley Madison account, this is what he saw. reader comments 169 with 119 posters participating, including story author
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| Jun 19, 2015 | A Lesson In How Not To Do A Defamation Threat, Courtesy Of Lawyer Casey Cummings | Oh, the defamation threat letters we see. They are all too frequent. Thankfully, some people know how to respond to them well. This one was found via Popehat and involves NY lawyer Michael Pospis receiving a defamation threat letter written... |
| Aug 28, 2014 | Another Online Retailer Thinks It Can Charge Customers For Complaining; Now Facing Lawsuit In New York | KlearGear’s unprecedented $3,500 charge for customer complaints tossed whatever little reputation it had down the drain and it’s abusive actions earned it a $300,000 judgement when a former customer took it to court. Of course, the company ... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | KlearGear Revamps Website; New Address Traces Back To Scammy Penny Auction Site | KlearGear is on the move! Not content to simply dodge judgments against it by pretending to be a French corporation rather than the variety of remailers it appears to be, KlearGear has revamped its website and given itself a brand new addre... |
| May 27, 2014 | Sex Cams at NASA & Library of Congress, Anti-Piracy Outfit Says | While many content creators believe that taking down pirate links will make their material harder to find, the value of this endless task is often questioned. As content spreads like a virus, links often reappear elsewhere as fast as they a... |
| May 22, 2014 | KlearGear Rep Delivers NEW 'Final' Statement About Company's Legal Battle, Trashes Complaining Customers It Hit With A $3,500 Fee | KlearGear, via Vic Mathieu, apparently likes the hole it’s in, but is still finding it a bit too cozy for its liking. In an amended “final” statement sent to Ars Technica, Descoteaux Boutiques’ (apparently overseas owner of KlearGear) Mathi... |
| Mar 28, 2014 | Pissed Consumer Slaps Back At Company That Filed A SLAPP Suit | Opinion Corporation runs the site PissedConsumer.com — which, if you’re not already familiar with it, does pretty much what you’d expect: allows angry consumers to call out companies that have done them wrong. One of those companies, appare... |
| Nov 18, 2013 | KlearGear Goes Into Social Media Lockdown After It Charges Customers For Posting Bad Reviews | KlearGear, a sort of ThinkGeek for folks who don’t value good web design, is in trouble. The company recently rose to prominence when they charged a customer $3,500 for posting mean social media commentary. After unleashing the righteous an... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | AccelerateBaltimore grad Allovue to join NYC-based edtech incubator | Edtech advocate and entrepreneur Jess Gartner is heading to New York City. But she says we won’t lose the new entrepreneur.
Allovue LLC, the edtech startup she founded that participated in the 2013 cohort of AccelerateBaltimore, has been ac... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | Lawyer Gets Court To Assign Copyright On Negative Review To Him, Then Sues For Copyright Infringement | We’ve written numerous times about the site Ripoff Report from the company Xcentric Ventures. Ripoff Report has been involved in numerous lawsuits from people trying to sue the site for posts they claim are defamatory. Ripoff Report has str... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Author Solutions' Rep: People Complaining About Our Scammy 'Services' Are Engaged In 'Racketeering' | Before we get into this unintentionally hilarious response from an Author Solutions’ rep (via Nate Hoffelder), we’ll need a little background on the company itself. |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Flash Deals Site NoMoreRack Raises $12M, Hits 5.8M Members | Back in July, we caught up with New York-based startup NoMoreRack, a flash sales site that, unlike some of the most popular players in the space, isn’t relying on luxury products or fashion to drive traffic. Instead, the young startup offer... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Mediacom Disconnects and Bans Alleged Internet Pirates | For nearly a decade copyright holders have been sending DMCA takedown notices to Internet providers.
Some ISPs choose to ignore these letters, and others simply forward them to the appropriate subscriber and then that’s that. At least, for ... |
| Apr 18, 2011 | OkCupid Clowns, Then Bans, Arizona Bigot | A concerned user, Paul, wrote in to dating site OkCupid with the following complaint.
“If this site was generated in America for Americans, then why do you have spanish on there? I live in Arizona and im fed up on how everything has beening... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Free Posters! AKA Scamville, It’s Back. | The thing about Scamville is, whenever all the bad press about ripoffs dies down everyone in the ecosystem just jumps right back in. There’s just way too much money to be made by everyone from Facebook on down to the guys actually performin... |
| Jan 20, 2010 | Complaints Paint Snackable Media As A Scamville For Mobile Phones | How is it possible for a company to build a $170 million business selling text-message games on mobile phones? As I wrote in a post on Monday, Snackable Media claims to be pulling in that much revenue selling $10 monthly subscriptions to te... |
| Nov 28, 2009 | Video Professor Tries To Bully Washington Post, Fails | Video Professor continues to be angry that I called them a scam in my original Scamville post. They’ve gotten nowhere reaching out to me directly (more on that below), so now they’ve tried complaining to the Washington Post, which has syndi... |
| Oct 27, 2009 | Intelius Files To Go Public Again. Still A Huge Toxic Scam | Intelius is trying to dip its toes into the public market again. Last year we wrote about their business, which combined for-pay people search information with a post transaction marketing scam. After purchasing people information, users we... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Douche of the Day: Diego Norte/James Brausch | We’ve been getting some spam emails from someone purporting to be Diego Norte offering us exciting notes to post on our blog. These notes include tips on how to cheat on your taxes and how to lure children into vans (I didn’t read the entir... |
| May 30, 2008 | Naveen Jain's Latest Quest For A Trillion Dollar Company May Be In Trouble | Naveen Jain is nothing if not confident in himself. Back in 2000, as founder and CEO of InfoSpace, he famously declared both that InfoSpace was bigger than the internet, and that it would be the world’s first trillion dollar company. More s... |
| May 29, 2008 | Naveen Jain's Latest Scam: Intelius | When serial entrepreneur Naveen Jain left the company he founded, InfoSpace, in disgrace in late 2002, a lot of people thought he would never be trusted by the financial markets again (see this three part series from the Seattle Times that ... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Video Professor Sues Anonymous Critics | If you watch enough TV, you’ve probably come across the commercials for “the video professor” who offers DVD videos teaching you how to do things like use your computer. The commercials involve an appeal from the CEO and founder of the comp... |