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From a lawsuit -- “Ripoffreport.com, Xcentric Ventures L.L.C., and Ed Magedson operate a website, www.ripoffreport.com. that engages in selling victims of reports on ripoffreport.com a program called the Corporate Advocacy Program (CAP) for $7,500 plus a month monitoring fee of $100 a month for a minimum period of three years. According to Ed Magedson he has forty salesman telephoning victims of the reports on his website to purchase this CAP program. “

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Dear Fellow Victim of RipOffReport.com

Dear fellow victim of RipoffReport.com.

Please don't keep your misery to yourself.  Tell everyone you know of the harm that RipoffReport.com (ROR) has had on your life. Please contact your Congressman, Media, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), US Attorney General, FBI, your State Attorney General. Please be active and communicate with Authorities and most importantly other victims of Ripoff and encourage them to do the same. Moreover, we are collecting petitions to submit to the Google and Yahoo to De-list Ripoff since the site business model is Extortion (RICO Act) and their main business is to promote Defamation of innocent people and businesses. They proudly state on their website that they have been successful to have 550,000 reports against businesses and put at least 100,000 businesses out of business. They are backed by dishonest and hungry lawyers. We must act and put our energy and force collectively at the same time, but timely manner. If youa re able to volunteer, please contact me at the information below. By coming together on this matter, a change can occur. By speaking up, we may be able to prevent others from being harmed.  Whether you've been harmed or you  know someone who’s been harmed, If you really want to make a difference please write a letter and make a phone call.  Last year, my personal life and business was wiped out by RipOffReport.com.  We are not guilty of the false accusations made by unknown accusers. We lost our business, our good name and everything we have worked so hard for.   People we employed have lost their jobs, the people we were eager to do business with now won't, they don't know what to think or believe.  The odd thing is that this was all easily disproved.   The man responsible is Ed Mageson of RipoffReport.com and his cohort hungry dishonest attorneys. He is not interested in truth or proof that these are false allegations.  He wants money. Why?  He says he'll post a message under the slander against us  and put his seal of approval on it which is a small icon of a businessman with a halo above his head saying that we are a good company after all.  You can imagine how insulting this is when we have done nothing wrong.  He said, "Not even the Pope himself could remove these posts."  Who is this man, a self-appointed authoritive? According to him, he is a 70's disgruntled street vendor. Our story is true and unfortunate, but not isolated as Ripoff boasts more than 550,000 people and companies harmed and counting. This Ripoff company clearly has a business model of Defamation and Extortion and this is just not right and should not be tolerated by anyone. We also hold our Government and Police Power accountable by not protecting innocent Citizens and tax-payers who pay their salaries and pensions, not Ripoff. We must tell our Government and Police power (also the Media), that they are not entitled to their hefty retirement since they were unwilling to aid and protect innocent citizens and businesses.They bear the duty to protect our civil rights.

By sharing this message with others, maybe You can help make a change and keep this from happening to other business owners and their families. Please be active ................ friends, family, co-workers and anyone and everyone you know.  Tell them to pick up the phone or a pen and help make this Defamation and Extortion company (Ripoff) stop.  If businesses are the "lifeblood of America", Ed Mageson and his Ripoffreport.com are Dracula draining our nations lifeblood. Your voice may be the lone voice to stop this madness.  Won't you please try to help make a difference?  We have nowhere else to turn.  The very people you may be protecting may turn out to be others in your own family.  Ed Mageson's website claims Billions of viewers.  With more victims every day, there is no time to loose.  Please help us.Please Make a call.Send an email.Write a letter.Forward this to a friend.Share this story.Protect yourself.Let your representatives know that this is not alright with you.  Let them know it’s not okay to continue allowing businesses in America to be harmed especially in this terrible business climate.  When businesses are gone who will pay the wages, perks and pensions of government?  Who will hire employees if businesses are being harmed and driven out of business by a Ripoff company?  Why won't our government step in to protect the people of America from those who are busily involved in Extortion and Defamation?  Let them all know it’s time for a change in the law NOW.  It may not help our situation but it can’t hurt and it may help someone else avoid what we’re going through.God Bless You for your help!Federal Trade Commission600 Pennsylvania Aveenue, NWWashington, DC  205801-877-382-4357https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/www.ftc.gov===========Contact Your Senator:(upper right hand corner of webpage)http://www.senate.gov=================Contact Your Congressional Representative:(Upper left hand corner of webpage)http://www.house.gov/==================Atty General Eric HolderU.S. Department of Justice950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20530-0001 http://www.justice.gov/contact-us.htmlTo his office 202-514-2001Fax [phone]

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'However ROR will not remove the posting even at the poster's direction.'

I saw that on the ROR site as well but the fact that they say that means they pretty much screwed themselves over. Why? federal copyright law. By law anyone who creates an original work (in this case the text of a ripoff report) automatically owns the copyright to that original work. They legally have full rights to it unless they sign over ownership to someone else. Which means they have the legal right to determine what is done with said post. You have the legal right to have a anything you posted removed at your request. If a site refuses then they violate federal copyright law and can be prosecuted for copyright violations for it. I've seen this happen on several websites in the past and ROR would be no different. Though this of course applies only to an ROR that you yourself write. Their only 'defense' to this would be if they attempted to claim that such postings were their property via a clause in their TOS agreement. Which would be worse for them becase to do so they would have to ownership and thus responsibility for every post on their site. Thus they could face legal action.

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It seems to me that the real ripoff here is “Ripoff Reports” & Ed Magedson. They claim to be advocates of good business practice yet post anonymous claims against any business as they are received. No verification, no investigation, no justification. They go so far as to admit this on their main page. “While we encourage and even require authors to only file truthful reports, Ripoff Report does not guarantee that all reports are authentic or accurate.”

In 2011 a US judgement labelled the website’s business practices as ‘appalling’:

“The business practices of RipOffReport, as presented by the evidence before this Court, are appalling. RipOffReport & Ed Magedson appear to pride itself on having created a forum for defamation. No checks are in place to ensure that only reliable information is publicized. RipOffReport retains no general counsel to determine whether its users are availing themselves of its services for the purpose of tortious or illegal conduct.

Even when, as here, a user regrets what she has posted and takes every effort to retract it, RipOffReport refuses to allow it. Moreover, RipOffReport insists in its brief that its policy is never to remove a post. It will not entertain any scenario in which, despite the clear damage that a defamatory or illegal post would continue to cause so long as it remains on the website, RipOffReport would remove an offending post.”

If you feel that you have been victimized by this or some other scam here are a few places that you can go. All are US government sponsored. http://www.ic3.gov – The Internet Crime Complaint Center (FBI and NW3C Partnership). http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Internet_Fraud.shtml – US Government internet fraud. http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud/internet_fraud/internet_fraud – FBI. http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm – Department of Justice site.

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It seems to me that the real ripoff here is  “Ripoff Reports” & Ed Magedson. They claim to be advocates of good business practice yet post anonymous claims against any business as they are received. No verification, no investigation, no justification. They go so far as to admit this on their main page. While we encourage and even require authors to only file truthful reports, Ripoff Report does not guarantee that all reports are authentic or accurate.

They further state that they never remove reports, presumably even when those reports are false, slanderous, or just plain dishonest. If a user has a change of heart, RipOffReport will not allow them to remove that they wrote. Yet a quick search on Google shows several companies that guarantee ripoff Report removal, for a fee. Could these companies be somehow related? That would be extortion as I see it? Against federal law as I understand it. Could that be the reason the Ripoff Report server is located in Turkey? They do have a PO Box in Tempe, Arizona, perhaps a mail forwarding service of some type? I do not know. Smells funny to me.

Ripoffs by ripoffs.com seem to be quite a growing concern, so much in fact that their web page even has a section on why it would be foolish to sue them. Let me add my own opinions: 1. It is hard to sue a con man. They often have the angles figured out. It is their occupation. 2. It is impossible to sue a PO Box. 3. It's very difficult and expensive to sue someone in Turkey if you live in the USA.

If you feel that you have been victimized by this or some other scam here are a few places that you can go. All are US government sponsored. www.ic3.gov - The Internet Crime Complaint Center (FBI and NW3C Partnership). www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Internet_Fraud.shtml - US Government internet fraud. www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/fraud/internet_fraud/internet_fraud - FBI. www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/reporting.htm - Department of Justice site.

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RipOffReport.com Scam

In 2011 a US judgement labelled the website’s business practices as ‘appalling’:

"The business practices of RipOffReport, as presented by the evidence before this Court, are appalling. RipOffReport & Ed Magedson appear to pride itself on having created a forum for defamation. No checks are in place to ensure that only reliable information is publicized. RipOffReport retains no general counsel to determine whether its users are availing themselves of its services for the purpose of tortious or illegal conduct.

Even when, as here, a user regrets what she has posted and takes every effort to retract it, RipOffReport refuses to allow it. Moreover, RipOffReport insists in its brief that its policy is never to remove a post. It will not entertain any scenario in which, despite the clear damage that a defamatory or illegal post would continue to cause so long as it remains on the website, RipOffReport would remove an offending post."