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Ripoff Report is a private for-profit website founded by Ed Magedson. [1] The Ripoff Report has been online since December 1998 and is operated by Xcentric Ventures, LLC which is based in Tempe, Arizona. [2] In 2023 an Australian judge found the company purports to be a consumer review site but profits from extortive business practices. [3]
[61] [62] The owner of Ripoff Report told The Wall Street Journal that Whitaker had called him in 2015 demanding his website take down negative reports about WPM, alleging, "He threatened to ruin my business if I didn't remove the reports. He [said he] would have the government shut me down under some homeland security law". [63] [64]
Long ago I discovered the site RipoffReport.com. Search Google for many common company names, and you'll often get a Ripoff Report page high in the list of results. At first I thought that it was ...
Websites shut down by the U.S for violating intellectual property rights include Napster, [9] [10] [11] WikiLeaks, [12] [13] The Pirate Bay, [14] and MegaUpload. [15] In 2014, the United States was added to Reporters Without Borders (RWB)'s list of "Enemies of the Internet", a group of countries with the highest level of Internet censorship and ...
On 19 January 2012, the United States Department of Justice seized and shut down Megaupload.com and commenced criminal cases against its owners and others. The lead prosecutor, Neil MacBride , had formerly served as vice president, Anti-Piracy and General Counsel, of the Business Software Alliance , where he oversaw global anti-piracy ...
Playpen was a darknet child pornography website that operated from August 2014 to March 2015. [1][2] The website operated through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously. After running the website for 6 months, the website owner Steven W. Chase was captured by the FBI. After his capture, the FBI continued to run the ...
Exit scam. An exit scam is a confidence trick, con job or fraud, perpetuated under the guise of a legitimate business, that ends when the originator absconds with the funds contributed by participants. [1] When a business entity rug-pulls and stops shipping orders while receiving payment for new orders, it could take some time before it is ...
A ripoff (or rip-off) is an grossly unfavorable financial transaction. It originated as slang that has entered into standard English usage as a business term. [ 1 ] Usually it refers to an incident in which a person is overcharged for something, or receives goods or services not of the standard expected for the price.