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Date Posted: 14:22:46 07/23/04 Fri
In reply to: Nikeia 's message, "Re: please help me become an actress" on 17:48:18 04/06/04 Tue

Ripoffreport/EZBC Fraudulent Scheme

The Group of Criminals (Click here to see Criminal Architects) has created what appear to be two beneficial sites for consumers.

First Site

The first Site is Ripoffreport.com, which is a site that encourages unhappy customers and employees to post their complaints on the website. In order to post a complaint the victim must post and address, phone number, and valid email address. This is all to make sure the information is legit the company claims.

Once the Ripoffreport.com has duped the victims into posting a negative report, then the operation begins.

The first thing they do is try to sell the customer a pamphlet on how to attack companies. This book basically advises customers to harass and attack the company, especially to keep posting on Ripoffreprt.com. (Click here to see link for manual solicitation)


The second thing that Ripoffreport does is send emails to the posters asking for donations to help fight legal battles with these companies. They use a combination of guilt and veiled threats. We are being attacked by these companies because we just want to help you the consumer. Please help us; we can barely keep our doors open and our servers running. “Our legal costs will bankrupt us”, they claim. Then the veiled threat; implying that the evil corporations do not want to sue just Ripoffreport, but also the poster of negative information. “We will do everything we can to protect you, we just need money for lawyers”, they claim. (Click Here for a sample of the letters sent out by Ripoffreport.com)

After trying to collect money from the consumer then Ripoff charges a business $25 to respond to a complaint after the fourth response. To keep the responses going Ripoffreport emails every complaining consumer every time a complaint is responded to. This gets the consumers to keep complaining and forces the company to keep responding. If the consumer does not file additional complaints, RipoffReport simply makes some up. This forces the company to pay to respond.

Initially it stopped there and was just a run of the mill penny anti scam run by convicted felon Ed Magedson (He bills himself as “Editor” on the site). He probably wouldn’t have attracted too much attention and could have continued this scam forever, but then they decided to go for the big dollars:

EZBC – Criminal Ed Magedson then joined forces with a group of criminals that formed the EZBC (Click here to see a list and history of the EZBC founders)

The name of the game is now blackmail. The system was designed to extort money from large companies (no longer satisfied with penny anti consumer donations), EZBC and Ripoffreport now targeted the deep pockets.

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ripoffreport and ezbc scam and hate sitegigi10:58:08 08/06/04 Fri
    Re: ripoffreport and ezbc scam and hate siteJake14:47:06 09/15/08 Mon


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