The Mob and The Protection Racket
Looking up "protection racket" on Wikipedia, we find that "a protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a powerful entity or individual coerces other less powerful entities or individuals to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase protection services against various external threats."
If you've ever watched The Godfather movies, or the HBO series The Sopranos, then you're familiar with the standard extortion racket used by the mob, where they will "protect" your business in exchange for weekly "protection money." And of course, as an extra incentive to small-business owners, if they do NOT pay up, then goons visit their store, terrorize the staff, break the windows, maybe pour gasoline and light a match.
If you're a fan of mafia tales, go to Wikipedia and look for either "protection racket" or "extortion racket." You'll find out all about The Black Hand and its operations going back to the 1800s. The widely known tenor Enrico Caruso was at one point terrorized by this gang; he got a letter demanding $2000. Despite the fact that he forked over the $2000, he was still intimidated to pay up another $15,000! After he saw the cops over this, some arrests ensued.
Scambook: the Protection Racket, Online Version
At the present, a modern-day mobster is shaking up the small business: It's called Scambook.com. This ultra-devious outfit, hardly surprisingly being operated out of President Obama's former residence of Chicago, perpetrates the online type of crushing store windows unless business owners fork over regular protection money. Weirdly, the Scambook scam actually comes with a crooked reputation. To wit, Webutation.com condemns them through a warning against them, the BBB cites them for not being accredited, and it also hits them with an F rating. Finally, the BBB even goes so far as to put up an actual "alert" against this website.
Scambook: The Free Community
Scambook poses as a free community service. This means that anyone (yes, anyone, without any proof, validation or authentication!) can write a negative review on a business at Scambook.com. This of course throws ethics and accountability out the window, and allows competitors to mudsling each other, and allows any angry customer to write fake reports on a business unchallenged.
But Scambook.com is a business. It's about money. It charges businesses $500 a month for the right to contact (via a form) the originator of the complaint. So a business needs to commmit to an expense of $6,000 a year just to be able to communicate with those complaining. Needless to say, email forms are an automated technology, so Scambook.com spends hardly any money at all and ends up making a delicious profit off of desperate business owners aiming to repair their damaged reputations.
Scambook injures reputable businesses
On the Scambookscam.com site, a business owner explains their experience with Scambook. Damaged by the slanderous reviews, said business attempted to fix the problem, yet Scambook protested against taking away the complaints even when the issue was resolved!
Scambookscam.com additionally reveals how Scambook opposes the posting of complaints if businesses keep paying them $500 every month. The irony is that Scambook suffers from a horrid rating from the BBB, but it passes judgments on other sites.
Scambook suicide
Back on March 24, 2012, a lady indicated that Scambook's falsehoods drove her spouse to take his own life. Scambook preyed on his business and put up a humongous amount of libelous reviews of it, causing the spouse to lose the business and his family to lose its residence. Back in January of 2102, said business owner committed suicide.
Mafia guys fall hard!
Gangman Lewis "Scooby" Rodden was thrown in the slammer with his pals for employing violence and threats on businesses. Bad guys will eventually go to jail!
Class action suit
Presently, there's a Scambook class action suit forming against Scambook.com. Upward of 200 complaints have already been collected. If you've been harmed by this site, then send an e-mail to scambookhurtme@hotmail.com. A law practice from Chicago is handling the complaints.
Looking up "protection racket" on Wikipedia, we find that "a protection racket is an extortion scheme whereby a powerful entity or individual coerces other less powerful entities or individuals to pay protection money which allegedly serves to purchase protection services against various external threats."
If you've ever watched The Godfather movies, or the HBO series The Sopranos, then you're familiar with the standard extortion racket used by the mob, where they will "protect" your business in exchange for weekly "protection money." And of course, as an extra incentive to small-business owners, if they do NOT pay up, then goons visit their store, terrorize the staff, break the windows, maybe pour gasoline and light a match.
If you're a fan of mafia tales, go to Wikipedia and look for either "protection racket" or "extortion racket." You'll find out all about The Black Hand and its operations going back to the 1800s. The widely known tenor Enrico Caruso was at one point terrorized by this gang; he got a letter demanding $2000. Despite the fact that he forked over the $2000, he was still intimidated to pay up another $15,000! After he saw the cops over this, some arrests ensued.
Scambook: the Protection Racket, Online Version
At the present, a modern-day mobster is shaking up the small business: It's called Scambook.com. This ultra-devious outfit, hardly surprisingly being operated out of President Obama's former residence of Chicago, perpetrates the online type of crushing store windows unless business owners fork over regular protection money. Weirdly, the Scambook scam actually comes with a crooked reputation. To wit, Webutation.com condemns them through a warning against them, the BBB cites them for not being accredited, and it also hits them with an F rating. Finally, the BBB even goes so far as to put up an actual "alert" against this website.
Scambook: The Free Community
Scambook poses as a free community service. This means that anyone (yes, anyone, without any proof, validation or authentication!) can write a negative review on a business at Scambook.com. This of course throws ethics and accountability out the window, and allows competitors to mudsling each other, and allows any angry customer to write fake reports on a business unchallenged.
But Scambook.com is a business. It's about money. It charges businesses $500 a month for the right to contact (via a form) the originator of the complaint. So a business needs to commmit to an expense of $6,000 a year just to be able to communicate with those complaining. Needless to say, email forms are an automated technology, so Scambook.com spends hardly any money at all and ends up making a delicious profit off of desperate business owners aiming to repair their damaged reputations.
Scambook injures reputable businesses
On the Scambookscam.com site, a business owner explains their experience with Scambook. Damaged by the slanderous reviews, said business attempted to fix the problem, yet Scambook protested against taking away the complaints even when the issue was resolved!
Scambookscam.com additionally reveals how Scambook opposes the posting of complaints if businesses keep paying them $500 every month. The irony is that Scambook suffers from a horrid rating from the BBB, but it passes judgments on other sites.
Scambook suicide
Back on March 24, 2012, a lady indicated that Scambook's falsehoods drove her spouse to take his own life. Scambook preyed on his business and put up a humongous amount of libelous reviews of it, causing the spouse to lose the business and his family to lose its residence. Back in January of 2102, said business owner committed suicide.
Mafia guys fall hard!
Gangman Lewis "Scooby" Rodden was thrown in the slammer with his pals for employing violence and threats on businesses. Bad guys will eventually go to jail!
Class action suit
Presently, there's a Scambook class action suit forming against Scambook.com. Upward of 200 complaints have already been collected. If you've been harmed by this site, then send an e-mail to scambookhurtme@hotmail.com. A law practice from Chicago is handling the complaints.
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