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Scambook Class Action - Protect Yourself From This Protection Racket Business

by Dima Muravievich

The Protection Racket in the Mafia

Search for "protection racket" on Wikipedia, and you'll discover that such a racket is explained as an extortion plot whereby a terrorizing person intimidates weaker persons into paying protection cash that supposedly is meant to buy protection services against different external menaces.

If you've ever seen the Godfather films, you know about the usual extortion plan utilized by the mafia: They will apparently shield one's business after you fork over weekly protection cash. As a bonus motivation to small-business people, if they refuse to pay up, then hoods visit their store location and break property, intimidate the staff, and perhaps even light a match after dousing the place in gasoline!

If you like reading mobster stories, dive into Wikipedia and search for "protection racket" or "extortion racket" - you'll read about La Manu Niera (Sicilian for "The Black Hand") and its practices going back to the 1800s. The famous tenor Enrico Caruso was once threatened by this gang - he received a note demanding $2,000. Although he paid up, they sent him a new letter demanding $15,000. He then went to the police, and this resulted in several arrests.

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 service"

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 harms legitimate businesses

On the <a href="http://scambookscam.com/?p=14">Scambookscam.com</a> 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 also details how Scambook will actively prevent complaints from being posted as long as a business - however shady its practices - continues to pay them $500 a month. The crazy thing is that Scambook itself has a lousy rating with the BBB - and yet it stands in judgment of other businesses.

Scambook suicide

On the 24th of March, 2012, a gal from Memphis, TN, said that Scambook.com's fraud provoked her hubby's suicide. The site apparently honed in on his business, put up a huge quantity of false and slanderous reviews of it, thus causing the hubby to lose the business and his family to even lose its home. In January of 2012, said business owner killed himself.

Mobsters fall, and fall hard

Infamous gang hardman Lewis "Scooby" Rodden was put into jail, with his buds, for utilizing threats and violence on businesses. At times, it takes a while, yet bad guys fall hard!

Class action suit

There is currently <a href="http://scambook.pissedconsumer.com/if-you-were-hurt-by-scambook-com-then-read-this-20120330308862.html">a class action suit forming against Scambook.com, and over 200 complaints have already been gathered</a>. If you or anyone you know has been hurt by Scambook, please write to scambookhurtme@hotmail.com. A Chicago-based law firm is gathering the claims.



There are a lot of articles on the world wide web exposing the <a href="http://scambookscam.com/">scambook fraud and its extortion strategies</a>. You are allowed to file your <a href="http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/scambook-online-extortion-c596224.html">scambook.com complaints on Complaintsboard.com</a>.

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Title: Scambook Class Action - Protect Yourself From This Protection Racket Business
Author: Dima Muravievich
Email: andrewg@realtystore.com
Keywords: online scams,shopping online,shopping,customer protection,customer support,internet marketing,online business,business ethics
Word Count: 710
Category: Ecommerce
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