Ed Magedson Served Personally

[steve miller]

Federated Financial has personally served Ed Magedson. Federated Financial has been defamed. Federated Financial has posted Magedson's extortionate letters @ www.bad-business-rip-off.com

Federated Financial has letters from Magedson extorting $ from other companies too!

Read all about it at Federated Financial's site at the above URL

[visitor200]

Originally Posted by steve miller

Federated Financial has personally served Ed Magedson. Federated Financial has been defamed. Federated Financial has posted Magedson's extortionate letters @ www.bad-business-rip-off.com

Federated Financial has letters from Magedson extorting $ from other companies too!

Read all about it at Federated Financial's site at the above URL

What date was he served?

[visitor200]

What happened to the Fox TV news link?

[steve miller]

The fox news report on Ed Magedson is being hosted here!

http://www.ezripofflawsuit.com/

[visitor200]

Originally Posted by steve miller

The fox news report on Ed Magedson is being hosted here!

http://www.ezripofflawsuit.com/

When I click on the TV link I get rtsp://ucsy.com/ucsy/Ripoffreport_Interview.rm which is dead. Is there another link?

[kenhere]

From my research, I have found some more information regarding Ed Magedson and Ripoffreport, the man and company who are attempting to extort money from YOU by posting false negative information. I have found the providers for the Ripoffreport site, and they all have the legal right and ability to stop servicing his site. It is in every one of their terms of service. They may throw all kinds of bs jargon at you as to not being responsible for Ed, but, if we continue to call them with complaints, they will have no option but to either explain their exact stance regarding Ed, or more likely, they will simply stop doing business with him. think about it. Any business wants customers, but not at the expense of dealing with all of the customer's problems. Here is the information that I have acquired.
1) Prolexic Technologies provides the bandwidth for ripoffreport. (866)800-0366
2) Pure Gig provides the bandwidth to Prolexic
Matt Wilson, General Manager
Puregig.com
3443 N. Central Ave
Suite 706
Phoenix, AZ 85012
(602)445-1850
3)*new info*
Sterling Network HOSTS ripoffreport.com. They ARE responsible if you have been extorted by Ed, because they are the ones providing the actual service.
www.sterlingnetwork.com
(602)682-2200 general
(602)682-2210 9am-5pm
(800)482-5310 after hours
noc@sterlingnetwork.com
abuse@sterlingnetwork.com
These companies have to bear responsibility for Ed's actions, because they are the ones providing him the website to extort you, or post libelous info about you. Bartenders ARE responsible for providing alcohol to intoxicated individuals that they know are going to drive. Gun shops ARE responsible for selling guns to people who they know are going to go kill someone. getaway drivers ARE responsible for driving bank robbers to and from the robbery. We must inform these companies of Ed Magedson's activities, and they WILL be responsible for his actions. You CAN serve these companies lawsuit papers no matter what they try to tell you. Call them. Make complaints. If there is no action, continue to call and make compaints. If they still don't respond to the complaints, then you know that they are involved in Ed Magedson's scheme to extort and libel you, and SERVE THEM A LAWSUIT! They have money, and they will HAVE to pay! If we all do this, they will have no choice but to take action against Ed and his crooked activities.
1. puregig provids bandwidth to
2.Prolexic tech
3.Sterlingnetworks.net host his web page.
If anyone has any info on ripoff report please post.

[RegulationE]

Originally Posted by kenhere

3)*new info*
Sterling Network HOSTS ripoffreport.com. They ARE responsible if you have been extorted by Ed, because they are the ones providing the actual service.
www.sterlingnetwork.com
(602)682-2200 general
(602)682-2210 9am-5pm
(800)482-5310 after hours
noc@sterlingnetwork.com
abuse@sterlingnetwork.com

The information about the hosting company being responsible is FALSE. Hosting companies are covered by Safe Harbor laws because they do not provide the information on the servers only the space on the servers. THey are required to remove illegal sites when they know about them to remain in compliance.

Originally Posted by kenhere

These companies have to bear responsibility for Ed's actions, because they are the ones providing him the website to extort you, or post libelous info about you.

The hosting companies do not have any responsibility for the actions of their customers.

Originally Posted by kenhere

Bartenders ARE responsible for providing alcohol to intoxicated individuals that they know are going to drive. Gun shops ARE responsible for selling guns to people who they know are going to go kill someone. getaway drivers ARE responsible for driving bank robbers to and from the robbery. We must inform these companies of Ed Magedson's activities, and they WILL be responsible for his actions.

Please compare Apples to Apples. Hosting companies are not the same as bar tenders or Gun Shops or anything else other then Hosting companies. The laws are different.

Originally Posted by kenhere

You CAN serve these companies lawsuit papers no matter what they try to tell you. Call them. Make complaints. If there is no action, continue to call and make compaints. If they still don't respond to the complaints, then you know that they are involved in Ed Magedson's scheme to extort and libel you, and SERVE THEM A LAWSUIT! They have money, and they will HAVE to pay! If we all do this, they will have no choice but to take action against Ed and his crooked activities.
1. puregig provids bandwidth to
2.Prolexic tech
3.Sterlingnetworks.net host his web page.
If anyone has any info on ripoff report please post.

You can file a suit against anyone for anything, but don't expect to get very far if you are trying to collect damages from the hosting companies or the bandwidth providers.

[Judge Roy Bean]

Originally Posted by kenhere

These companies have to bear responsibility for Ed's actions, because they are the ones providing him the website to extort you, or post libelous info about you. Bartenders ARE responsible for providing alcohol to intoxicated individuals that they know are going to drive. Gun shops ARE responsible for selling guns to people who they know are going to go kill someone. getaway drivers ARE responsible for driving bank robbers to and from the robbery. We must inform these companies of Ed Magedson's activities, and they WILL be responsible for his actions. You CAN serve these companies lawsuit papers no matter what they try to tell you. Call them. Make complaints. If there is no action, continue to call and make compaints. If they still don't respond to the complaints, then you know that they are involved in Ed Magedson's scheme to extort and libel you, and SERVE THEM A LAWSUIT! They have money, and they will HAVE to pay! If we all do this, they will have no choice but to take action against Ed and his crooked activities.
1. puregig provids bandwidth to
2.Prolexic tech
3.Sterlingnetworks.net host his web page.
If anyone has any info on ripoff report please post.

More likely, Kenhere, you can be sued for tortous interference.

The Honorable Judge Roy Bean
Creditoris Squaliformes

[Judge Roy Bean]

Originally Posted by steve miller

Federated Financial has personally served Ed Magedson. Federated Financial has been defamed. Federated Financial has posted Magedson's extortionate letters @ www.bad-business-rip-off.com

Federated Financial has letters from Magedson extorting $ from other companies too!

Read all about it at Federated Financial's site at the above URL

Whoopeee.

People get served with lawsuits all the time. 99.9% of all civil lawsuits never even get to trial. They are either dropped, dismissed or settled without a judgement of someone being right or wrong.

The Honorable Judge Roy Bean.
Creditoris Squaliformes Blog

[kenhere]

God you are silly.I know for a fact that ed's minion's are removing my post. I was only posting on sites that have ripoff reports on it. I did not just make it up as i will do in the future. You will see the same post all over the place! it semms to help people in litigation!
Remember all i wanted was the liable postings on ROR (it is a complaint not about my compny) changed to reflect the TRUTH! Not to have my name advertised on the internet so I have to give ed $$$$$$$ to get the it corrected. Thank you ed magedson!
It is not nice to attack people on the internet and I can not beleive anyone would defend it.
Their is a ripoff report on you saying that you are a scam, sexual predator,or telling people not to do business with your company.
And remember NONE of this ripoff report is true! Lets say it is from exemployee, exwife,or just someone trying to inflict malicous damage to your company,your family,your income, and more importantly your good name IS being attacked. What are you going to do pay ed for adverising your name? Pay ed for these false reports? Give someone over $30,000.00 plus a monthly fee to do a consumer advocacy program on your company?
I do not want anything to do with that crap and you wouldnt either. As you know it is very easy to get my ip address and find out who i am even if i post anonymously. So sue me for protecting my name!
I AM NOT STEVE MILLER!!!! I respect Steve and what he is doing which is protecting against mean,extorting, criminal enterprises such as ripoff report. I know that some ripoff reports are truthful,but if their more than one that is a totla lie than that is wrong. They are hundreds if not thousands of people being attacked by some person. How do you know that the person that hates you for what ever reason is not taking advantage of ed service. Then ed advertises what this person says so if you want these liea taking down you just pay ed.

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Posts: 2917

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:19 am Post subject: Fox News Rips Magedson's ripoff

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Hopefully this will silence many of the critics out there who are sitll defending Ed. Fox news has done an interview with some of the businesses he has tried to extort.

Fox offered Ed the opportunity to respond and be part of the interview but of course what he is doing is indefensible, so he declined.

You can view the interview online at
http://www.beiconline.com/media/7news-ripoffreport.wmv

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Anonymous
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Joined: Nov 10, 2000
Posts: 2917

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:03 am Post subject: RIPFF REPORT: RIPOF REPORT AND WAHT TO DO

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Ed knows he will lose service if companies press service providers. o puregig and prolexic,STERLING NETWORK, AND ULTRA DNS SHOULD NOT WANT THE LIABLILTY OF ED'S SITE. they cared why wont they explain there business relationship with ed. They want us to go away or they will threaten to counter sue.
All you want is the truth!
If they want courts to handle this matter then they will get their wish.
How can they provide service to a company that is illegally doing things? If it was not for them ed would not be in business. Yes ed can go around and get new service providers, but that would take him down in rankings which would shut down his criminal site. Also, if you had the corresondence between you and service providers it would be hard for him to pick another service provider. Just show exactly what happened with his last service providers. Having a lawsuit on ed is like suing a ghost,but the people responsible for getting ed'd malcious site out to the people can be fair game. Why would they want to defend ed?
Ed could pick an overseas service provider?
The realibility of those companies are very real.It wil not get him ranked high in search engines.There are so many problems with that its actually funny.
Any info that anyone can get is appreciated.
I.P address's
service providers
any lawsuit
anything
The more we get this info out the better companies can defend themselves.
Who cares what ed and his cronnies post.It actually gives different angles to attack.
If ed's site is attacking you unfairly with no regard to the truth then the easiest way i see that can get rid of this convicted criminal is to go after service providers.
If they bring up the 1996 act then ask them how does that pertain to extortion, R.I.C.O,and all the many different laws that are being broken.
Also, not only go after individualy but go after him criminally.
since your businees is based in whatever town you are in. I beleive it will be smart to file in your own home town. let them come to you.
Eventhough the internet is crossing state lines which the F.B.I would like to know about. Most police departments have a internet division. Hope alot of you can read into this.
Contact the Arizona attorney general office.
File:CIC 04-21090 Magedson,ed
Tammy miller
602-542-5763
Small claims may also be another way
Puregig inc
3443 N.Central ave
suite 706
Phoenix, az 85012
602-445-1850
sTERLING NETWORKS
ULTRADNS
888-367-4820
They will tell you ed is a customer of a customer, but wont give you exactly their agreement for them to malicously attack your company. Even if ed is doing it . If it was not for them ed would not have bandwidth.
Prolexic tech is who puregig passes the buck too.
Who does what?
There are many ways to skin a cAT.

It sucks having anonymous posting about your company. Imagine only way to remove anonymous posting was to pay ed $50,000.00
and a monthly fee.
WHY DOES EDS ATTORNEY SEND LETTER TO SERVICE PROVIDERS? hIS LAWYERS ARE SMARTER THAN YOURS.
From my research, I have found some more information regarding Ed Magedson and Ripoffreport, the man and company who are attempting to extort money from YOU by posting false negative information. I have found the providers for the Ripoffreport site, and they all have the legal right and ability to stop servicing his site. It is in every one of their terms of service. They may throw all kinds of bs jargon at you as to not being responsible for Ed, but, if we continue to call them with complaints, they will have no option but to either explain their exact stance regarding Ed, or more likely, they will simply stop doing business with him. think about it. Any business wants customers, but not at the expense of dealing with all of the customer's problems. Here is the information that I have acquired.
1) Prolexic Technologies provides the bandwidth for ripoffreport. (866)800-0366
2) Pure Gig provides the bandwidth to Prolexic
Matt Wilson, General Manager
Puregig.com
3443 N. Central Ave
Suite 706
Phoenix, AZ 85012
(602)445-1850
3)*new info*
Sterling Network HOSTS ripoffreport.com. They ARE responsible if you have been extorted by Ed, because they are the ones providing the actual service.
www.sterlingnetwork.com
(602)682-2200 general
(602)682-2210 9am-5pm
(800)482-5310 after hours
noc@sterlingnetwork.com
abuse@sterlingnetwork.com

4.ULTRA DNS IS ARE RESONSIBLE FOR ED'S DOMAIN
888-367-4820
These companies have to bear responsibility for Ed's actions, because they are the ones providing him the website to extort you, or post libelous info about you. Bartenders ARE responsible for providing alcohol to intoxicated individuals that they know are going to drive. Gun shops ARE responsible for selling guns to people who they know are going to go kill someone. getaway drivers ARE responsible for driving bank robbers to and from the robbery. We must inform these companies of Ed Magedson's activities, and they WILL be responsible for his actions. You CAN serve these companies lawsuit papers no matter what they try to tell you. Call them. Make complaints. If there is no action, continue to call and make compaints. If they still don't respond to the complaints, then you know that they are involved in Ed Magedson's scheme to extort and libel you, and SERVE THEM A LAWSUIT! They have money, and they will HAVE to pay! If we all do this, they will have no choice but to take action against Ed and his crooked activities.
1. puregig provids bandwidth to
2.Prolexic tech
3.Sterlingnetworks.net host his web page.
If anyone has any info on ripoff report please post.
4.ULTRA DNS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS DOMAIN.
888-367-4820

[placetor]

Another way to do it is to fight fire with fire. Attack all the companies that host their site with the service that provides hosting for ed. Can anyone list all the sites that host with that service.

When those businesses start looking for other hosting options they will then dump Ed!

[kenhere]

RIPOFF REPORT VICTIMS!
What to do if attacked by Ripoff Report,Ultra Dns,Puregig,Prolexic,and maria c. speth!
1. Ripoff report was set up to be a site that is beneficial to consumers, butit is much more than that as you know. it is set up to also extort money from companies. Ripoff Report(ROR) takes annonymous complaints with no regard to the truth,slander or harrasment and post them on the internet. Then ROR puts YOUR COMPANY name in Meta tags and submitts it to search engines. (with out your permission). That is how it gets a high rank on search engines. Now if anyone types in your company's name in a search engine Ed's ROR pops up. Only way to get fixed is to pay ed. that is extortion!Join ed's consumer advocacy program(LOL).
2.Contact Arizona attorney general office.
RE: CIC 04-21090 Magedson, ED
(602) 542-5763
Tammy Miller
3. Contact his service providers and sue them. they have a responsibility for their clients. If one of their clients had a site that promoted terrorism or child porn they would remove and have liabilty for servicing site,servers, or provide bandwidth. IF they didnt know about the content in site then they would stop doing business with ED. Now, ROR is not as harsh as the two examples above,but it is harrasment, slander,liable and illegal. If ED or the service providers throw up The 1996 act that suppose to protect free speech on internet it does not fit in this situation , but it does not cover extortion or any other illegal activities. Why do service providers have TERMS OF SERVICE AGREEMENTS or ACCEPTABLE USE POLICIES with there customers. It is very clearly spelled out what they tolerate. Your lawyer should have feild day with this one unless they like long drawn out legal battles. You can call personally too sometime you cna do more than lawyers. If you have good lawyer they can cut Ed's legs out from under him.By going after service providers! Ed is a ghost so you have to be crafty. There are many pepole that can stop ed's service. Here is a list of people or companies that for now provide services to ED and ROR.
A. Maria C. Speth
She has accepted service for ED's legal matters. contact her
Jaburg & Wilk
3200 N. Central Ave
Phoenix , Az 85012
602-248-1000
B. Ultra DNS
Domain servers for ed's site:
UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET 204.69.234.1
UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET 204.74.101.1
ULTRA DNS
(650) 228-2300
support@ultadns.com
888-367-4820
C. Prolexic Tech.
They provide bandwidth
866-800-0366
abuse@prolexic.com
D. Puregig
provides a block of bandwidth for prolexic.
(602)445-1850
Matt Wilson (general manager)
They will try to make you run in circles,but they have Terms of Service agreement with their customers.
4. Contact Google,yahoo,msn,lycos. they all have abuse departments. I got my ROR deindexed,but it took me a while. You have to e-mail and mainly call until you get something done. Use the same letter to each abuse department.
5. Dont call Ed 602-518-4357 unless you want to. Only way to get any thing done with him is to pay.
6.Go for crimianl case not just civil.
7. have fun, be honest and get your story out there.
8.If you had a ripoff report on you being a child molestor, crooked business perdon, or a bad mom you would get it removed. You would just pay ed.
9. How much $$$$$$ have you lost or like me why would you want lies out there. With no regards to truth. remember he is advertising your comapny's name in Meta tags without your permission. Then how else does your ROR get ranked so high.
10.Contact BBB.
11.Ed s llc
Xcentric ventures
P.O box 470
Tempe, Az 85280
(602) 518-4357
EDitor@ripoffreport.com
This can be waste of time since ed has po box and cell phone number listed.
12. St kitts is made up to make companies run in circles just like Hy-cite did. Ed's company is in Arizona and his service providers are in the USA. Plus, ed through his site does business in every state in the union. copnanies in florida have been sueing ed in their state. PLUS, THEY ARE ABLE TO SERVE MARIA C. SPETH ANY LEGAL PAPERS.
13. HAMMER!!! on the T.O.S (terms of service provision at allinternet comapnies).
Look at the content of the post and see if it is in violation of their own policy. Why do they have this policy if they are portected by the 1996 act. LoL
14. If you know any information about Ed and ripoff report please post in any forum or message board or do it here.
15. Maria c Speth got all irate when we contacted there other service provider Sterling networks
602-682-2200
abuse@sterlingnetwork.com
Now it seems like they(ROR) are no longer customers of sterling networks. Good stuff!!!
16.It sucks having people post things on the internet annonymously.
17. Hope alot of you can read more into this post.
18. Do not let ed get away with his scheme. Do something. We can easily get this taken care of if we all do something. Just how does it feel when you put your company name in a search engine and you see a Ripoff report there.
19. Here are legal judgements on ed magedson and ripoff report
http:http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.go...=CV1995-004052
and CV2004-021685. There is probably more.
20. 17th Judicial court
Broward county Florida
case no: 04-17721-21
Ed magedson and xcentric ventures LLc is the defendant.
21. There are probably more . Just post if you find out any info. If ed jumps sercive providers or any is filled in court (anywhere) .
22. It is very hard for ed to switch service providers!

[jessanicole]

I have spent the better part of the morning going over ALL of the documents all over the web that supports and critizises both parties, I have to say that I will still side with ripoffreports and the freedom of speech. I would have to say that Steve Miller should be quite thankfull for this right as he has posted so many things out of context...he will state "ED Magedson states under oath that he only used ripoffreports to retaliate" and provide a document to read which is in fact the court transcripts, which I am sure he is hoping no one will take the time to read because anyone with a clear and logical mind will read that and know exactly what and why that statement was made and clearly as you read the transcript you see that it does not mean what Steve Miller is intending it to mean when he posts a partial statement, that is something that as I read thru documents he did alot of, even with the "Fugitive" and "felon" and posting a picture of Ed from 1974 and 1975, what he got in a little trouble as a teenager 30YEARS AGO !!!!!!! PLEASE, I think if you are going to post those words you should also post the date in the same banner type text that you are posting everything else, make sure that you let everyone know that this is from 1974.....

****Also reading everything posted I only see a bunch of ranting from Chris Macfarland and Steve Miller, EVERYONE AND ANYONE who has a problem with your company can and should post their problem or concern on a dispute venue whether it is Ripoffreports or another forum,of which there are plenty to choose from.

*****AS TO YOUR REBUTTAL THAT YOU POSTED TO THE GENTLEMEN THAT COMPLAINED ON THE ORIGINAL RIPOFFREPORT....YOU STATE TO HIM AND TO ANYONE ELSE CONSIDERING FILING A RIPOFFREPORT COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR SERVICES OR THEIR DISPLEASURE WITH YOU...THEY HAD BETTER THINK TWICE (SOUNDS THREATENING) BEFORE FILING A REPORT, NOW WHY IF YOU ARE SUCH A GRAND COMPANY SHOULD YOU BE SO FEARFULL OF A ROR, YOU HAVE TO ASSUME THAT THE REPORTER IS COMPLAINING ABOUT A VALID PROBLEM AND WHY SHOULD HE NOT BE ABLE TO POST,? BECAUSE IT MIGHT HURT YOUR FEELINGS ? BECAUSE IT IS TRUE AND WILL HELP ALERT OTHERS TO STEER CLEAR OR BE CAUTIOUS OF DEALING WITH YOU ? IF YOU ARE DOING NOTHING WRONG THEN LOOK AT A ROR AS A WAY TO BETTER YOUR BUSINESS, OK WE MADE AN ERROR, LETS FIX IT, INSTEAD OF FIGHTING AN ALL OUT WAR.


I do not know Ed nor anyone at ripoffreport and no I was not paid to write this, I am just a consumer who believes that venues such as ror are valuable to the public as a way to get some resolution and to protect our financial interests, if we fall prey to a scam and go to court we will be told "Buyer Beware" so these sites help us BEWARE...when you see countless reports filed by numerous people that have fallen prey to a scam and they all say the same thing, well I believe we can judge for ourselves whether or not we want to pursue a business relationship with said company,in the same regard, as a informed consumer if you are to read all the info on the web about FFS you will be able to clearly see that the negative comments do not have anything to do with the editor of ROR, he was not a client, but they do come from valid clients who are displeased with the service provided to them by this company.
How is it Eds fault that you failed to please your clients ?
Your use of the word Extortion in relation to Ed is a clear slander, do you know what it means ?
Extort: to obtain from a person by force, intimidation or undue or illegal *****

when looking at Ed's advocacy program for companies all I see is a well thought out venture to help companies re-gain their clients trust and he is offering a service , using employees to conduct searches and fact finding research to help facilitate the refunds of dissatisfied clients. They can say No, and do all the research and callling themselves, but generallly a company does not have the time nor resources to do all that needs to be done to solve all of the problems they may be having, this is exactly what an individual consultant might do if they were to come into a business and try to "clean" it up, restructure it or figure out why they were having so many complaints. and believe me they will charge a fee.

Now about your Credit Counseling Service, why do you charge a fee ?
there are numerous credit counseling services that do this exact thing for FREE, are you then extorting ? by your definition you are.

As for Ed supposedly being in hiding , he is just smart and you cant find him, that always makes the greedy ones angry, it gives everyone a good laugh to see the lengths you will go to find him, one might say "GET A LIFE"

Jesika
Washington

[kenhere]

Thanks for the help I got my ripoff report removed on google
1. www.antiripoffreport.com
2. www.goodbusinessbureau.com
3. www.bad-business-rip-off.com
4. www.ezripofflawsuit.com
5. http://www.my3cents.com/showReview.cgi?id=10554
6. http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/docket ... o.asp?caseNumber=CV2004-021685
7. http://www.dcpages.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=5058
8.http://www.pulsemanagement.com/press/beic.htm
9. http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...ic/f/8445/t/10
10. http://express-press-release.com/16/Extortio ... %20place,%20the%20Internet.php
11. http://sleazereport.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=12&
Contact Arizona attorney general office
File #CIC 04-210090 Magedson, ed
602-542-5763

You can serve ed at
Jaburg $ wilk
3200 n central ave
phoenix Az 85012
602-248-1000

Contact info for google get your report removed)
Google Inc.
Mountian view California
94043 USA

Directnic is the regitrar for ed's sites

Domain servers(I did a whois search)

NSO.Directnic.com 204.251.10.100
NS1.Directnic.com 206.251.1772

Contact christopher scorina (Lawyer)
949-582-1544

contact your local BBB http://www.dc.bbb.org/report.html?na...compid=1038533 :

contact the Federal trade commision:
File # FOIA-2005
ripoffreport.com
202-326-2417
margeret woodson
https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01

Contact F.B.I:http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp


Earn a bounty with information about Ed Magedson
There are several federal laws that provide bounties or rewards or the equivalent of bounties for certain information or lawsuits.

Federal income taxes
Section 7623 of the Internal Revenue Code authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay rewards to those who help detect and/or prosecute tax cheats. If you have any information that Ed Magedson has cheated on his income taxes, send it to the IRS. Their tax fraud hot line is 800-829-0433. If they use it successfully, they may pay you a reward. There is no set reward amount, although you often hear the figure 10%. The basic idea is that the IRS wishes to encourage such information. They will acknowledge receipt of your information and tell you one way or the other if they will be rewarding you for it.

Inside information trading
This is the crime Martha Stewart made famous. In general, persons who have inside formation about a public company may not buy or sell shares of that stock unless they first register that information, which makes it public. The news stories about Martha Stewart have suggested that she knew Imclone was about to be told publicly that they would be denied approval of an important new drug. Arguably, she and others sold before the news became public to avoid the likely decline in stock price. The head of Imclone has pleaded guilty to insider trading. She got indicted for covering up her behavior in that incident. The stock in her company went down by a half a billion as a result.

If you report an apparent illegal inside trade by Ed Magedson to the SEC, you are eligible to collect a bounty of up to 10% of the amount of improper profits he is forced to give back. 17 CFR §§201.61 to 201.68 The Web page for the SEC’s Inside Information Bounty Program is at http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce/insider.htm.

There is a general complaint center at SEC. Their address and fax number are SEC Complaint Center, 450 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20549 202-942-9634 and their complaint Web page is http://www.sec.gov/complaint.shtml.

Racketeering
As with many laws, RICO has a misleading name. RICO stands for the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 USC 1961-4). The name conjures up images of the Godfather. The law is not confined to mobsters at all. Rather, it simply is triggered whenever a person or organization commits two or more acts of mail fraud (18 USC 1341) or wire fraud (18 USC 1343) in a ten-year period.

Mail fraud is “…obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises…” involving the mail in any way. Wire fraud is the same, only it requires the transimission of some sound by wire in interstate commerce. I think that’s the Congress’s way to describe a phone call or fax. Nowadays, it may cover Internet as well. If you listen to a dial-up modem, you can hear a rushing sound of the data being transmitted. Arguably, that, too, would be wire fraud.

Do Ed Magedson or his companies commit mail fraud or wire fraud? I do not know. I do know that he owns a telemarketing company and uses telemarketing. I also know that he has a Web site. Sale of books, tapes, or printed newsletters generally require use of the mail. That’s part of the requirement. The other question is are there any misrepresentations? The " Better Business Bureau has given Ed Magedson an unsatisfactory rating" is part of a misrepresentations. Do they rated him unsatisfactory because of not giving refunds? To the extent that he or his firm represented that they would give refunds, not giving them when the customer has complied with the refund terms sounds like another misrepresentation.

In general, mail fraud and wire fraud are crimes and crimes are prosecuted only by government prosecutors, namely the U.S. Attorney. But sometimes, the government is concerned that their resources are too limited to deter the crimes in question enough. In those cases, they add a clause to the law that enables civilians to become “prosecutors” of a sort by giving them a legal right to file a civil suit for those same crimes and providing a financial incentive to do so. So-called “civil RICO” is such a law.

18 USC 1964 permits civil (private) suits for RICO violations. It also provides incentive by entitling the winning plaintiff to triple damages. I do not want to encourage suits against Ed Magedson or anyone else without good grounds. Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure says it is illegal to file a suit unless you have investigate both the facts and the law and made sure the suit is warranted by both. So if you plan to sue Ed Magedson under RICO or any other law, make sure you have good grounds.

False Claims Act
Another federal law that encourages private citizens to sue is the False Claims Act. In this law, if you win, you get a large reward. I see less likelihood that Ed Magedson would come under this, but it’s worth looking into. The main chance would be his use of and his advocacy of the use of federally related contacts or cooperations in his so-called “working with the FBI”. The False Claims Act generally relates to persons getting money from the federal government improperly — or not paying the federal government as much as they were supposed to

[joe.kerr]

For those who are interested, the rumor mill that spins between attorneys is ripe with information about Ed Magidson of ripoff report.com. Evidentally, Ed has not paid his attorney's bill and owes Lee Mackson of Schutts and Bowen in Florida over $60,000 in attorney's fees. The scuttlebutt is that they are going to sue Ed, which gives me a great idea. Very close to other suggestions, since we know Ed doesn't pay his attorney's fees, if there are several law suits he would be so busy trying to figure out way to not pay the lawyers that he would be run into the ground. We are going to file suit in Arizona very soon. Any other takers? :D

[Klaas]

Dirty money-against-truth tactics imho, mr Joker.

As far as I can judge from my faraway distance, also taking into consideration ROR's history and achievements, Mister Magedson is doing a good job. He just should be a bit better aware of all the false allegations which have been placed on ROR by scummy fruitcakes like Miller and ******* (Sharkie and the Swan) , polluting his site and only meant to backfire on him.

[idontlie]

I read alot of the stuff said here and i have to say... Ripoffreport.com is right on the money concernig alot of stuff. I sence alot of sour grapes from some of the dishonest companies that want defaming information removed since it may be hurting their efforts to rip off the consumers out there. I also know for a fact that alot of the information is unsolicited testimonial that Ed (whoever that is?!) didnt create. I would assuke and graciously provides a soapbox for 'ripped off' business people to state thier grievances. As with all things read on the internet.... you have to be the final word in weather or not you think its true.

[rinpoche]

This is just more ******* bull****. ******* a felon, child abuser, perpetual scammer, spammer, phisher, and internet troll.

I know for a fact - from speaking to several attorneys who are trying to sue him - that he'd get served more too if he didn't hide out and duck getting served. Ask why an honest businessman uses 8-10 aliases.

Ask about his connection to Mohamed Hadid and why the FBI raided hadid's ofice in DC. This is a very, very bad man - not just a con artist.

[z3ro]

Ask who?

Why dont you tell us?

[z3ro]

Also, the video is here:

http://www.bad-business-rip-off.com/wsvnvideo.html

Laugh, out, friggin, loud.

What a joker. Klaas, you actually SUPPORT this bozo?

Monetary value?

[z3ro]

Extortion? Scumbag? Yes. This is, according to this website (http://www.bad-business-rip-off.com/) an email sent to Hy Cite corporation. They sell dinnerware and cookware.

Read it for yourself, and judge for yourself. I for one am getting tired of all the lies, on both sides. Klaas, defend Ed Magedson now?

--------------------------------------------------

July 11, 2003

badbusinessbureau.com
Corporate Customer Advocacy Program
Assisting companies working towards a better image

Hy Cite - Royal Prestige
Ingrid C. Arvalo Villanueva (608) 273-3373 x 6126


Ingrid,

As you have seen, the web site (RipoffReport.com) has the goal to help consumers.

What badbusinessbureau.com will do:

After your written approval, we will E-mail all the consumers who feel they were victimized, stating that they will get a full refund plus a min of 5% more for their inconvenience explaining (something to the effect of) management did not realize this was going on, and they are glad (as we discussed by phone) that these Rip-off Reports were there to let them know of the problems. With over 900 offices, there will always be some complaints and things happening out of their control. And the fact that your company seems to be happy this was brought to your attention, wanting to rectify a problem you were not aware of and are now fixing it and offering a full refund. We can also explain the fact that these are independent offices and you have not control as you explained on the phone.

We will include in a mailing to the unsatisfied customers a contact number and e-mail address of a specific person handling these complaints at Hy Cite?

Once a complaint is resolved, the Report will be updated in the Rip-off Report title to show the companies willingness to work with their customer.

Rip-off Report will contact Hy Cite within 48 hours of a NEW posted Rip-off Report. As we notify your designated person, we will e-mail the unsatisfied customer on who to contact, because your company wants to take care of all these situations.

We will also include a link onto the specific Rip-off Reports about your company, a statement from Hy Cite (which you will write) .. that will be your letter to existing and future consumers on why are you helping them, something about your business and your commitment to getting to the bottom of these problems. This will be very convincing to any consumer to do business with you after looking at the specific Rip-off Report on your company.

If for some reason the consumer will not respond to our mailing, we will try calling them, If we get no response, at all, we will then UPDATE The Report as to our investigation, and the title and the Report will reflect Hy Cites willingness to satisfy this customer, but apparently they either filed a bogus Report, or they are a disgruntled employee, a competitor etc, what ever our findings, with some assistance from you, as to the possibilities of why they did not respond, the Report will reflect that and will definitely put you in a good light, if any customer reads any Rip-off Report on you, ..because you will be trying to make all the unsatisfied customers happy.

What Hy Cite needs to do:

Live up to their agreement to satisfy all complaints that come to Rip-off Report

Hy Cite will only give a refund if they have the web address of the customers specific Rip-off Report, so when the customer has been satisfied, that info will be sent to CorporateAdvocacy@ripoffreport.com, so Rip-off Report can assist your customer, making sure they UPDATE the Report to let everyone know what good business people you are.

What badbusinessbureau.com will receive for this service:

We see that you have about a total of about 25 to 30 complaints. After you submitted to us your explanation as to the reason for these complaints, badbusinessbureau.com will evaluate your statement, to see if we can work with it to make this program work..

If accepted , before the mailing goes out to start this Corporate Customer Advocacy Program to your unsatisfied customers, we will require a check for $30,000 made payable to badbusinessbureau.com. Once this mailing goes out, and all the reports are UPDATED in a positive light by either HY Cite re******* their money or by stating Hy Cite tried to refund and the author of the report was either a disgruntled employee..etc etc ?

Once all the Reports are updated, we would receive an additional $20,000 with in 5 days of the last Report being UPDATED, we would notify you by e-mail . We will notify Ingrid (or whoever you designate) of this, and would expect the payment to be sent over night mail to a designated address at that time?

ALSO (additional cost) :

badbusinessbureau.com is willing to assist in any investigation or complaints about your company, and willing to explain your willingness to comply as we truthfully see it. You may have prospective customers and possible franchises call us..

If we get any e-mail on your company or a Rip-off Report comes in, that indo will be immediately be forwarded to your designated employee. We will give you a chance to take care of the situation avoiding a possible new Rip-off Report being posted.

Starting 30 days after the second payment of $20,000 we would require a monthly retainer of $1,500. Assuming the e-mail complaints and or Rip-ff Reports do not exceed more than 4 a month?

IN Closing:

You should know, we looked hard at your situation, and called several of the Report Authors on your company, ..this is a difficult case, where it is hard for us to understand why your company and your independent offices treated these people they way they have as these customers truly feel very violated.

We feel this will make authorities take another look at what you are doing before furthering any investigation, as they will see you are taking care of business, even though it may not be all Hy Cites fault, because you cannot watch every move across the country?

We feel by you doing this program, you will be able to use it with future clients as a sales tool as to how you do business? after all?

Every company receives complaints, but how they handle those complaints separates good business from bad business.

Sincerely,
ED Magedson 602-359-4357
Editor@ripoffreport.com
badbusinessbureau.com
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[Klaas]

Thanks for coming out, moron. Knew it all along

[z3ro]

Moron?

Maybe YOUR Ed Magedson? Maybe your an "Alias?" Give me a break.

You're the moron, from Holland no less. Why dont you tell everyone how you accused me of "Trolling" in another thread.

That claim is completely false, so why would I believe anything you say now?

Heres a cute little quote from one of your accused:

Anyone who disagrees with him or questions his allegations he will claim is ******* (he actually did this to me twice) or has been brainwashed by *******.

Anybody who agrees with him he will praise and tell them that he will ad their contribution to his website (wow – what an honor!). It is humorous to read some of the bantering back and forth between Klaas and some of the people posting –congratulating each other on brilliant detective work

You're a joke, a big joke. This whole thing is a crazy love triangle between the same 4-5 people. Its exhausting to read about, and even more exhausting to explain.

I challenge you Klaas, PROVE that I am in any way related to Alec Difrawy. Prove that I am not a 27 year old average everyday person.

I'll even give you my name, in email, so that you can look up where I live in the Brevard County Property Appraisers website.

You're a tool, if you dont know what that means, look it up.

[defrawyagain]

Don’t take it personally. Anyone who disagrees with anything he says is suddenly ******* (Personally I don’t see what the big insult is, but then I wouldn’t).

Anyway recordings of others (I know the person in both recordings very well) are *******. Next pictures will appear saying they are *******.

Seriously Klaas seems to do this because most people just get intimidated and stop responding. The he appears to be right and discredit whatever point they made. That is why he is having such a hard time responding to my posts. He can’t simply dismiss them by saying that I am *******.

Someone emailed me and said it was like the end scene in 8 mile – I thought it was a cute analogy.

[Klaas]

Pity nuff this is spread over different threads, so you can try to lie again about who is on that tape, mr *******.

These links provide all hard evidence one needs, that it is you on both recordings.

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=9352

Another denial: http://www.scam.com/showpost.php?p=152746&postcount=118
But you already confirmed that the second recording was you: http://www.scam.com/showpost.php?p=151916&postcount=50

[z3ro]

More Groovy links.

Its a regular link forest in here.

[joe.kerr]

You think that just because Steve Miller settled out of court and dropped his suit again Ed that you have seen the end of this discussion? Think again. There is a new fervor in the soon-to-be-released Jewish Armageddon between Ed Magedson and Steve Miller. (Is it a hate crime if they are both Jews?)

I will tell you that the pressure is so intense that I had to get away from FFS for a few days. Steve is about to release a volley of legal actions and investigative actions ultimately targeting the demise of ripoffreport.com. Additionally, in the wake of these actions, they will be taking out anyone who appears to be allied with Ed and his site. This include Christine from Credit Suit 2006, "Lewis - the Student of Law, from Newhaven, Connecticut" who may actually be from Valhalla, Alabama, Klaas from Holland and Les Henderson aka easybackgroundcheck.com. We were planning something nifty for Frank Torelli, but the coward has gone into hiding. Just as well. He is doing no good for ED anymore.

In order to accomplish this, FFS is teaming up with others who have been monetarily damaged and feel like they have been unfairly targeted by Ed. Royal Prestige and McKenzie Scott, are our latest and most *****ful allies. These two companies are making headway in bringing down Ed's gripe site.

Royal Prestige is winning their case against Ed and I personally overheard that Chris MacFarland is responsible for "influencing the judge" in that case to ensure that decisions are in favor of Royal Prestige. I understand that great progress is being made along that route. Ed has to turnover much of his company records. We were even able to convince the judge to sidestep the jurisdiction matter. Next is a motion to find Ed in contempt and he is done.

Chris was also able to convince McKenzie Scott to file suit against Ed at the same time. That brings it to about an even dozen lawsuits Chris has helped us get. It is our strategy to time the lawsuits so that legal expenses will cause the website to collapse for lack of ******* to support the site AND a proper defense in court. We already know that Ed is very upset by the fact he is losing in court. He will never be able to sell his site now... He has to declare judgements against the site and he is about to lose to very large cases. Miller backed of his case so that he could hit Ed harder in Chicago!

It was foolish of those who pointed out that we are NOT turning over all the documents in court papers. We are under investigation and we are currently in jeopardy of losing our non-profit status. Those comments only "suited" to make them a target... those site which grant "safe harbor" to sympathy for Ed will be the next sites to come down.

Christine's comments about Ed's deposition were not taken kindly and there will be repercussions. Just like the comments from "Lewis," who is so completely computer illterate that he gave away his location. The next time Klaas grants a TV interview he may have a surprise waiting for him. We have our own special surprise for Les Henderson. Take this as a friendly warning. This is not official and is partly based on scuttlebutt from overheard conversations, as well as direct knowledge, but nonetheless very reliable.

Cheers,

[visitor200]

I have been following this from a year ago, and here it is March 2006 and NOTHING from any court, trial, or anything in the USA.

Does ANYONE have ANYTHING in a manner of a victory against this guy???

If not, it appears he has prevailed against all lawsuits and orders.

[kenhere]

Here it is: I got the e-mail of two V.P's at google
Marissa Mayer V.P User experience
marissa@google.com

Vinton G Cerf V.P
vcerf@mci.net

E-mail these people and explain the scam that ed is running. Also , do a google search on "google contact info" and go to each place you can e-mail and copy and paste the exact same letter you sent to the V.P's. Google is huge so the more departments we contact the faster we find someone who can help. I also e-mailed all the board of directors. I also bought some google stock when they became public. Maybe, I can say something at the shareholders meeting if this doesnt work. Something got to be done and I will not stop until my compnay name is exonerated and off ripoff report.Anyone in california buy some google stock and go to the shareholders meeting and contact shareholders relations at google. Come on guys we all need to get out and stop this Madman from hurting nice people.

[nelly58]

Originally Posted by kenhere

Here it is: I got the e-mail of two V.P's at google
Marissa Mayer V.P User experience
marissa@google.com

Vinton G Cerf V.P
vcerf@mci.net

E-mail these people and explain the scam that ed is running. Also , do a google search on "google contact info" and go to each place you can e-mail and copy and paste the exact same letter you sent to the V.P's. Google is huge so the more departments we contact the faster we find someone who can help. I also e-mailed all the board of directors. I also bought some google stock when they became public. Maybe, I can say something at the shareholders meeting if this doesnt work. Something got to be done and I will not stop until my compnay name is exonerated and off ripoff report.Anyone in california buy some google stock and go to the shareholders meeting and contact shareholders relations at google. Come on guys we all need to get out and stop this Madman from hurting nice people.

Ignore him, stay focused.

[rinpoche]

Hey there Ayman El *******, Alec *******, Dr. A.A. *******, Allen Madison etc.

Why don't you post your personal and office addresses here. I personally know lawyers in two cases that are trying to serve you. Hey - here is your chance to exhonerate yourself. Let them serve you and use your law degree to vigourously defend your good name in court.

[Klaas]

If not, it appears he has prevailed against all lawsuits and orders.

Correct, all dismissed for good reasons, like being frivolous.
Now trying to fool Google ? LOL!


Yeah, future congessman with the many names, clear all of them. ROTFLOL.

[rinpoche]

Yeah, and ******* cohort Michael Zwebner got slapped with $40,000 in attorney's fees for filing a frivolous suit against CNN. Proving not only that these guys are corrupt but also quite stupid.

[happentometoo]

Well..I have read and read and read and still for the life of me cannot get the posts off Google about me .Called and Called ..Do I have to write them ?
I filed a complaint with the Arizona Attorney General and working to contact others ,even built a site ,just have to go in ,finish it and get it in engines .
This is so unreal to me .
But I am a fighter nor a whinner ,so I do what I have to do .
Thanks to all here for an interesting read .

[nwga]

Are ******* and Magedson connected? If not why are they mixed together?

On another note I just received this out of nowhere from Ed....

From :
Sent : Monday, June 19, 2006 4:02 PM
To :
Subject : liar

| | | Inbox


you are a real piece of work.

do not email us

do not call us again.

so not email us


| | | | | Inbox

Wow, is he on that**** or what?

[RoseDesRochers]

It wasn’t long, before I saw that Ed was someone who could not be trusted. I’m surprised his website is still in operation.

[infohighway]

I have been following this issue. It seems that Magedson has teamed up with another criminal, Robert Paisola to sell his Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation and Customer Satisfaction Program. See http://rip-off-report.blogspot.com/. It would appear from this site that Magedson's attorney and he have distanced themselves from openly soliciting for this service but will certainly offer it if asked. Now it would seem they have a plan in place. It is also interesting that for some reason Paisola has a Blog out there whereby he extoles the virtues of Magedson. This friend and supporter of Magedson has been to the Federal pen for more than one court of fraud and possession of child porn. Yes it seems if the information in this blog is right, the two of them have teamed up.

Here's the good news, I think I just found where Magedson lives. I will be offering it for sale to the highest bidder, though I don't know for the life of me why someone would want it. At least his detractors will get a chance to face him eye to eye. So here is my cover the ass statement. I will not provide this information to facilitate a crime or the harm to another. It is purely in the interest of justice. Once I confirm the address 100% I will look for a contract that holds me harmless of your actions. Several attornies have already been notified. More will be notified.

[infohighway]

Pictures of the Magedson compound posted at http://rip-off-report.blogspot.com/

[nwga]

Hey infohighway. PM me. I am looking to serve this guy.

[nwga]

Originally Posted by infohighway

Pictures of the Magedson compound posted at http://rip-off-report.blogspot.com/

This site is no more. Ed and company are truely a *****ful entity. He not only had it removed, but prior to it being removed posted under the author's name, Paladin. It was some incoherent gibberish with a link to ripoffreport.

This guy is scarey. He has several civil judgements levied against him. He's wanted on RICO charges, yet he operates with impunity. I must say I regret butting heads with this guy....He says hes got something special in store for me. With the people this guy is partners with, and that he is obviously above the law, I have to confess that I am a bit nervous for my safety. :(

[nwga]

Originally Posted by infohighway

Pictures of the Magedson compound posted at http://rip-off-report.blogspot.com/

Hey scam.com, were your ads pulled because of this link?!? Ed was REALLY pissed because that photo is REALLY where hes hiding, and infohighway was basically offering to sell him out to the highest bidder. Also, http://rip-off-report.blogspot.com went down almost simultaneously. If I were a gambler.....

[Wishyouknew]

The sad thing is people actually believe this website and believe much of it to be true.

[Judge Roy Bean]

Originally Posted by nwga

.... He has several civil judgements levied against him. He's wanted on RICO charges, yet he operates with impunity.

Can you provide links to the judgments? There's not a lot on the available systems to account for "several civil judgements." [sic]

And since those alleged RICO charges are federal issues and should be available on PACER, perhaps you can point us to the proper case numbers or maybe even another source of the case cites so we can verify your claims. They don't seem to be available on that system.

Knowing the federal system as I do, someone with a RICO warrant doesn't usually spend a lot of time wandering around free.

[Acaseoflife]

So sad about poor ole Ed ...NOT !
He is a case indeed ..
A friend got this from him and his staff in email ( I have her persmission to use anywhere I want to ) ...simply because she ask for info on some Sarah that types in often there llike she knows everyone there and knows no one but Ed and my friend also made a complaint on the squeaky wheel about Ed and his group ..in another email ,they call her an ASS ..for real people ..read this one ..then read my comments ....

"If you spam us again with any more email we are removing your comments from Rip-off Report and kicking you off the site.

You have been given a fair chance to post your comments and the BS comments from your friend.

If we get one more email from you, you are off the site for good.. and your comments will be removed.

We do not care what you say about us. anyone with half a brain will look at the Rip-off Report about you and figure out that you are a Rip-off and a nut job.

We have a policy,. anyone found to be threatening us with harm or doing harm to us, including spamming us with email from your email account. will be grounds for kicking you off Rip-off Report... along with any previous comments made by you.

Again, we dont care what you say about us. just dont send us emails. Maybe you should put your efforts into taking care of the customer you ripped off.

Do not respond.

DO NOT EMAIL US AGAIN FROM ANYWHERE.

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.and they did take off alot of her comments ..we have the whole page before and after printed out ....shows just what kind of people that really exist there doesn't it ..All here can talk about taking him down ...talk is talk ...so walk the walk ..take him down ,build sites ...hundreds of them ,you can get em free at tripod and yahoo and bravenet and a dozen more places ,one after the other ,put so much out there he is just another blimp on the screen ,I have 2 built and intend to do 100 more ,I can get em in search engines as good and as fast and as close as he can ..already have .. ,report it everywhere there is a place to report it at ,on the web and everywhere else ..what's he gonna do ..sue you ? In his mind it is only those that do wrong that sue ,maybe he will come out of the woodwork and actually sue one of us and then we got him ...walk the walk if ya talk the talk ..
Afraid ...nah ..he ain't worth it ,no one can be afraid if they tell the truth ..sure he knows people ,well so do I and so do you and if enough is put on about him that is true ,and something was to happen to any of us ,guess who they going after anyway ..yep ..good ole ED that is such a comsumer person that he and his 'staff' forget that the proof is in the pudding and not on their site ..That is a bunch of mangeled people with Jerry Springer on their minds ..I wonder if he could get his own show ...think that maybe that is whathe is after ..15 minutes of fame is hard to come by ..

[kenhere]

THEY REMOVE CHILD PORN FROM ORGANIC FILES.

eVERYONE NEED TO CONTACT GOOGLE AND EXPLAIN THE TRUTH ABOUT ED'S RIPOFF REPORT AND HIS EXTOTION SCHEME. His site was removed about ayear ago due to complaints, but he got it back up there. So if enough of us call and e-mail something will happen. Google is not an unfair company. So they can deindex ed's site. plus ed illegally uses your name in advertising and in his html codes and meta tags. I am sure you didnt give him permission to use your name.
Google's headquarters are located in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001
use our web form at www.google.com/support
abuse@google.com
legal@google.com

I called ,e-mailed, and faxed google over a two month period and finally someone in their adwords department helped me and got my ripoff report (URL) removed
All people who are attacked by ED's scam(he is in it for the money). Contact his service providers. He may have switched ,but just do a "whois" search on any of his sites. Contact google anyway you can. They remove child porn all the time. The more complaints the faster his whole site gets taken down.

More info: A

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:

rip-off report – Criminal Ed Magedson then joined forces with a group of criminals that form
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Everyone go to this site and explain your situation with ripoff report and their extortion scam. Ripoff report is illegally using trade marked names. Plus, Ed magedson and ripoff report is doing something else illegal to keep their site right next to yours. I do not know exactly what they do,but it is something. They use spam, robots, redirect,cloaked pages, illeagl use of your name,hiddnen text, deceptive redirects, repeated words,doorway pages, and who knows what else. If anyone knows more about how ed is doing this please post on this site or contact google.

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Directnic needs to know the extortion scheme that ed magedson is doing. Alot of people are being hurt by Ed and his scam. Plus do a google search on ed magedson and see for yourself. Ed is not out to protect the little people. How would you like if someone made up lies about you and posted annonymously on ripoff report and then ed made sure that this report(URL) was ranked on the first page on search engines. So if any customer loooked up your name or your company they would see all the annonymous slanderous, malicious, and illegal info. Then the only remedy would be to call ed and pay him thousands of dollars to join his consumer advocacy program(LOL) so your ripoff report(which was untrue) is changed. That is not right
DO A GOOGLE SEARCH ON "ED MAGEDSON"

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"Time keeps on slippin', slippin, slippin', into the future."

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a Bill signed into law this week it prohibits using a false identity to otherwise annoy, slander, libel or harass anyone on the Internet. Some who are posters on Blogs decry this because they say that that it is a violation of free speech, unfair and it should not be a Federal Crime.

Indeed interesting comments. Yet chances are we have all be slandered and libeled on the Internet by vindictive, nut cases. If we own companies, we have had competitors do this. Most often someone will make up something and make a fake name and try to destroy your brand name, personal integrity out of jealousy, competitiveness or simply spite.

If such slanderous attacks and libel were to be stopped all at once, we could have better quality communication and maybe people would not be so fast to attack someone if they knew it could be traced back to them? The Internet is the greatest communication device in the history of the human endeavor, we need to protect its integrity, so people should use their true identity, especially if they wish to slam another or libel them. Think how upset you were last time someone attacked you?

What if they didn't wouldn't that have the best for all concerned? So if it makes people think twice, it could turn out to be a very good law. I know why the law was created, because politicians would get attacked via slander comments from opposition, no wonder they all voted for it? They are tired of being attacked. So, that abuse now is coming back on those who falsify their identity only to slander, annoy or libel. So, anyway, some flipside comments for the debate here. Think on this in 2006.

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a Bill signed into law this week it prohibits using a false identity to otherwise annoy, slander, libel or harass anyone on the Internet. Some who are posters on Blogs decry this because they say that that it is a violation of free speech, unfair and it should not be a Federal Crime.

Indeed interesting comments. Yet chances are we have all be slandered and libeled on the Internet by vindictive, nut cases. If we own companies, we have had competitors do this. Most often someone will make up something and make a fake name and try to destroy your brand name, personal integrity out of jealousy, competitiveness or simply spite.

If such slanderous attacks and libel were to be stopped all at once, we could have better quality communication and maybe people would not be so fast to attack someone if they knew it could be traced back to them? The Internet is the greatest communication device in the history of the human endeavor, we need to protect its integrity, so people should use their true identity, especially if they wish to slam another or libel them. Think how upset you were last time someone attacked you?

What if they didn't wouldn't that have the best for all concerned? So if it makes people think twice, it could turn out to be a very good law. I know why the law was created, because politicians would get attacked via slander comments from opposition, no wonder they all voted for it? They are tired of being attacked. So, that abuse now is coming back on those who falsify their identity only to slander, annoy or libel. So, anyway, some flipside comments for the debate here. Think on this in 2006.

Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow

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Defamatory postings on the Internet are libel, not slander, under California law and plaintiffs may collect damages for them without demonstrating specific injury, the Sixth District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.

Justice Eugene M. Premo rejected the contention of two former employees of a Silicon Valley technological equipment manufacturer that the postings were best analogized to radio or television broadcasts, which if defamatory are classified as slander under Civil Code Sec. 46. The section does not mention television, but refers to communications which are “orally uttered, and also communications by radio or any mechanical or other means,” and has been construed to include television broadcasts.

Plaintiffs suing for slander must prove special damages, while in libel—defined by Sec. 45 as defamation by “writing, printing, picture, effigy, or other fixed representation to the eye”—damages are presumed.

Varian Associates Inc. and two of its executives sued Michelangelo Delfino and Mary Day after the two former employees posted a series of messages on an Internet bulletin board devoted to the company’s publicly traded stock. The messages maligned the company’s products and suggested that the two executives were incompetent and dishonest and that one of them, a woman, might have obtained her position by having sex with a supervisor.

After the suit was filed Delfino and Day intensified the message campaign and developed a Web site devoted to their allegations. They also vowed, Premo noted, to “continue posting until they died.”

A jury found the defendants liable for libel, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, and conspiracy, awarding $425,000 in general damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Jack Komar also enjoined Delfino and Day from repeating allegations he found to be untrue and defamatory.

Premo pointed out that the issue of whether defamatory Internet postings are libel or slander was not raised at trial, but said the court was exercising its discretion to consider it.

“The issue presented here involves a question that has arisen only with the advent of Internet communications,” Premo wrote. “Application of the common law to matters involving the Internet is of considerable public interest. Moreover, the distinction between libel and slander involves a practical difference in the requirements for pleading and proof so that the question is one that is likely to recur.”

Internet postings are not communications by “mechanical or other means” within the meaning of Sec. 46, the justice explained.

“Logic tells us that ‘mechanical or other means’ cannot apply to all mechanical methods for producing a communication,” he declared. “After all, the cause of action for libel arose with the invention of mechanical means for reproducing the printed word.”

The legislative history of Sec. 46, adopted in 1945, suggests that the Legislature intended to preserve the traditional distinction between libel as written and slander as spoken defamation, Premo said.

He wrote:

“We find the plain language of the defamation statutes is dispositive. That is, defendants’ messages were publications by writing. The messages were composed and transmitted in the form of written words just like newspapers, handbills, or notes tacked to a conventional bulletin board. They are representations ‘to the eye.’ True, when sent out over the Internet the messages may be deleted or modified and to that extent they are not ‘fixed.’ But in contrast with the spoken word, they are certainly ‘fixed.’ Furthermore, the messages are just as easily preserved (as by printing them) as they are deleted or modified. In short, the only difference between the publications defendants made in this case and traditionally libelous publications is defendants’ choice to disseminate the writings electronically.”

Premo said there was ample evidence introduced at trial to support the jury’s finding that the two former employees defamed the company and the two executives. Citing a law review article about defamation in cyberspace, he rejected the argument that Internet postings are typically so lacking in credibility that no reasonable person would take them as fact.

“Even if the exchange that takes place on these message boards is typically freewheeling and irreverent, we do not agree that it is exempt from established legal and social norms. The Internet may be the ‘new marketplace of ideas,’....but it can never achieve its potential as such unless it is subject to the civilizing influence of the law like all other social discourse. Some curb on abusive speech is necessary for meaningful discussion. We would be doing a great disservice to the Internet audience if we were to conclude that all speech on Internet bulletin boards was so suspect that it could not be defamatory as a matter of law. In effect, such a conclusion could extinguish any potential the forum might have for the meaningful exchange of ideas.”

In any case, the justice reasoned, the messages posted by Delfino and Day were “especially vituperative personal attacks” which were unlike other messages on the bulletin boards on which they appeared.

“If there were other postings on the boards that were more like defendants’ postings, they were not part of the record,” Premo commented, noting that there were “numerous messages that either directly assert or imply” that the female executive “was professionally incompetent, that she engaged in sex outside of marriage, that she was a liar, that she had sabotaged her laboratory at work, and that she held her position by having sex with a supervisor.”

The justice said the jury’s verdict was not undermined by the fact that the verdict form did not require jurors to specifically identify the postings they found to be defamatory, though he said “the better practice might have been” to the contrary.

“[O]ur review of the whole record satisfies us that even if there were some messages that were protected opinion or rhetorical hyperbole, the jury did not rest its verdict upon them,” Premo said.

But the justice said the portions of Komar’s injunction barring the defendants from asserting specific facts, such as that the female executive had sex with a supervisor, “that defame any person...in any of the ways specified” went too far and constituted an impermissible prior restraint on free speech.

The injunction was unlike one upheld by the state Supreme Court in Aguilar v. Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. (1999) 21 Cal.4th 121, Premo said, noting that the Aguilar injunction prohibited use of racial epithets in a workplace.

Aguilar lacked a majority opinion and Justice Kathryn Werdegar’s concurring opinion analogized the injunction to a time, place or manner restriction, Premo pointed out.

“None of the reasoning used to support the injunction in Aguilar applies in this case,” the justice said.

The portions of Komar’s injunction the court invalidated, Premo declared, prohibited “publications based upon their content and do not purport to limit that regulation in terms of time, place, or manner.”

He explained:

“Rather, they prohibit the written communications anytime, anywhere. Defendants are left with no alternative means of communication on those subjects.”

Justices Franklin D. Elia and William M. Wunderlich concurred.

The case is Varian Medical Systems, Inc. v. Delfino, H024214.