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 have ever viewed any mob movies, then you know all about the usual extortion scheme. It works this way: The mafia will "guard" your business if you pay up regular protection cash. As an additional prompt to small business owners, if they fail to pay on time or at all, then the hoodlums will pay a visit to the store, menace the staff, and maybe even set the whole establishment on fire.
If you are obsessed with absorbing mafia tales, look at Wikipedia to see if you can find entries based upon "extortion racket" or "protection racket." You are going to read all about La Manu Niera and all of its dealings dating to the 1800s. Enrico Caruso, a tenor of days gone by, was once terrorized by La Manu Niera. He got a note insisting that he pay $2000, and so he did, yet after he paid up, he got yet another note that this time demanded some $15,000! After he got the police involved, several arrests came about thanks to his efforts.
Present-day Protection Racket: Scambook
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"
This website pretends that it is a free community site. This indicates that anybody at all is permitted to author a negative review on any type of business at Scambook.com. This clearly dismisses the whole concept of ethics and answerability because it empowers competitors to libel one another. It also permits dissatisfied customers to author libelous reviews on any given business without being challenged.
Yet Scambook.com is a business so it is all about the money. It expects businesses to pay $500 every month for the right to get in touch (through a form) with the original complainant of the libelous review. Thus, a business has to hand over about $6000 every year if it wants to get in touch with those people who are allegedly complaining about it. It goes without saying that any e-mail form is an automated type of technology, which means that Scambook.com hardly expends any cash on its own, but ends up producing quite a hefty profit from desperate business owners who want to repair their hurt business reputations.
Scambook injures reputable businesses
On the site Scambookscam.com, a business owner tells of her experience with Scambook.com. Damaged through the harmful reviews appearing on the site, said business strove to solve this issue, yet Scambook opposed the removal of the reviews despite the fact they were resolved.
Scambookscam.com also exposes how Scambook will stand in the way of posting complaints so long as a business, even those disreputable ones, keeps forking over $500 a month. The screwed-up reality is that Scambook suffers from a horrible rating from the BBB, yet it judges other businesses.
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.
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 class action suit forming against Scambook.com, and over 200 complaints have already been gathered. 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.
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 have ever viewed any mob movies, then you know all about the usual extortion scheme. It works this way: The mafia will "guard" your business if you pay up regular protection cash. As an additional prompt to small business owners, if they fail to pay on time or at all, then the hoodlums will pay a visit to the store, menace the staff, and maybe even set the whole establishment on fire.
If you are obsessed with absorbing mafia tales, look at Wikipedia to see if you can find entries based upon "extortion racket" or "protection racket." You are going to read all about La Manu Niera and all of its dealings dating to the 1800s. Enrico Caruso, a tenor of days gone by, was once terrorized by La Manu Niera. He got a note insisting that he pay $2000, and so he did, yet after he paid up, he got yet another note that this time demanded some $15,000! After he got the police involved, several arrests came about thanks to his efforts.
Present-day Protection Racket: Scambook
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"
This website pretends that it is a free community site. This indicates that anybody at all is permitted to author a negative review on any type of business at Scambook.com. This clearly dismisses the whole concept of ethics and answerability because it empowers competitors to libel one another. It also permits dissatisfied customers to author libelous reviews on any given business without being challenged.
Yet Scambook.com is a business so it is all about the money. It expects businesses to pay $500 every month for the right to get in touch (through a form) with the original complainant of the libelous review. Thus, a business has to hand over about $6000 every year if it wants to get in touch with those people who are allegedly complaining about it. It goes without saying that any e-mail form is an automated type of technology, which means that Scambook.com hardly expends any cash on its own, but ends up producing quite a hefty profit from desperate business owners who want to repair their hurt business reputations.
Scambook injures reputable businesses
On the site Scambookscam.com, a business owner tells of her experience with Scambook.com. Damaged through the harmful reviews appearing on the site, said business strove to solve this issue, yet Scambook opposed the removal of the reviews despite the fact they were resolved.
Scambookscam.com also exposes how Scambook will stand in the way of posting complaints so long as a business, even those disreputable ones, keeps forking over $500 a month. The screwed-up reality is that Scambook suffers from a horrible rating from the BBB, yet it judges other businesses.
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.
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 class action suit forming against Scambook.com, and over 200 complaints have already been gathered. 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.
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You can easily find articles exposing the scambook scam and its protection racket. There are even many scambook complaints on Complaintsboard.com and other complaint sites.
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