Tag: scams

The Rip-Off Report Website

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The website www.ripoffreport.com is about scams, reviews, complaints, lawsuits and frauds.
It says it is consumers educating consumers and the tagline is

“Don’t let them get away with it. Let the truth be known”.

This site has been going since 1998 and claims to have more than two million reports i.e. complaints, reviews etc.
The basic idea is that anyone can enter a “rip-off report” about any organisation and it will be published unchanged on the site.
This sounds a good idea in principle – giving aggrieved people somewhere to post their comment in order to warn others and it’s free to use.

Ripoffreport.com has a corporate advocacy programme, whereby they will visit companies and verify that they are good places to work, produce good products and treat their customers well. So it’s like a certificate for good business.
Although the site includes worldwide reports, it does seem to be mostly American. I typed in BT in the search box as BT is one of the most complained about companies in the UK and it found 90 entries but they are little local companies – transport, cakes, real estate. Not the BT we know in the UK.

The website has a legal resources section and a business directory amongst other things.

The owners get death threats and frequent lawsuits against them but they stand up for consumers. Good for them

That’s ripoffreports.com

What Are Those Time-Wasters Up To?

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So, what rubbish emails and calls have there been to Brooklands Radio station in the last few days?

An email from an American company looking for a distributor ($5,000 start-up charge) for their slip resistant floor treatments. – How many million emails would you have to send out randomly to get one reply from a real company wanting to be a distributor? Entirely pointless.

A scam email trying to get us to validate our Apple Id  – pathetic.

The usual advance fee scam but this time in French about Monsieur Phillippe Marcot supposedly dying of cancer and wants to leave us 850,000 Euros. – But of course there will be advance fees to pay to get to the money but then the money never materialises and we would be out of pocket.

An email with no content – just an attached zip file and the sender’s name is Cowboy Bob.  Highly appropriate

An email from Jim wanting to sell us email lists. He has lists for lots of different industry categories, chief executives, professions such as doctors, nurses, attorneys, accountants etc. – Judging by the volume of rubbish emails we get to out of date email addresses and people long since gone – these lists for sale are mostly out of date junk. Time waster.

These people just waste our time and clog up the Internet with rubbish.