Fionn Downhill – Digital Shenanigans

Read the full report on the smear campaing against Elixir Interactive on www.elixirinteractivecomplaints.com.

This morning I received an e-mail from the ShoeMoney blog in response to my request to advertise my site http://interactiveseomoney.blogspot.com/ on their blog.  I knew I had never contacted ShoeMoney to advertise so I clicked on the link with interest.  It appears some low life spammer has decided that my name can make them some money.  They have created a blogspot blog offering my “amazing” SEO program for just $10 with a link to a Paypal account to pay.  They have then proceeded to drop spam blog comments all over the web to promote their scam and presumably make as much money as possible quickly.  The really scary thing is that after a half hour of trying to get a live person at PayPal they could not remove the fraudulent account which has been set up in our name.  They told me to contact an attorney.

This is either a sick joke since all detail about our company was correct or once again our good name and reputation is under attack.  I am sick and tired of how easy it is to hurt a name and brand on the web.  I was not a fan of changing the rules of the web but after so many years in online reputation management I now believe that the time has come for much stricter rules to protect brand, individuals and provide some protection against defamation and slander.    A few weeks ago a deliberate attempt was made to damage our name this may be be a follow up to that where they have now decided to try and damage my personal name.  Either that or there truly are a lot of naive people out there who would click on a Paypal link to pay $10 to be #1 in Google.  Otherwise why would these people keep doing this.

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