If you have found this page then it is very likely you have been a victim of Rip Off Report. rip off report is a well ranked site with google and the search engines and is therefore ver very tough to dela with. Once your company or name is on that website it will show up very high in your search engine rankings. Once this damaging website enters your search results it will stay ranked very high for your name until it is dealt with.
So, how do you deal with Rip Off Report when they have added bad info about your reputation? Below are a few idea's
Just Sue them?
– This is the first option most of our larger clients consider when they Manage Reputation. We have found that this is not a winning option. Rip Off Report is protected by laws passed in the mid 90's called the CDA or Communications Decency Act. This shields them from any lawsuit based on the content they host about you. So the short answer to the question is you may be able to sue and win in court the person who posted your Rip Off Report but you cannot successfully sue the website itself.
2. Proceed to Sue The Individual
This is a lawsuit you may win if you can prove what the person posted about you is false. The issue with this approach is how do you find the person and prove they posted the negative posting? Most people rarely use their real name but instead use aliases. It's not unlikely that you may be able to have a court order issued to force RipOffReport.com to hand over the individuals IP but this will usually lead nowhere. Even if you do get the end user's real address you may find that they used one of an number of ways to conceal the real IP or they simply posted the Rip Off Report from the coffee house, internet caffe or local bookstore. In many cases there in little or real "trail". After spending endless months and thousands of dollars just to find out the person used an alias and hid their true location. Even if you do find them and win a lawsuit this is not going to remove your Rip Off Report. The moment anything that is posted on the site it becomes their property. The individual who posted the report does not have the ability to ever erase the info.
