"Fake of lawsuit" aiming at deleting pages on which bad reputation was posted or hiding from search engines is being conducted

ByNorth Charleston

"That shop is delicious" "This item should be bought", etc. There are various information of the word-of-mouth in the world. The information is not always good, but there are also things related to bad services / bad products. Since such information is difficult to erase once it is circulated on the net, there are suppliers who do reverse SEO which will flood the information and conceal it in it, but in the United States you can delete the page or search engine index It seems that a "false lawsuit" aimed at erasing is being carried out.

Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages taken down or deindexed - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/


According to the Washington Post, there are about 25 "allegations of litigation". Both trials end in the form that the person who wishes to manage bad reputation becomes a plaintiff, appeals to someone, and the defendant agrees with the prohibition order. It is thought that there is a common organization behind the plaintiff, and although the address was found with 15 cases with respect to the defendant, it seems that it was impossible to find the defendant even if the private detective investigated.

In the first place, you can not obtain compensation from the defendant that was made up. Even so, the reason for doing a trial is that the possibility of receiving information from the site operated by Google, for example, deleting from the index is extremely low even if it makes a complaint from the front, while " If you bring a court order that it is "in order to use what is processed immediately.

A suspicious strategy in alleged online libel cases? [UPDATE: Ostensible plaintiff now says case was filed without his knowledge or permission] - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/08/19/a-suspicious-strategy-in-alleged-online-libel-cases/

Georgia Dentist Mitul Patel Takes Phony Litigation Scheme to New Extremes Trying to Suppress Criticism (CL & P Blog)
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2016/08/georgia-dentist-mitul-patel-takes-phony-litigation-scheme-to-new-extremes-as-a-way-of-suppressing-cr.html

One case is that Mr. Matthew Chan, who lives in Georgia, has posted negative reviews on dentist Mitsuru Patelle at review site Yelp and others. Several months after review posting to Yelp, the news that Mr. Chan got from Yelp administration received a message that "the court judged that your comment was slanderous, a deletion order came out" .

When Mr. Chang was surprised at this, it turned out that Mr. Patel and others took a case against Matthew Chan who lives in Baltimore and decided to delete the review written by Mr. Chan. However, Mr. Chan's spelling is "Matthew Chan", but the trial was "Mathew Chan". Mr. Chang lives in Columbus, Georgia, but the address of the appealed person lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Nonetheless, some review sites, including Yelp, received this court order and deleted Chang's review.

Steve Road lives in North Carolina, "Get Out of Debt Guy"A journalist dealing with debt relief that runs a site called wrote what is disadvantageous about a debt relief company. The company called Rescue One Financial who suffered from this suffered by appealing that a person named Deborah Garcia living in Rhode Island provoked the company with Brandley Smith as the plaintiff. I asked Google to remove it from the index with the court order and let me accept it.

Including other cases, this case trial began in November 2015, and it is known that it is "RIR 1984 LLC" led by Mr. Richard Rudy, but in Washington · It is said that I could not get comment in the post.