Mr. Difrawi must tell consumers and job seekers what it is he's marketing, put in place safeguards to protect job seekers, stop deceptive business practices and put an end to all frivolous lawsuits.
Over the years Mr. Difrawi has been involved with consumer fraud and has operated his businesses under several names including once The Small Business Loan Association [SBLA],Three Stars Media, Three Stars Inc now The Internet Company - internet-company.com, Career Network or CareerNetwork career-network.com, Internet Solutions Corporation, MediaLogic - www.medialogicinc.com/ www.mlinc.com or Monkey Jar Monkeyjar.com , Buzzgrub, Veriresume, USA Voice, USA-Voice Washington Post Report, Consumer Business Bureau, TooSpoiled, Impact 210, Instant Human Resources and many others. Many of these names are known to the Better Business Bureau of South Florida - BBB and you can check them out yourself if you wish.
Todd Ulrich of WFTV Channel 9 in Orlando, Florida has been keeping an eye on Mr. Difrawi's business practices and has published several investigative reports which can be found on YouTube. The Washington Post have themselves investigated Mr. Difrawi business practices.
Mr. Difrawi and his many companies have registered thousands of domains. These domains are used for publication of nonexistence jobs. This is Mr. Difrawi core business including Expand Inc of Florida and The Franchise Mall. Please click link at the bottom for partial listings.
When americans, public critics, job seekers or consumer advocate groups do post complaints or expressed their opinions regarding ISC or Three Stars Media or The Internet Company as they are now being called business practices, several things happened.
- The websites on which the postings are reported will experienced Ddos attacks. A Distributed Denial of Service Attack [Ddos]
- The General Counsel or Mr. Difrawi's Attorney will contact the site owner disputing postings and threaten lawsuits. He/She also contact the poster and request that the information posted be remove and retracted or a lawsuit would be file. In short, Mr. Difrawi apply legal threats, intimidation, bullying against bloggers.
- The ISP provider or hosting company of the site owner will also be contacted with the threat of lawsuit. In SFA case, the General Counsel Keith Kress requested that a "robot.txt file be put in place so as to prevent visitors, guests, search engines from indexing and visiting site.
- Mr. Kress also offer reimbursement to the ISP provider for lost revenue if they would entertain their requests. Essentially a "BRIBE"
- Defamatory statements about that person begin to appear all OVER the internet accusing that individual of being an Internet Terrorists and an Extortionist. This is done in colloboration with other site owners and webmasters.
- The personal information of that individual begin to appear online including the sale of the individual credit information and background via some online people search firm such as 123peoplesearch.com or usa-people-search.com mylife.com,Intelius Search, mylife.com aka reunion, reunion.com . In most cases the accusation of sex offenders and child molester are level against those critics.
- The individual name and siblings begin to appears in just about all searches [search words] with reference to fraudulent manufactured postings.
- In other cases someone "employed" by ISC will counter the claims, but more often than not ISC will start to make legal threats against posters and the people running those web sites.
- Following the legal threats, are litigation's where Mr. Difrawi claim Defemation, Libel, Slander, racketeering, Trade Libel, and Interference with Business Operation.
- In some of these law suits that have been filed, Mr. Difrawi have had his Business Associates filed complaints. He has also had employees filed false affidavits .
- Where legal threats have failed, other methods are deploy such as a smear campaign or the so called investigative reports, threats, intimidations and contacting anyone who may have knowledge of the poster,etc. etc. etc.
- An example of ISC in action is the frivolous lawsuit against blogger Tabatha Marshall. The lawsuit Internet Solutions Corp vs Marshall was dismissed and later appeal. Another was ISC/Alec Difrawi vs ScamFraudAlert.com which was dismissed as Anti-SLAPP LAWSUIT under California Law and equally applicable was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
A SLAPP LAWSUIT - Is a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) that is intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.
The plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate. A SLAPP is often preceded by a legal threat.
The plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate. A SLAPP is often preceded by a legal threat.
It is reasonable to assume given Mr. Difrawi past and present business practices that Mr. Difrawi engages in similar tactics against rivals and competitors.. More importantly, these practices can be consider Standard Operation Practices [SOP] as part of Mr. Difrawi arsenal of deceptive marketing campaigns.
Unhappy with these rulings, Mr. Difrawi continues his pursuit of bloggers with appeals up to the Florida Supreme Court claiming Florida citizenship as a principal place of business as the legal basis for his frivolous lawsuits.
Business Practices:
It has been documented that ISC gains control or limited administrative access to sites posting information and threaten the site ownwers with lawsuits. Two sites that formerly carried information on ISC but now appear to be compromised are scam.com and 419legal.org. In these cases, any posts critical to ISC are removed very quickly, clearly by someone with moderator access. These removals have never been explained.
Despite posting " bogus job offers" to hundreds of thousands of job seekers, it appears that these jobs offer do not exist. This is a marketing campaign. The only reported employment that ISC does is to recruit people to post on forums, bulletin boards, Yahoo Answers, SiteAdvisor and Wikipedia to dispute claims made by job seekers or complainants or to spam or disrupt blog or forum. A handful of people have been employed to handle phone calls or run the Florida operations, and one of them clearly identifies Alec Defrawy and Ralph Edward Bell in this WFTV report. Mr. Difrawi is marketing career education and that is his core business.
It is unclear what ISC does with the personal information that they gathered. It is most likely being sold to telemarketers as alleged, or is being use in promoting ISC and his other websites services. The allegation of phishing and identity theft against Mr. Difrawi are unproven.
Mr. Difrawi and his company Internet Solutions Corporation claim to have offices in several cities including New York, Los Angeles, London, Toyko, Beijing, Seattle-Washington, Las Vegas-Nevada, Washington D.C., etc. etc. etc.
ISC also try to conceals their identity using anonymous domain registration details, virtual offices and drop boxes. In fact, Internet Solutions Corporation or The Internet Company as they are now called which is owned and operated by Mr. Difrawi claimed in court filings that he Difrawi was/is a Consultant to the company when legal registration showed that the company was registered in Nevada and Mr. Difrawi was the Principal owner.ISC is based in Orlando rather than any of the fictional addresses they had published. Thanks to the reporting by consumer watchdog groups such as ours, ISC have since abandon those practices.
Mr Difrawi and his many companies are now claiming to adhere to "good business practices". However, we in the global consumer fraud watchdog reporting community believe the "Proof is in the Pudding.".
Mr. Difrawi must tell consumers and job seekers what it is he's marketing, stop deceptive business practices and put an end to all frivolous lawsuits.
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/i...ons-v-marshall
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