I’m seeing a very worrying trend appear currently where clients whom I’ve purchased de-indexing services for here in the past are getting blackmailed by random AI-generated websites in an attempt to extort money from the users. Those websites include:
I believe all three websites belong to the same entity. Their MO is to scour DMCA databases (which are public records), input contents of the de-indexed page into ChatGPT and spit out a BS article about the event to publish on their own site. The business model is brilliant as they’re targeting entities that have already displayed a propensity for paying for content removal and forcing them to pay yet again to remove content from their sites this time.
If you are purchasing de-indexing services, be aware that de-indexing that one link could very well lead to three new ones appearing by whoever is running these sites. I’ve had three clients get hit by these guys so far and according to their trustpilot page, they’ll repost the content again in the future even after paying them to have it removed.
Unfortunately no proof but just a gut feeling. All three sites are headquartered in Ukraine which definitely points in the direction of them being owned by the same entity.
@alpha, if you manage to obtain any info from the sellers here reselling their removals about who these people are and how they operate, please share here
Hi guys, this has actually been going on for over a year now. It’s for all de-indexing services that were done through DMCA as those are listed publicly on Lumen. It must be someone who knows how they work.
Have a whole investigation and they have admitted multiple times they own that whole network
