Web Site Offers to Ruin People's Lives for $20 a Month

The Times via Fox News ^ | August 13, 2007

[EveningStar]

A service offering a complete "revenge package" in which people can destroy the financial status and relationships of their enemies at the click of a mouse is being offered over the Internet.

For as little as $20 a month, customers of the confidentialaccess.com Web site can make the credit ratings of people they dislike plummet, and even have them suspected of fraud...

[dfwgator]

Cue AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.”

[EveningStar]

TaЯd ping!

The "tards" are the ping list members - not necessarily the subject of the thread.

[AU72]

They won’t survive the first lawsuit.

[dead]

The new "revenge" services are the latest example of the harm the Internet can cause individuals.

LOL! That bastard internet! I’m going to tell my assault rifle and my SUV to team up and kick his ass.

[Slings and Arrows]

The new "revenge" services are the latest example of the harm the Internet can cause individuals.

LOL! That bastard internet! I’m going to tell my assault rifle and my SUV to team up and kick his ass.

You're not going to let your pit bull play too?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Sounds like the owners of this website are asking for the same fate as that Russian spam king from a few years back - beat to death with a baseball bat in his own flat.

[BJClinton]

Ruin credit? Hello jail time.

[farlander]

Or... they’re just trying to collect buncha petty fool’s $20 a month. Seems to me it’s waaaay tooo much work to actually do what they’re offering, especially for a measly $20.

[JTHomes]

even have them suspected of fraud...

uh, isn't THAT fraud? Or at least libel? A-holes.

[Rameumptom]

Why waste 20 bucks, A call to the IRS is free and it can ruin your life too. /sarc

My dad was recently "audited". No indiscretions of course since he is an honest taxpayer but he had to pay an accountant quite a bit. He had to go back years through old files and try to round up receipts for old deductions. It cost him a ton of time and money, and of course he has done nothing wrong.

[Ignatz]

Saw the headline and thought DU had turned into a pay site.
But, no: You can still ruin your life for free over there.

[Feiny]

I will join that site as soon as my millions show up from Nigeria.

[Badeye]

I’m surprised anyone needs this service. Lord knows there are enough ‘how to books’ on the subject.

[Badeye]

Or... they’re just trying to collect buncha petty fool’s $20 a month.

Yep.

[MediaMole]

They might as well charge $1.00 since they are just going to harvest credit card numbers and — possibly — blackmail the users of their service.

“You have a problem with our new $1000.00 charge? I wonder what the person you targeted will say when we send your info to them and the local police?”

[bolobaby]

The money line is the last one:

"The only similar thing is one or two of the extreme right-wing Web sites which list addresses and suggest people go and beat up political opponents."

They're talking Britain, but you gotta love it...

[Doogle]

LOL..very good, I like that.....

[Grunthor]

I was actually considering starting a business along these lines a few years back, and yes it was going to be “Dirty Deeds.”

Nothing illegal, no “ruining lives” but practical jokes for revenge? Sure.

[Badeye]

The link provided gives up the dreaded ‘can’t access this website’ message.

No surprise. Either its already been taken down, or its being flooded with ticked off Freepers....

[darkangel82]

They dont know their right from their left.

[gridlock]

The nice thing about this scam is they will only be taking money from nasty people who want to ruin other people’s lives for $20. I can think of no group more worthy of being fleeced.

[Suzy Quzy]

Clintonoids no doubt.

[Badeye]

The nice thing about this scam is they will only be taking money from nasty people who want to ruin other people’s lives for $20. I can think of no group more worthy of being fleeced.

Yep. The irony is they can buy any of a dozen books I could name (but won’t in an open forum for the obvious reason) for the same $20, or even less.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Why bother?

If you want to ruin people’s lives all you have to do is vote for Hillary Clinton.

[polymuser]

Take their money via c-card, sell those numbers, do absolutely nothing for the money, stall any and all attempts at reimbursements until they’re too hot, and make money on the interest. Just like the other online scammers, but hooking those with nasty intent makes it almost funny.

[TheTruthAintPretty]

If you want to ruin people’s lives all you have to do is vote for Hillary Clinton.

I thought it was about ruining OTHER people's lives, not your own!

[goldstategop]

Only $20?? Man, that's dirt cheap for revenge.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[FreePaul]

It will be interesting to see if they have enough protection to get away with this. I doubt that an individual will be able to even find them much less do anything about stopping them. After all your credit rating now can be ruined by a reporting agency without any recourse.

A lot of what they claim to do could be done by an individual but probably not worth the risk. Fake documents don't seem to be very hard to get in the US, at least for illegals. Seems that at least part of what they are doing is taking advantage of the fraudulent "credit system" which is so arbitrary about ratings.

[phothus]

Hi Rameumptom,

I went through a similar ordeal, had to pay a quality lawyer quite a bit of money I couldn’t affort to deal with a mistaken identity problem. Someone had the same name as me, and had an offshore credit card and account. Cost a lot to show them that it couldn’t have been me.

Good lawyers are worth the money, though. I suspect if I didn’t have one I’d still be hounded.

[doodad]

They work on volumes and pass the savings on to the customer.

Me, I just rely on the slightly more expensive, but satisfying fecalgram (look it up) for my revenge.

[Robe]

Wasn't there a book titled “How to get even” published by the Underground Press in the late 60’s ????...
By Abby Hoffman (maybe?)

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

My mother is a small business owner and has been audited 3 times in the last 10 years, it is a complete nightmare and they always find error of somekind....meaning back taxes and penalties and interest. Once they get hold of you, they always comes back.

[null and void]

Me, I just rely on the slightly more expensive, but satisfying fecalgram (look it up) for my revenge.

Fecalgram. Hmmmmm.

Is your screen name short for doo-doodad?

[SteveMcKing]

Really... why don’t they just offer contract killings on their webpage?

It won’t last, they’ll be broke and in jail soon.

I only wonder how many copy-cat sites will appear, including those that are similar but legal and can’t be shut down.

[SteveMcKing]

The more I think about it- these people are so dead. They never heard of forgery? They seriously think that large financial institutions will allow false applications and harassment of their customers?

The law will come down like a ton of bricks. They'd be in less trouble for bank robbery soon.

[longtermmemmory]

an old timmer gave the best advise.

NEVER give them too comfortable a place to work. They will hang out for days.

[N. Theknow]

Web Site Offers to Ruin People's Lives for $20 a Month

Well, I'll be damned!

My ex-wife found a job!

Doesn't pay much obviously. But it's a job.

[Logophile]

My dad was recently "audited". No indiscretions of course since he is an honest taxpayer but he had to pay an accountant quite a bit. He had to go back years through old files and try to round up receipts for old deductions. It cost him a ton of time and money, and of course he has done nothing wrong.

Every time someone starts to whine about the Patriot Act, the DHS, the NSA, etc., I remind them that the IRS is far more intrusive and overbearing than those other agencies.