AboutEveryone.com, still in beta, allows anyone to put in any Facebook user’s profile URL and comment about them anonymously. There are no extra steps.
Already, the site has spawned comments that range from insults like: “She’s a total b—-! She runs around saying she’s your friend, but then talks all kinds of s— behind your back!” Some comments question or plead, “Why don’t you stop lying too much to people?! … You need to grow up and live to up to your mistakes.” Others are thankfully a little kinder. Some users post about love lost and the rest are just complimentary; one person writes that a certain Facebook user “is beautiful” and another claims someone is the “most amazing kisser” offering to have his children.
The information does not alert the receiver of what you have said about them, or so it seems, and as of yet there are no other options to manage your comments. Though it does appear that AboutEveryone might be keeping some sort of tab on you as it knows which profiles you’ve visited and the site says it plans to support the removal of content in the future.
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September 22nd, 2011 7:20 am
they don’t seem to give a way for ppl to give feedback for improvement… they say they’re in beta? yet we can’t give feedback? that’s just absurd.
September 22nd, 2011 12:57 pm
I agree with you, simple things like that are not properly thought throught by developers :/
November 29th, 2011 9:59 am
The website was custom-built for “Extortion Through Coercion”, and I’ll explain how. It’s probably one of the simplest, and most potentially lucrative Extortion scams in the history of the internet, and in that regard, I take my hat off to it’s creator, who shall remain nameless for this particular post. It’s pretty simple really – build a website, automatically linking more than 1 Billion current Facebook & Twitter users to it, each with thier own unique pages. Search Engine Optimise these profiles for the convenience of stalking bitter exxes & various enemies. Provide a simple anonymous comment box with NO restrictions to censorship or content posted. Indemnify themselves from legal liability for the nature of comments posted, claiming they are merely just a “service provider”. Provide no options for comment removal, for both posters and profile owners alike. Watch angry & bitter crowds go to anonymous-comment war on each other, whipping themselves into a frenzy, and sending angry emails by the hundreds to have numerous comments removed. Wait a few weeks until tensions are at an all-time high, then simply send a reply email to all emailing users stating that “Profiles can now be removed”. Watch frantic crowds of comments posters and profile owners, rush through a door with a $19 exit fee – The permanent profile removal fee, for a site they never asked to be on in the first place. Now times that $19 by Thousands if not Millions of Facebook/Twitter users doing exactly the same thing, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for the biggest Extortion scam since Social Networking was invented. It uses coercive tactics of shame and public defamation to psychologically force users through an exit with a $19 Fee. By indemnifying themselves from legal liability to the nature of comments though, they cover thier backs, and could easily claim in court that it was designed for positive comments, knowing full well that it wouldn’t be. Online Extortion at it’s finest – well done guys! Ruin peoples lives and reputations for your own personal profit. Enjoy the day karma comes back to strike you
November 30th, 2011 5:28 pm
Awesome comment Anon
December 17th, 2011 3:58 am
You are absolutely right – these were my thoughts exactly. I will add a few of my own as well. First of all, I found this site by accident – doing the occasional search of my own name as I do from time to time to see if anything new pops up. This did. Now let me say this. I have Facebook, although I virtually NEVER use it. I have THREE friends. One is my sister. The comments posted on me on the AboutEveryone.com site has close to 400 likes and dislikes combined! I don’t know that many people. I do not know anyone motivated to say the things posted about me, allegedly by persons who claim to know me. Logic tells me that someone OTHER than people I might know posted these comments. WHO? I suspect that THE VERY PROPRIETORS OF THIS WEBSITE may be to blame! Make their own customer base by creating this defamatory site, make posts themselves and then have the only way out be to pay money! Further, what about PayPal? I see extortion and racketeering lawsuits with this site as well as PayPal and even Facebook becoming defendants in those lawsuits! Finally, knowing all of the negative things I have seen, read and heard about how the owners of Facebook make a fortune by aggressively tracking and selling the information of its users, I say I feel it is time to close my Facebook account. If enough people did so, or at least THREATNEDED to do so, perhaps there would be motivation to operate their site responsibly and with due confidentiality. This is one of those things where MANY people must aggressively speak their minds to this site, to Facebook and to PayPal, as well as legal channels! I know I will.
January 27th, 2012 8:13 pm
This site is allowing bullying. I do not have a facebook account yet there are comments under my name saying im a thief , that i went to jail. Horrible untrue things. my childrens names and our address is listed on this site. I do not know what to do. i have contacted the police in three states and counties, i had a facebook account briefly but closed it early on, how do i make this go away …
February 1st, 2012 8:36 pm
Have you found ouy how to remove your site profile yet?
February 1st, 2012 8:44 pm
Hi. Your post is absolutely true. Awfull. How can my profile be removed?
December 9th, 2011 4:47 am
Repulsive. I have been “added” to this web site with out my knowledge until someone made me aware. I have been slandered and called every evil thing in the book. Fine, I am an adult, thank goodness and take it as a complete fraud. NOW…. I can take the “negative” comments, my issue is “someone” posted my social security number, phone number and address, and place of employement. NOT ACCEPTABLE. I am now completely open to any and all fraud. My children have also been looped into this by the “network” I am sure this illegal on some level, especially seeing the recent happenings with Rodemeyer. Someone should have to answer for this. There must be some degree of accountability and monitoring. My safety and that of my family has been compromised. I am deeply concerned that this is allowed to go on. Can’t this be stopped somehow? I have just figured this out today, and am looking at options. Thinking of going to the police and seeing how my personal information is protected. Doesn’t the FTC or someone have rulings over this?
December 9th, 2011 7:34 pm
This is a big problem, I am not sure who regulates it and if anyone will take action, but someone should sue them.
December 11th, 2011 12:09 pm
Hey Andrea, I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve already filed an official complaint on ic3.gov, as I’m assuming a number of others would’ve too. IC3 is the American FBI’s Internet Crime Department. The only catch is that the sites creator, Christopher Poole, is friends with them. He testified, and provided evidence for them in a Federal case against an anonymous user of another one of his sites, 4chan.org. The user hacked into Sarah Palin’s email account during the last Presidential campaign, and Chris provided them with enough evidence and testimony to convict him – so I guess you could say they owe him a favour. He’s also friends with Facebook – he created some kind of photo imaging software for one of thier divisions as a side-project of another site he’s created, Canvas. So in a nutshell, he’s friends with the 2 biggest companies that would otherwise be the quickest to bring him, and this site down. Therefore, I think it’s a story for the papers – even though “bad publicity” is better than none at all for a scam like this. It’s a Catch-22. Otherwise you can bite the bullet, do exactly what he wants you too, and pay the $19 Extortion fee.
December 17th, 2011 9:37 am
Surely some hotshot lawyer can see the benefit of a class action suit here? This site must be illegal at some level. I cannot believe that extortion and slander at a global level can possibly be legally allowed without potential consequences. I hope someone picks up this idea and starts a class action suit. Anyone that has ever been posted on AboutEveryone.com will sure join the suit.
December 17th, 2011 10:16 am
While researching I randomly found inflammatory comments on a friends profile from far back, when I’d visited before multiple times it was always blank. The messages were as follows: “(309 days) Is Cheating….”, “(296 days) don’t trust this person!!!!!”, “(83 days) yes be aware..” with a random number of up/downs for each comment. Believing my friends psycho ex had done it, I of course went to my friends defense and posted a brief comment. As soon as I did, 2 of the comments disappeared into the ether as if they had never been there. I pulled up a different browser and went to the link, and only my comment showed then. I refreshed the original browser and all comments disappeared, but not before I got a good screenshot and downloaded the page, scripting and code.
At work, on a completely separate IP address with a different identity I visited my own profile, and low and behold what did I notice, the EXACT same inflammatory comments. I’ve taken screen shots of these as well, and downloaded/exported as much of the code/scripts as I could. It would seem that after you visit, or after anyone’s profile is checked, a small delay in time is all it takes for their PHP server to upload some fake derogatory comments in order to attempt and get money from the “remove” profile link.
This doesn’t mean that some of those posts on there aren’t actual rants, but I believe most people will end up with some derogatory comments in a simple effort to extort money out of them.
December 22nd, 2011 5:22 am
Hey Brian,
I am glad I received the same comments as your friend this morning when I looked up my name. Was extremly worried that some very disgruntle friends existed in my life.
In regards to screenshots I Unfortunately did not take any screen shot of when I found my profile and picture on this site. 20 thumbs up and 11 thumbs down IS CHEATING and a varation for the other two comments (don’t trust this person and yes be aware).
When I re-visited the site from work later on during the day the numbers of thumbs up and thumb down jumped into the hundreds within a matter of 3 hours.
I think their is some glitches in their beta and their thumbs up and thumbs down counters
!! I bet the fee we pay to have our names removed forever has no problems depositing all the cash.
Can we say this is extreme FRAUD and I hope the internet world does not take this website seriously. My only hope is nobody pays to have their names removes but keeps looking up their names everyday as many times possible to rake up server hosting traffic charges. Although bandwidth is not as costly as it used to be. Internet traffic is stil internet traffic and it should cost this clown something in the end I hope.
December 30th, 2011 7:38 pm
just found out about abouteveryone.com this morning when my wife tell’s me that she sees a website that has comments on it about my cheating and not being trustworthy. We did a little research and she is relieved to see that so many others have had the same things posted. I on the other hand am PISSED
January 6th, 2012 12:01 pm
I have the same problem as I googled my name, I saw my picture and my facebook link, it was more than 4000 dislike and more than 3000 likes, when i only have few friends on my list ( says, i was cheating, be aware, don’t trust this person..) I’m glad to read all of your comments, knowing that i shouldn’t be worried, still disliking it
I hope they get what they deserve!
December 29th, 2011 4:46 pm
Hey I got my picture taken as well and just like you said after a comment was made and I went back in all comments were gone even mine. I think it is a safety measure so they can say see there is nothing about this guy on here. Preventing his ass from getting sued.
January 7th, 2012 4:28 am
OMG i’m sooo glad i say this post. I saw my husband’s profile on this website with the exact same comments and it made me feel terrible!!! what a relief to know it is a total scam!
January 15th, 2012 3:35 am
Brian,
I have the same exact comments written on my name as you do on your name.
While googling myself to make sure my name was clear for employment opportunities, I came across this scam of a site. Under my name, I have “is cheating…,” “don’t trust this person!!!!!!!,” and “yes be aware..” written, along with upwards of 50,000 thumbs up/thumbs down combined on the comments.
I knew something was fishy about this because first of all, I don’t know 50,000 people, and second of all, nothing I have done in my past warrants these types of comments.
On one hand I’m glad I’m not alone on this, knowing now this could well be one of the greatest scams in internet history, but on the other hand I am extremely frustrated that the only way out is to pay the fee.
January 15th, 2012 8:26 pm
I had exactly the same three comments, but I put the owners on blast with an angry email and a comment on my abouteveryone profile regarding extortion/slander/defamation.
Et voila- slanderous comments went bye-bye!
However, my profile still remains, which I am not happy about. Has anyone had their’s successfully removed?
December 18th, 2011 8:18 pm
Brian,
I was searching my name on google and came across this. I thought who would write “I cheated” when I never have in my life on anyone. When I realized you had to pay $ to remove yourself, I thought extortion!
So I did a little searching around the internet about this site. I came across your post. My profile says the exaxt same thing as what you wrote. (311 days) is Cheating…. (298 days) don’t trust this person and (91 days) yes be aware. Also there were over 500 thumbs up and thumbs down for each of those posts. I thought “Why would so many people respond to a couple words?”
Now reading your post, those comments are fake and are not put on there by anyone I know but the website itself.
January 5th, 2012 1:40 am
Jennifer, I have EXACTLY the same 3 comments under my name. I have HUNDREDS of likes and dislikes and I am a very anonymous middle aged working mom of two who has had a pretty boring (thank you very much) life. The comments were posted about the same time as yours – within a few days – and I assume we have no connections – I don’t live in the US.
January 10th, 2012 11:29 pm
My profile says exact the same thing as Jennifer says, which is disturbing, annoying.In my case there are over 4000 likes and dislikes. I suspect those comments are automatically generated by the website it self. If it is some once comment they should have not asked money to remove it.
Anyway It is a great releif to know the comments are fake. Abouteveryone.com,Please stop such illegal things just to steal money from innocent people. Lets use the social media for something better.
December 22nd, 2011 10:15 pm
Oh my goodness! I am looking for a new job and my recruiter called me about a google search. I was also convinced it was a psycho ex.. So paid the fee to have my profile removed. Was really down about it though so started to read about it on line.. Had the same comments.. ‘is cheating’ 315 days ago, ‘don’t trust this petson’ 309 days ago and ‘yes please be aware 15 days ago’. All with 3-400 likes/dislikes. Was seriously para about it for a little while, but very relieved to read the comments above!
December 26th, 2011 11:47 am
oh that makes me feel a lot better.. i had the same comments on my profile (is cheating.. dont trust this person.. yes please be aware..)
just couldnt make sense of it, was scratching my head as to who would write such a thing and why.. so its obviously a scam.
too late, ive just paid the 10 usd to get the thing removed. never mind my 10 bucks, but i hope the developers dont get away with this.
December 27th, 2011 6:36 am
The parties involved should and will be prosecuted. To ruin anyone’s reputation can be dangerous and we should all pursue a class action lawsuit! ASAP! I will be doing some research and I will find out how to start an action against these people! You can loose jobs, not get a job, go into depression ….. All sorts of problems can happen due to this website they are a bunch of criminals who are trying to bribe people into making them pay to take their names off the website
January 10th, 2012 8:47 am
Thanks Jennifer we will help..
January 14th, 2012 11:01 pm
Please keep us posted
December 27th, 2011 9:46 am
Have just discovered myself as part of this scam. Same comments as the above ladies i.e: “is cheating”, “don’t trust this person”, “yes be aware”. My outrage is palpable and have taken the matter to the local police here in Australia and plan to take it a lot further. Does anyone know if dumping facebook deletes the problem or do you have to pay the extortion fee to have the fraudulent comments removed?
December 28th, 2011 8:47 am
I just typed in my info in google search, and guess what appeared?
…(is cheating.. dont trust this person.. yes please be aware..)
I guess I am the fortunate one here with over 15000 thumbs up and down
I have just deactivated my facebook account to see if it will work, and have sent the website an email asking to be removed.
December 29th, 2011 4:50 pm
Hey I found from one of the above Brians that if you post something yourself then go back later it all disappears. So take a screen shot first that way we all have proof it says the same thing that will help prove the site is creating all the bad comments making it illegal I am sure due to all they want is money to have it removed.
December 28th, 2011 11:52 pm
hello
i have just googled my name and this came up too!!! i have 3 negative comments 1.) is cheating 2.) dont trust this person 3.) Yes be aware ….. and 2983 have given thumbs up to ALL THREE and 2187 have given THUMBS DOWN to all three ….. firstly, WTF is going on and secondly, what rights do you have as this is obviously fraud / a con to get you to pay £19. 00 ….. im in london btw.
December 28th, 2011 11:55 pm
OMG im a london girl and just googled my name .. this website came up 3rd with these 3 negative comments 1.) is cheating, 2.) dont trust this person, 3.) yes be aware …… i have 2987 votes up and 2143 votes down for ALL THREE!! what is going on?? who is this?? how can they get away with this??? my daughter is 14 and on facebook and am so worried this will ”get her” too!!! what can i do with out paying the 19 dollors??
December 29th, 2011 2:28 am
i wouldnt bother paying the fee, its already on google and probably archived now.
what i would do is just make good comments instead and flood it randomly if you have the time to do so
December 29th, 2011 7:53 am
FYI:
After my previous post, I went in and sent an email to the site, asking them to please remove my profile.
I expressed my concerns that I “must pay to have it removed?”
I re-read Brian’s post, went to my “profile”, and wrote, “she’s lovely”.
A couple of hours later, I checked the site, and the 3comments 1.) is cheating, 2.) dont trust this person, 3.) yes be aware ……
had disappeared. Just my “she’s lovely” remained.
Today I received a very short response from the company, that said, “I will remove your profile.What is your profile url?”
It now has been removed.
I hope this helps
December 31st, 2011 5:16 pm
What is their email address?????
January 1st, 2012 11:08 am
Hi there,
I’ve just googled myself in this new year and was shocked to see my name and my FB account in the top 3 hits in google. One of which is this bastards site, AboutEveryone. And yes, as mentioned above, the comments that are on my profile are, 1. is cheating, 2. dont trust this person, and 3, yes be aware. I’ve tired what one of you said earlier, by writing something good on my profile and I did. Hopefully it works. I’ve also e-mailed the site to have it removed. Will update when I received anything. @Brenda, their e-mail is, contact@abouteveryone.com. All the best and Happy New Year everyone!
January 3rd, 2012 4:23 am
You know what I was scammed the same way, and I am doing my research and actually where the comments posted by this scammer… I put how much of a scam the company is to everyone and Chris Poole (the loser creater), on there to research and how much of a scam he is, how about a dose of your own medicine.
January 1st, 2012 11:22 pm
I have emailed them as well and deactivated my facebook account for now.
I hope they will remove my profile free of charge.
Can you guys please keep me up to date as to whether the company has responded?
This site is causing me panic attacks
*cries*
January 2nd, 2012 7:40 am
Don’t fret over it Amanda, it is all just a scam and the only person generating the hateful comments is the website itself. I did some research and from what I’ve read it is all just the work of this guy Chris Poole who is just trying to extort money from people by making them pay to have their profile taken down. If he does it for free then obviously do that but do not pay $19 to have it removed. I found 3 comments on my page all identical to other peoples claiming that I was cheating and such when I wasn’t even in a relationship at the time and all with over 2000 likes and dislikes. Many people are trying to take legal action to have the site removed because it is a complete scam and illegal!
January 1st, 2012 11:44 pm
Hi,
I have also emailed them a few hours ago, and have deactivated my facebook profile until this gets resolved. Can anyone confirm whether they will remove profiles for free now, as Cate msg seemed to imply that she did not pay anything for her profile to be removed?
Thanks everyone
January 2nd, 2012 5:53 am
Thanks Angela for post the email for everyone.
My profile was removed, and I did not pay anything.
If I google my name, there is still a link there, but when I click on it, it says “Profile was removed”.
I reinstated my facebook as soon as it disappeared, and all is good!
I am hoping that it eventually disappears, but as it stands, nothing else shows.
Good luck to you all.
@Amanda: hun, if someone really wants to believe the crap they read on the internet that slanders someone, you shouldn’t associate with them anyways
love and light
January 2nd, 2012 8:38 am
Hi Cate,
Thanks so much for getting back to us. I’m really glad that they are removing profiles for free. I wonder how much longer I have to wait before they will remove my profile. *sigh* wish they would get back to me soon.
I wasn’t worried about what friends might find on the website, but I’m rather worried about how it might affect my professional image when I start looking for a job later on in the year. Companies these days always google your name, and I certainly do not want them to find any website saying that I am not a trustworthy person!
January 2nd, 2012 11:11 am
I came across this website 14 days before my wedding and there were comments on my Fiance’ page about cheating……now if it wasn’t for the fact that I trust and know him so well, this could of resulted in no wedding……this is not kool to play with peoples lives!!!! Now we want his profile removed!! I HAVE EMAILED THEM, I HOPE THEY RESPOND TO THIS MATTER IMMEDIATELY!!!!
January 2nd, 2012 6:06 pm
Gosh, I am sorry the wedding didnt go through, this is certainly playing with fire (playing with people’s life’s).
January 2nd, 2012 8:39 pm
Omg! I was shocked when i read that people that i don’t know said something bad about me. But thanks God that i found this blog, so i know that http://www.abouteveryone.com is just a f**king rubbish to earn money and ruin others life.
January 2nd, 2012 8:43 pm
Omg!!
January 6th, 2012 5:38 pm
Have they removed you?
January 3rd, 2012 9:16 pm
There’s ANOTHERone!!!!!! Same s##tty type of site. nosecrets.me How do we get these people to stop????
January 3rd, 2012 10:06 pm
its pretty much impossible
but you have to notice that most of these sites use whats called in the internet world as a ROBOT, meaning it automatically searches other sites to copy and paste comments onto their site.
January 4th, 2012 4:55 pm
I was able to send a threatening email to the “nosecrets.me” admin people that I would sue them and now when I check the profile it has disappeared and the website is redirected to the “go daddy” website!!! Hurray!!!!!! Maybe there IS hope!!!!
January 5th, 2012 8:59 am
This is a way to make money and it is horable. It gives people no accountability for what they say. People are allowed to bully on another while someone gets rich. Dose it not matter if people take it to far and causes someone to kill themselves their not resonsable. Not getting a job is the low end of what the people who write mean things and the people who run this website are going to have to answer for.
January 6th, 2012 10:01 pm
The comments haven’t been removed for me yet…..I posted a comment after the same three evil comments described by everyone here….emailed them to remove me….
January 6th, 2012 7:12 am
There is now a petition of facebook to stop this site, you may want to join in: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-to-prevent-AboutEveryonecom-from-posting-anonymously-about-you/171857616196290?sk=wall
January 6th, 2012 5:36 pm
I googled myself a few days ago to find abouteveryone.com having a profile for me. I couldn’t believe I was reading this. And then found out that apparently they just choose random people to blackmail to try and get money from them to delete the profile. They post the same exact thing on multiple profiles with thousands of thumbs up?? Whats the point?? They are such losers…..I wrote 2x, lets see what happens. I will not pay on principle. Instead, I just post comments about how deceiptful they are. Maybe I will turn it into a blog about bullshit on the web.
January 6th, 2012 9:41 pm
what email address do I use to email abouteveryone to have the comments removed….which, btw, are the same comments everyone else has experienced. I’m trying the solution of posting something about myself and reloading as I type this….and will deactivate my facebook account. Thank you so much for all your sleuthing, honesty and help!
January 6th, 2012 9:45 pm
Thank you for all your information and help about abouteveryone….the comments I found were the same as everyone’s post here indicates they use; I’m trying the solutions you all have shared about posting a comment myself; I’ll be shutting down my facebook account; I would like to email abouteveryone to remove me, but I don’t see an email address posted….only the extortion link….what email address are folks using to demand to be removed? Thank you all for your concerted effort at figuring out the behind the scenes of all this silliness and meanness…..
January 7th, 2012 3:59 am
I was informed this evening by a family member that the slanderous comments “yes be aware”, “don’t trust this person” “is cheating” were posted alongside my Facebook profile on http://www.abouteveryone.com. Not only is this illegal and completely slanderous, it’s extortion. This can ruin my professional career, livelihood and reputation. After literally getting sick to my stomach, I researched the website and learned this is a disgusting scam. I emailed the website to remove immediately. They had better remove my information immediately as I have contacted my attorney and I am ready to take legal action. I have documented the slanderous comments posted and the email sent to the website.
January 11th, 2012 5:00 am
Me too, i had the same comments and sent them many emails but they still have not removed my profile.
January 7th, 2012 11:15 am
I just discovered that I had a profile on this website with the same comments as previously mentioned (‘is cheating, not to be trusted, be aware’) and couldn’t get my head round it until I found this website (after investigating the website, as you would) this is crazy! The first comment on my profile said that the comment was made over 300 days ago, now me and a friend googled my name about 7 months ago and this information wasn’t there and now its saying this comment was made months before I made that search? Very suss to me, I wish there was a way to make the people responsible pay…this kind of abuse of personal privacy could be so damaging to peoples lives. Where is the real life Erin Brokovich!! Anons post on December 11th really hit home to me that this kind of internet scam is not easy to argue with, I guess I am going to shut down my facebook account which sucks because I am from the UK but live in Australia and facebook is how I keep in touch with friends and family. Thanks a lot Christopher Poole, I really do hope you get what you deserve
P.S Im married, thank god my husband trusts me and informed me that b**lshit was being written about me, if my marrigae had suffered because of this I would be coming to find you…
January 9th, 2012 6:17 am
To those of you who have paid, is it safe? Is it really only a one time fee? I can just smell identity theft all over this.
January 9th, 2012 6:20 am
Is this safe to pay? I can smell identity theft all over it
January 9th, 2012 6:21 am
WHAT THE HECK?! For those of you who have paid, is this safe? Is there a way I can pay with say like a gift visa card so that I don’t have to enter my name or address? I smell identity theft alll over it.
January 9th, 2012 11:51 pm
Ive found myself on this website too. Interestingly enough, it shows up when I look at my profile on firefox, but not in Internet explorer.
I have tried putting my own commetn on there saying that these are the same comments made innappropriately on many other profiles and they’re invalid.
If that doesnt get them removed or my profile deleted, I’ll try the email to the company. Can anyone that had had theirs removed offer some advise on the wording they used in the email that has been successful ??
January 10th, 2012 1:07 am
Hope someone in here will be able to help you out, I know some people have paid, but unsure if it works.
January 10th, 2012 9:55 am
regarding the payment issue: https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Security-and-protection/www-abouteveryone-com-using-paypal-to-collect-extortion-money/td-p/387228
I wouldn’t pay a cent to this scam. instead, post this on the page you’re concerned about – This website is a scam. These horrible comments are fake and have been posted to numerous other people as well in the hopes that we will pay to have our profiles removed. But I refuse to pay for something to be removed that I never agreed to have put up in the first place. This website aims to hurt and embarrass people in order to make money. It is disgusting. The owners of this site should be ashamed.
Hopefully someone with the right skills will hack this bastard site! anyone?!?!
January 12th, 2012 10:15 am
Hi all,
Just an update – I have had no luck in trying to get my profile removed. I am even willing to pay, however, they have just taken down the option to remove the profile off their site. Has anyone had any luck?
January 12th, 2012 9:35 pm
I also had the exact same comments on my “Profile” with 3000+ likes and about 4000+ dislikes going back 336 days.
I just emailed contact@abouteveryone.com and asked them to remove my profile, I will keep you posted if they respond.
January 13th, 2012 12:58 am
The following is the comment that I posted on my Abouteveryone profile, for peice of mind
Follow this link to prove that this website is using fraud and extortion to try and get money out of people…
http://www.smoothblog.co.uk/2011/03/21/abouteveryone-website-publishes-commen ts-facebook-users/
Benn
January 13th, 2012 1:08 am
I added a comment with a disclaimer to refer to this website smoothblog to prove that abouteveryone is a scam
January 14th, 2012 1:05 am
Thank you Benn
January 15th, 2012 5:14 am
I’m glad to find this blog. However, I’m not happy that this website has information about me while I’m trying to search for a job to take after the college.
January 15th, 2012 3:10 pm
I am glad that a lot of you are posting your comments about this, maybe this should be taken to a next level/step by maybe doing a petition, where the government can close the website once and for all.
January 16th, 2012 2:38 am
i have the same problem.i have been added to this website with the same 3 bad comments : “yes be aware”, “dont trust this person” and ” is cheating” w/ thousands of likes & dislikes…the same with you i deactivate my accounts in twitter,facebook and myspace blog.i research about the website and i learned its a scam.they’ll let you pay $19 to remove your name.They even posted a (Singapore)phone number which is not my number.so i’d say to this website abouteveryone.com – please be professional.stop devastating anyone and if you want to earn money, earn money in a good way.i hope the government will give attention to this kind of scam.
January 16th, 2012 10:09 pm
I found the same three sentences ‘be aware”Dont trust this person’and ‘is cheating’ and there is my fb pic! Im so sad my bf will freak out if he see this as we have long distance relationship
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January 17th, 2012 9:52 am
Hey guys, here too I had the same comments (which I think are added by the scammers of the website, using bots. Cookies added due to the fact that you log into facebook with your usual browser). Try using a different browser, like firefox, to view their page or DELETE your cookies and refresh the page – their comments gone! That means nobody else can see these “anonymous” comments. Their Whois database is “WhoisGuard” protected, so they hide in their holes like the vermin they are.
January 17th, 2012 3:04 pm
ah ah ah…the creator of this programme has us exacty where he wants us.
IGNORE THE BUGGER…HE WILL EVENTUALLY GO AWAY…if you keep paying him
he will just get richer….i feel sorry for him cuz karma has a terrible
way of biting you in the butt when you least expect it!!!!
January 20th, 2012 2:55 am
Pretty much everyone in my school has on of these. It’s terrible. People from my school often right terrible , defamatory things on not only mine but everyones profiles. It’s embarasing, and it’s a form of bullying that needs to stop. I’ve already been down enough just by looking at these comments. Atleast if the website exsists you should have to option to sign up for it or not. It’s ridiculous and an invasion of privacy that they’re doing. Please stop this! what can i do to help take down this website?
January 23rd, 2012 6:02 pm
Just out of curiosity if I was to like a persons page on abouteveryone would I notify that person that someone had liked a page linked to them
January 23rd, 2012 9:52 pm
I’m just enquiring if I hit the like button on a persons abouteveryone page do they get a notification as I have like a few pages and it comes up on my newsfeed so was wondering if the person the Page was about gets a notification that someone has like a page their linked to????
January 25th, 2012 9:26 pm
hey anyone can tell me how will they get to know if we put comments about then here ????
February 1st, 2012 8:53 pm
This website is awfull. The lies and malicious things being said are absurd. I cannot find how to remove my profile. Can anyone please help with this.
In today’s society where both children and adults are taking their own lives, due to malicious slander is growing at an alarming rate, you would think that sites like this should not be allowed to exist.