I have a google alert set up for my name, and I think everyone should do the same - i get a few each week, and they're usually innocuous little caches of tweets or reposts of articles, or about other Tom Geraghty's, however, I got one today that shocked me, a little.
There's a website, hosted in Arizona USA, that purports to be a kind of consumer review / warning web site, where people can post about bad service they've received or when they feel they've been crossed by someone they paid to do something.
So, I was a little surprised to see that someone has reported me on there for taking a deposit and then not doing the work (website design). I've never worked in the US, never worked on the type of project they describe, and never take deposits for web design work anyway. It''s either a blatantly malicious post, by someone who doesn't like me (I can't think who, though. I'm a lovely person to know!), or, and this is more likely - it's extortion. I've sent them an email requesting they take down the content, and requesting the identity and/or IP address of the original poster, but I suspect that I'll hear back that they'll take it down for some "admin fee".
I'll update when and if I hear anything. I'm considering going to the police, but I don't want to waste their time on something so trivial. If i do get asked for money, of course, I'll go straight to the police then.
If anyone has any tips, or advice on how to get it taken down, I'd be very grateful.
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