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FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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chet.matrine wrote:This is an excellent report, and I think you for providing it to the community.

Whenever I evaluate marketing promotions services for my kickstarter campaign, I will be sure to read your reports and posts first before I make the hire.

FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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chet.matrine wrote:This is an excellent report, and I think you for providing it to the community.

Whenever I evaluate marketing promotions services for my kickstarter campaign, I will be sure to read your reports and posts first before I make the hire.

FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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danishlatif853 wrote:How can they keep getting away with this??

Is there nothing we as a community can do besides make reports on the forum? We need to unite and take action. These false companies are such a bad thing against us. If there were no scams all of our projects would succeed in their marketing, I am sure of it.

FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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danishlatif853 wrote:How can they keep getting away with this??

Is there nothing we as a community can do besides make reports on the forum? We need to unite and take action. These false companies are such a bad thing against us. If there were no scams all of our projects would succeed in their marketing, I am sure of it.

FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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mike420blazed247 wrote:I'll fight them with you. Here is what we need to do:

1. report them to their web host for web spam

If 20 of us do that, they will begin to take us seriously.

2. report them to the google search engine for web spam. Again 20 of us must do this in order for a report to be taken seriously.

3. most importantly, we all need to report them to kickstarter, every single day for up to a month. Eventually kickstarter will do a blog post about how they need to be avoided and that will shut them down once and for all.

BEWARE THIS SCAM.

Who is with me?

FRAUDWATCHMAN wrote:I've attached an image of the agency in question. I did a quick search using my usual channels and a few things of interest came up. Summary of my fraud assessment risk:

* Domain trust score 2/5, Alexa rank of 8,546,229
* No ripoff reports (that could be found)
* No reviews online anywhere!

Their domain was registered in 2014, and having an utter lack of track record online indicates that they do not do good work, or else they would have reviews. My assessment is that this is a high risk company if you choose to go with them. Reviews are a must if you are an active company, and not having any reviews is inexcusable.

One thing to consider is that although the crowd pr angles domain is old, this could actually be a new scam. Many times the whois info does not show the most recent registry for the domain, it will actually show the old one. So what we may be seeing here is a brand new website targeting crowdfunding campaigns.

If you want to look further into these guys, I recommend you check out the guides below and follow the steps that they have outlined. Following is a few articles I have found helpful in identifying scams. Once you learn the basic principles in the articles, you will be well on your way to avoid being scammed. The principles are not hard to master, and the more you practice them, the better you get at them. My personal beliefs are that one must first master the principles before they launch a campaign. You will be flooded with emails from agencies, and if you don't know how to separate the real from the fake, you will waste most of your budget on services that don't produce results.

New Balance has a wonderful guide on how to avoid scams, although it's more directed at backers you can apply the same principles to agencies, see it here:
https://www.thebalance.com/how-to-avoid-scams-and-fraud-in-crowdfunding-985179

Business Insider also has a useful guide on how to do a crowdfunding campaign, there is a small section that goes over picking the right marketing partner, see it here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-ensure-a-lucrative-crowdfunding-campaign-2014-8?r=US&IR=T&IR=T

Last, Consumer Reports has a good step by step guide on how to avoid being scammed, read it here: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/money/crowdfunding-scam

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