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Tony Seruga may or may not be legit, but the "Ripoff Report" may or may not be either.

RIP OFF REPORT owner Ed Magedson charged with RICO - Racketeering in Phoenix Federal

Racketeering Charges Filed! Conspiracy and Racketeering (RICO) proceedings as well as claims for defamation and invasion of privacy are being issued against Ed Magedson owner or RIP OFF REPORT and Bad Business Bureau - under a Federal Court in Phoenix Arizona. The warrant has been issued against Rip Off Report, Bad Business Bureau - owner Ed Magedson for the operation including the sites: ripoffreport.com, badbusinessbureau.com, and a number of countless other “consumer advocate” sites being orchestrated by the extortion consortium. Ed Magedson operates his illegal extortion scam under the guise of “consumer advocacy” sites - to force innocent companies into paying him to take down his dirty posts. Currently 28 Attorney Generals and 17 Federal Prosecutors throughout the U.S. are pursuing Ed Magedson and the rip off report. Known to draft court service notices since 1992 (long before he started this extortion operation), rewards of up to $50,000 have been offered for his whereabouts. If you do a key word search under “Ed Magedson” you will see his shady past.

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…”Phoenix Federal”… Phoenix Federal - what? Why doesn’t it say Phoenix Federal Court?

That’s a website called Scam.com and gives no specific info about legal action. I searched and found no record of any past, pending or current federal action taken against Ripoff Report or its owner. I found one example of a state lawsuit in which RR had to pony up a little over $14k in attorney fees to the plaintiff, in 2023.

I intended to post the following to myself, since looking into Seruga yielded more information.

There appear to be numerous complaints at Ripoff Report on this putz, describing how he and his associates scammed people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in California over fifteen years ago. This link shows nine.

https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/specific_search/seruga

And for today’s dose of irony….

Earlier this year Seruga made claims via his X account about Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. One America News - OAN - published it. They had to retract it because Cohen apparently sued OAN for defamation and won.

Article about OAN’s retraction:

https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2024/04/29/san-diegos-oan-retracts-story-about-michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-affair/

FR post about Seruga’s original claim, and linking the original (false) OAN article:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4227327/posts

Tony Seruga is a highly regarded X (Twitter) political pundit. Seruga, who has over 78,000 followers, also claims to be an “Intel Ops CIA/NSA Contractor and Whistleblower” in his profile.

Nope.

What’s really going on here is probably that they’re using this guy as an agent of chaos. Meaning he’s out there making outlandish and outright false claims, while sounding like he has insider knowledge. All pasted on top of his (apparent) dubious personal history.

There were two other FR posts using Seruga’s information as gospel - on November 16 and 17, 2023. One post starts out:

My partners and I have been lifetime data scientists. We own the digital ID of every mobile device/computer in the U.S. and have indexed and archived every IP address in the world. Our extensive experience in big and deep data, including geotracking and geolocation makes our dozens of data companies the top authority for providing data to corporations, law enforcement and U.S. government agencies like the CIA, NSA, DoD, DIA, NGA, NRO, FBI, as well as Interpol and foreign intelligence organizations.

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The guy’s a walking train wreck. On purpose.