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This story starts with DNF; a barren wasteland that once was a leading forum within the domain industry. While the forum itself played a huge role in propagating the myth that is Adam Dicker, the story really begins with DNF College in the summer of 2011.

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From what I understand, Adam still owes north of $33,000 to previous customers and business partners. As I receive more information, I will update this figure.
 
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Interesting discussion about the mugshots.com extortion racket mentioning Adam Dicker, and discussing use of Paypal for those mugshot removal sites, found at:
http://www.kcsr.org/archive/index.php/t-125790-p-7.html

They point out that Paypal's acceptable use policy ( https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full ) exludes products that
(h) items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction,
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4. involve the sales of products or services identified by government agencies to have a high likelihood of being fraudulent.


Paypal has a special facility to report infringement - for example someone selling you content copied/stolen from elsewhere:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article/?solutionId=FAQ561&topicID=&m=ARA
 
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I had been given a warning for discrepancy in my whois ownership of the domains I am promoting here after pug tried to cast doubts on my character. How many people actually checked the whois of my domains that my whois are proper or improper, but how many people just believed whatever pug said I'm a questionable person without checking with me?

The warning given to me has been retracted. No reason given though. What is important is my whois has always been proper. But some people here will have an otherwise impression of me now just because of reading what Pug said. Who's going to take this responsibility?

Actually this would be my fault. I'm the one who reported your thread to a mod based on whoisology.com data that I thought was accurate. I didn't realize until after sending in the report that the whoisology data wasn't recent data that they were reporting and was based on data from August. My mistake.

See...http://imgur.com/a/thtpd/all I should of looked more closely at the screen and saw all the data they were reporting was from August, not from October. Sorry. I do apologize.
 
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Also found at http://www.kcsr.org/archive/index.php/t-125790-p-7.html :
I found it interesting listening to this interview with a mugshot removal owner that PayPal was no longer going to process payments for him. He is Adam Dicker. He has a company that processes payments to unpublish mugshots from Mugshots.com. Adam has a reputation of his own. Read about his experience while at GoDaddy (do a Google search).

www.unpublishmugshots.com/ - his removal site

Online Reputation Repair: Seizing a New Business Opportunity – With Adam Dicker www.domainsherpa.com/reputation-repair/

Why exactly is PayPal stopping payment processing for him? Could it be that they are aware of the exposure? Listen to him talk about how much money moves through PayPal. And, PayPal does not want it?

Not surprisingly, and ironically, he has a site called A$$holes.com where you can complain. Very convenient for a mugshot removal company and Reputation Management company. They can have it removed. His properties create the problem and then they solve it for you.

Adam Dicker still owns A$$holes.com today but it is parked on Sedo. Funny, formerly the live site was showcasing complaints from people who paid for websites and did not get them, and complaints of services not as described:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120508194822/http://assholes.com/
 

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I'll have to take responsibility for not fact checking and relying on secondhand information.

Unless Sir Drago fancies plucking up the courage to admit another mistake.

I actually told Sir Drago about the Jin-Sin thing via pm. So the info came from my own error. lol
 
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I think the threwd should remaij open based on the latest developments.
 
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Also really interesting to read the TOS/disclaimer on Dicker's assholes .com consumer complaints site - he was willing to post anything and refuse to remove it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120508205920/http://assholes.com/disclaimer

Disclaimer
HIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY THE OWNER OF Assholes.com ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. THE OWNER OF Assholes.com MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE.

THE OWNER OF Assholes.com DOES NOT EDIT ANY OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE SITE.
These materials are provided by the owner of Assholes.com as a service to its website visitors and may be used for information purposes only. The owner of Assholes.com assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in these materials. The owner of Assholes.com makes no commitment to update the information contained herein. The owner of Assholes.com makes no, and expressly disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the Assholes.com website, including without limitation the accuracy, completeness or reliability of text, graphics, links and other items accessed from or via this server or the Internet. No advice or information given by the owner of Assholes.com, his affiliates or their respective employees, agents or independent contractors shall create any warranty.

In addition, the owner of Assholes.com cannot control and cannot edit content provided by a third neither party, nor does the owner of Assholes.com attempt to edit the content of the reports posted on Assholes.com. Third party postings are not reviewed for truth or accuracy and do not represent the views, opinion, beliefs, or statements of the owner of Assholes.com, its members, its representatives, its employees and its independent contractors. The owner of Assholes.com reserves the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.
Under no circumstances shall the owner of Assholes.com or any of its affiliates, respective partners, officers, directors, employees, subsidiaries, agents or parents be held liable for any damages, whether incidental, direct, indirect, special or consequential and including without limitation, lost revenues or lost profits arising from or in connection with the posting or use of the information on this server.
 
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A few hours ago I thought I'd attracted the attentions of a notorious criminal called Stanley Pace, an anonymous Asian with multiple identities, and a potential serious sex offender. All of that has turned out to be complete BS and even if turned out true was not the slightest bit constructive or relevant to my issue (or non-issue), or anybody else's issue with Adam Dicker.
Yes, SirDrago PM'ed me as well and asked if I knew MasterOfMyDomains name. I didn't and he than told me he thought he was Stanley Pace, which startled me as well. I didn't think it was true though as Stanley/Max is in incarcerated, but for some reason he really thought it was him and he had escaped jail I guess but our minds have a funny way of connecting dots that aren't there. There was no clear evidence pointing them as being the same person. I'm not sure how he connected the two, but he really thought it was true.

I'm the one who PM'ed Sir Drago about Jin-Sin based on the whoisology data which I should of looked more into that turned out to be inaccurate. I do apologize for that.
 
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Guys, can you please stay focused on the AD scandal instead of each other? The value of this thread is waning due to all the off topic meta chatter. If your next post is not about AD, stop yourself and use PM instead to communicate with the person(s) you are seeking to influence. I for one simply want AD or his attorney to refund me my money for the worst website development experience in my 20+ years on the Web. What a waste of time and money this has been. It's infuriating to have dealt with a man of apparently such limited integrity. At this point, I just want my money back and to move on.
 
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...this thread is looking like it's deteriorating into a regular Lord Of The Flies scenario...
 
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Does it really make a difference who the letter was directed at?

I think it does matter, Shane. Because if people got the letter who have no claim, then it was sent because of what was posted on the thread separately from those who are owed money by Adam.

And before someone asks me why I'm so interested, it's because this is an open thread on a public forum I've joined. My interest may be academic to a degree (no pun intended) but issues like this have great relevance to the activities on the wider net, and therefore to all of us who use it. :)
 
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I think it does matter, Shane. Because if people got the letter who have no claim, then it was sent because of what was posted on the thread separately from those who are owed money by Adam.

And before someone asks me why I'm so interested, it's because this is an open thread on a public forum I've joined. My interest may be academic to a degree (no pun intended) but issues like this have great relevance to the activities on the wider net, and therefore to all of us who use it. :)

The letter was not directed towards me.

Although, Pug is not owed money and received the same letter.
 
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Is truth a defense to defamation claims?
Yes. Truth is an absolute defense to a defamation claim.

Yes, but the problem is what truth are you referring to? The 'truth' that Adam Dicker has behaved in an unbusiness-like manner that has caused a lot of misery to other business (or would-be) business people, and that he owes them money he needs to repay, or the 'truth' that he is a criminal? He came on the thread asking people to contact him at a given email if they had a claim, so the first part he seems to be accepting as truth (without quotes). I think it's the second 'truth' that is the nub of the matter.
 
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I for one simply want AD or his attorney to refund me my money for the worst website development experience in my 20+ years on the Web. What a waste of time and money this has been. It's infuriating to have dealt with a man of apparently such limited integrity. At this point, I just want my money back and to move on.

Why didn't you do a chargeback with your bank or credit card? or file a paypal claim?
 
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Paypal has a special facility to report infringement - for example someone selling you content copied/stolen from elsewhere:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article/?solutionId=FAQ561&topicID=&m=ARA

Someone reported earlier that many - if not all - sites built by nichewebsites.com contain articles copied from ezinearticles.com, without retaining the required links and attribution to ezinearticles. You can check your site at copyscape.com. That means all those sites are infringing copyright, have grounds for a Paypal refund, and if paid for via Paypal the seller should be reported to Paypal's infringement facility (above) even long past any chargeback date.

Also in the Wordpress Dashboard make sure Dicker no longer has a user account on your nichewebsites.com website, and change your own user password so he cannot log in and change stuff - which he did to someone in this thread. And make sure he has no access to the hosting account.

Do those copied articles contain the links and attributions required by the EzineArticles.com TOS?

http://ezinearticles.com/terms-of-service.html


Unauthorised use of copyright images on sites installed by nichewebsites.com may be a lot harder for the site owner to detect and the penalties far more costly - relentless four figure+ bills from people like Getty Images are a fact of life. For more info see earlier post:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/is-adam-dicker-a-criminal-you-decide.883579/page-81#post-5055052

Guys, can you please stay focused on the AD scandal instead of each other? The value of this thread is .
Very important point, thanks.

Random abstract discussion, confusion, anger, accusations and ill will are what the suspected bots tend to provoke (they do follow certain patterns and are repetitive, such as trying to re-start discussions of whether the term "criminal" is appropriate or suggesting there is some sort of witch hunt or hating) and sometimes they succeed if you let them. It is best to ignore the bait - stick to the facts.
 
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I just skimmed through many of the claimants reports again and none of them indicate they've done a paypal claim or a chargeback, besides lonewolf.

You can do a chargeback if...
  • The transaction was not authorised by you, or put through more than once
  • The supplier did not deliver the goods or services you paid for
  • The goods were delivered to you but were faulty or not as described
You will most likely have to show proof these are true. For chargebacks there is a time frame of 120 days (U.S.) and 180 days (International). You have 4-6 months to do a chargeback but many banks and issuing credit card companies may extend this time frame depending on the situation. Call your bank or credit card issuer and talk with a representative!

Warning: If you do a chargeback and used paypal to send Adam money, they may close your account, so you should file a paypal claim first to see what paypal says. If paypal doesn't find the claim to be valid or in your favor you can still do a chargeback with your bank or credit card to get your money back, but paypal will most likely close your account if you do that. You can get a new bank account with a new credit card and open up a new paypal account in the future.

Has anyone been succesful with doing a paypal claim or chargeback against Adam?
 
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The value of this thread is waning due to all the off topic meta chatter.

Not to mention beginning to fling accusations of wrong-doing at one another now, as with Jen-Sin and MasterOfMyDomains. Sort of weakens the thread's case against Adam Dicker as a criminal, imo. :)

Oh, wait. There's a red under my bed!
 
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And ty wendy. Go vees
And shane. Cattabis will be big
 
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Stop derailing the thread. This isn't about any of you. You're burying the important posts with crap. Create your own thread for your useless ramblings and arguments.
 
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any money been paid. I think the next business day will be productive
 
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It was about me pork chop remember my being shamed last night. Answer peoples questions or it will start to bother you
Do you remember telling jeff markus you would slap the sh1t
out of him at namescon other shane
 
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Stop derailing the thread. This isn't about any of you. You're burying the important posts with crap. Create your own thread for your useless ramblings and arguments.
Sorry. That was the first time I lost it.
 
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I will be banned from this thread soon. But i am gona start my own
Let the war begin you said yesterday shane.
Abdul your humour is what shane is talking about. Mods why wasnt that comment deleted like 100's maybe 1000 others?
 
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I hope jeff markus does to you , what you said you would do to him
 
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Apologise to your superior
1000's of comments are off topic
Pm sent to eric lyons 24 hours ago
Looking for reply. He was around to edit/ unedit jen-sin thread and my posts since
 
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