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Approximately 3 months ago, I was a member of www.tagged.com

I had created a profile based on sense of humour. Shortly after creating it I received threats from a member belonging to the group SCAM BUSTERS (www.tagged.com/scambusters) and a site called pigbusters (www.pigbusters.net).

The threat said that my profile was fake/had fake friends and that it will be reported to tagged administration.

Since I set up this profile with NO ill intent, I was surprised at this! More so I was surprised that the reason of the threat was that because it included a friend who supposedly had many fake sites! I happened to be messaging this friend and he never indicated that he had such activities!

Low and behold, the next day I received a message from [protected]@tagged.com notifying me that they had deleted my account.

I was very surprised at this and immediately thought that this member had reported my profile and tagged.com deleted my account without investigating the matter! In my profile I had information that could have proved that my account was innocent. Even if my friend was indeed a faker, how am I supposed to know who is a fake or not? Tagged, in my opinion is full of scams and spam which makes you wonder about their real activity.

Pigbusters's website suggest that its supported by donations and also charges $9.95 for a support call service (http://www.pigbusters.net/CallCenter.htm), and for having email accounts with them.

In an email to tagged, I asked them why they had deleted my account and their reply was:

Hello,

Your account was removed as spam. We will not reinstate it.

Sincerely,

Tagged
Customer Support

I then sent them the following email:

Hello,

That is a big surprise as I never sent any spam! Did you check if my profile was cloned or hacked prior to making your decision? If not can you please forward me the spam message/s that I am alleged to have sent?

Thank you

I never received a reply!

CONCLUSION

I had joined pigbusters briefly to gather more information and from what I found, I have reasons to believe that tagged.com allows members of pigbusters to promote their website through comments they place on tagged.com and even have tags designed by them with the word "pigbsuters" . If one reads tagged terms and policies this is against their own regulations. Since tagged.com never investigated the reports against my profile I am lead to believe that they give Pigbusters an authority to regulate their site.

I find the action from both tagged.com and Pigbusters to be highly unethical if not illegal.

I am able to send more proof to support my complaint.

Thank you

Regards

OL

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Ivonne Huertas Torres
, US
Oct 22, 2018 12:22 pm EDT

I was wondering if this was your profile or someone pretending to be your company. Is been sending friend request and I am sure that is not your style. I eill appreciate if you can reply to Ihuertas1966@yahoo.com. What logo you are using if you are in FB?

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Diane Sieligowski
, US
Feb 20, 2016 10:10 pm EST

My name and Pictures are being used on pig busters my profile and my information. I was not aware of this, they are taking my in formation and profile to scam other people. I f I am not on the right site can you advise me as to where I can go.

Information I obtain is:
Date April 12, 2013 Time 5:00 PM
ID #565084
Location" Nigeria
Email being used is" JeffGilbert55@yahoo.com

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jjjalexo
, US
Jan 31, 2016 2:23 pm EST

It still baffles me though, that after 2 months, no pigbusters representative on here have addressed/debunked the complaints of Reviewer72444 and Reviewer91608 on this forum taking into notice every single complaints made on here overtime has been tackled by @pingpongball, @loveroflife442 and @SWEETAZMAPLE71 . is it that carol_556 complaints are legit or what? are pigbusters representative not viewing Reviewer72444 and Reviewer91608 complaints? are they just shying away from the truth? millions of reviewers including me are waiting to hear what pigbusters has to say. Till then, fingers crossed.

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aurora77
, MY
Jan 11, 2016 9:30 pm EST

Data base of Scammer
Use name : Melvin J Aaron
Claim address : No.7 Proiry house lower cross st spring boroughs Northampton NN 1 2 SG
United Kingdom
Phone number : +[protected]
Email address : melvinaron1961@gmail.com
Date of birth : 02 February 1966
Relationship status: Widowed
Religion : Catholic
Job admit : International contractor which recently have contract with Petronal build 2 petrol
Gas station and 1 renovation petrol gas at Bangkok.

I am single father survival with one beautiful daughter which now study at Rusia.
I lost her mom in a car accident in Ohio United state. That was 6years ago .After the death of my late wife life have up and low, for now I have never dated any one and I have been hopping for some one that was the reason why I contacted you on that site because it have always be my intention to have a date with someone like you

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Carol_556
, US
Oct 21, 2015 9:52 am EDT

THE REAL SCAMMERS ARE THE PIGBUSTERS.
I first heard about a website called pig busters in 2010. Although it claimed it was founded on July 4th, 2008, it has been around even before then. I was fascinated by the team’s dexterity in clamping down online romance scam and this led me to join the pig busters’ team.
After working with them deeply over years, I left because THE KNOWN REAL TERRORISTS’ FINANCIER AND SCAMMERS ARE THE PIG BUSTERS.
Pig busters started out as background fake profiles creator on dating websites which included Tagged. I’m sure you all know about Tseng of Tagged and his child porn case.
Tagged has over 80 percent fake female profiles. 30 percent overall fake profiles are created by Pig busters. It might have increased as at today. Well, I bet you don’t know that. You wouldn’t have believed that about Ashley Madison too, not until recently the hackers and former employee also exposed them, making waves for new analysis to reveal over 99 percent of their women profile to be fake.
With these fake profiles generated by Jeff Hoffman and his pig busters/ Scam busters team on Tagged and all other dating and social media sites, they were and still swindling millions of dollars of hard earned monies to finance terrorism with their partners in Africa, Middle East and over the world. One of the owners of the largest bogus profiles online/ dating sites as at today is Pig busters team coupled with all the fake profiles on their personal dating website ‘you’reittoday dot com’. I created hundreds of them while with the team.
After public outcry about high scam rate and bogus profiles on Tagged, Pig busters came into public scene not as fake profiles generator this time but as fake profiles fighter and online scam police in a strategic ploy to trick the public and already fed up users of Tagged in a bid to keep their continual effort in perpetually scamming, eating deep the economy and victimizing lonely hearts especially women seeking true love online.
Jeff Hoffman with his scam busters team reportedly started the website in a show of defense after he was arrested for conspiring and working with terrorists and scammers in Africa and beyond by initiating, cashing fake checks and wiring monies to them all over the world. He is one out of the thousands of contacts these terrorists and swindlers have in the states. Well, he lives in Texas.
Pig busters team work by telling you to report to them email address you suspect to be scam. You do that and in couple of hours/days, they post their findings and also the real face of the scammers. Wow, that’s magical I can hear an internet novice say. But it’s simple. After giving them the email address, they troll social media mostly facebook, twitter etal as they believe all social media with an hit of the email you enlisted with them with African, black and non-white is automatically the real scammer especially if his/her location is Ghana, Cameroon, Malaysia or Nigeria. But if not that, they continually harass the profile owner. The Internet police you call them!
Moreover, if the email address doesn’t exist on any social media, they go another step ahead by creating profile on several dating websites that doesn’t send a confirmation link to emails. When this is done, Pig busters post the alleged profile as the scammer’s profile on their website. And in the process of that, it violates Intellectual Property right of the victim as his/her pictures and info are hijacked randomly in creating the alleged profile in order to further indulge in their criminal actions. All these are cover up ploys for their dastardly act of scam and terrorism.
Cloning of profiles is a common practice by pig busters. They create a similar profile to yours, tagged it as a scammer profile. They even go ahead to add your friends, impersonate you, demand monies, paint you bad all in efforts to continually libel you. Have you ever sent monies to any of your supposed stranded or distressed friends? You just fell victim of pig buster’s tactics in supporting scam and terrorism.
Extortion for picture removal is also the Pig buster’s style of raking in more monies for their illicit acts. They tell you to contact them after stealing your content including pictures online and then publish on their site without your consent as the true copyright holder. After contacting them, they demand you pay $9+ with promise of telling you where all your pictures are being used by scammers. They already created profiles with your pictures and just after you pay, they take down and send you the links of where they (pig busters) have been messing with your intellectual properties. Months after, your pictures get listed on their site again and when you again contact them, they demand for more monies to take it down .There are many search engines like Google- image search and tin-eye to track contents and even pictures online and then file a DMCA. Then you wonder, why demand monies from copyright owners? To fund their cohorts around the world and to continually victimize innocent people.

Defamation and Libel of many innocent people mostly outside the states is also the norm. I created hundreds of fake profiles on PIGBUSTERS website using male and female pictures stolen online of Africans. It’s believed Africans are easily believed as scammers and good for business. Go daddy, who was hosting them, can attest to DMCA notices they received about pig busters not until recently their webhost name was hidden. This is because it will be hard for people to get their stolen content removed except they pay them. But I guess the site is hosted by Unified Layer. Unified Layer is a reseller of hosting services from Hostgator. File for DMCA takedown and don’t let pig busters rip you off. And you can still file a lawsuit against them which you will comfortably win.
There is a cycle trend pig busters follow to operate: create fake profiles online, catfish, scam victims, publish the fake profiles they created even on their site, continually scam victims by telling them to pay for their content/pictures removal and defame the helpless Africans, Indians to mention a few, they steal their pictures. Well, many other countries IPs are blocked from viewing the site. Majority of them doesn’t know their pictures are on there. Popular music artists, Doctors, Teachers etc in other countries are listed by Pig busters. When your website content doesn’t violate the law, then why hide who is hosting you? Busted.
Its business and a win situation for them as their main objectives are to get innocent peoples’ funds, fund their partners in crime and terrorists all over the world. Don’t put up with the pigs.
BEWARE OF JEFF HOFFMAN AND THE SCAMMERS CALLED PIG BUSTERS.

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loveroflife442
Mississauga, CA
Jun 15, 2015 4:48 pm EDT
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well said comeback pigbusters! BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO

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SWEETAZMAPLE71
Toronto, CA
Dec 04, 2011 6:01 am EST

you can try to tell everyone that u just did it for a joke but scambusters ( i am head admin) and pigbusters are both eqipt to find out by your isp in a matter of min, , , if you are in maylaisa or ghanna or nigeria we will know that, , , and if you were using a model pic it would be a fake, , , , , as for threats 10-1 it came from me yes i may have told you i hope you drive down a rivie and die a painful death or the food you buy u choke on it or i hope your house goes up in flames, , , , yes that would come from me .
as for the stats 519 million $$$$ was send by ppl in the usa alone to nigeria that was reported, , this is a big money and they romance the butts off and when you tell them NO they get pissy and make threats and ppl are not scamified enough to realize if u don't see them on cam and if you do make sure u ask them to pick there nose or stand up or scratch there head and see if they do have the same cloths on, , , and if u never talk with them personally on the phone THEY ARE NOT REAL
and yes i am bitter and i want them all the scammers to die and go to hell, , , my scammer sent me fake cheques they were stopped at custums and i was arrested and charged and after 6 weeks they were dropped but i had to pay a lawyer ruined my kids christmas i delivered my son early and so on, , , , i hate scammers and they should get a real job insted of playing with ppls hearts and minds

now thats the truth, , , next time dude don't use fake ### pictures and u wouldn't be threatened

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Loraine57
Everett, US
May 15, 2010 12:04 am EDT
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We have a lot of people that come on tagged that the picture they use for the profile turn out to be fake that are stolen off of modeling sites and like you said your friend he has a lot of site he put fake picture he has stolen to go after older single women I am one of these women who has been target out by your friend just to lie and get money out off us .Tagged started out to be for the kids to have a place to chat not it been taken over by everyone a lot of the guy that we know by the way they write to us there story are all a like that how the women can tell if your real or a fake I had on guy that could not make up his mine if he was 59, 45, 49 and he had to difference name he was suppose to be Greek now have you ever seen a Greek with Blond hair before he looked more Dutch . My Congressman told me to go on line to check out over sea romance .com you can fine a lot of the picture on there that where stolen it tell you what site it was stole from if we see a picture that we know is a fake you will be reported to tagged sorry there had to be a reason someone reported you to tagged .

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