![]() ![]() Ellis, the owner of, would neither confirm nor deny his use of the automated takedown tool. That end of the business, he said, was handled by a partner, who was not available to be interviewed. asked RemoveSlander's Jacques if it's true he's paying $19.90 for his $399 service. By its own count, RemoveSlander has removed more than 300 mug shots. Of the $399 that Cabibi paid to RemoveSlander, $19.90 would have wound up with the mug-shot site that exposed him in the first place, and $379.10 with the company that promised to "fight" for him. The reputation companies, though, appear to be doing pretty well. >'The business model seems to be to generate embarrassment and then remove the source of the embarrassment for a fee.' The bulk of 's income comes from advertising, not mug-shot removal fees, he said, declining to otherwise discuss his revenue. He appears content to let those companies take the lion's share of the mug-shot removal profits. ![]() Wiggen said about 750 mugs have been removed from since he launched the site last year – some of them he took down himself in response to e-mail requests, but most were performed by reputation-management firms like RemoveSlander. tried the interface independently, and for $19.90 we removed the mugshot of a randomly chosen misdemeanor defendant, which disappeared from the site inside 10 minutes. ![]() RemoveSlander "presses a button and makes a payment, and my website handles it automatically," Wiggen said. Joe Ellis, the operator of, said his method is "proprietary," but that he's used it to get "hundreds" of mugs removed at $129 each. The site often enjoys advertising right on Wiggen's site through Google's algorithm-driven AdSense program. Other sites offering the same service are also closed-mouthed about their methods. There is a tremendous amount of work to get the photos down." "It can't happen by magic," he said in a telephone interview. RemoveSlander's owner, Tyronne Jacques – the author of How to Fight Google and Win! – said the removal fee pays for his crack legal team to deal with, and to force Google to get the URL removed from Google's search index.Īsked how he accomplishes that, Jacques told it was "a trade secret." A recent press release from the company called the work " daunting." We have perfected the art of fighting mug-shot websites."įor $399, RemoveSlander promises to take that fight to, and force Wiggen to remove a mug shot. "Every time someone clicks on your page to view your mug shots, sites like Florida Arrests earns a little more cash from Google. "Even defendants whose cases were dismissed are finding their mugs hot on the internet," the company's website adds. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. ![]()
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