Investigation Around Gripeo.com and www.skepticfiles.org - Scammer, Fraud, Theft, Fake DMCA Submission

Investigation Around Gripeo.com and www.skepticfiles.org - Scammer, Fraud, Theft, Extortion



GripeO.com Investigation for Fraud, Impersonation and Perjury – Fake Copyright Takedown Scam


GripeO was an online complaint portal based in Buffalo, New York which allowed consumer users to submit feedback for businesses.

Based on our last investigation around defaulters.com and defrauders.com , we found that gripeo.com and skepticfiles.com also related to each other.

www.skepticfiles.org and gripeo.com is operated by the same admin as they share same social media accounts.

When we clicked on social media account of  skepticfiles.org we redirected to facebook page of gripeo .i.e - https://www.facebook.com/CriticalGrid


When we investigate around gripeo.com in google we found they are basically a extortion website, they ask hefty amount for the deletion, if you want to remove the post from there website you have to pay huge amount..

Some reddit links are there which shows there true face . -https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/q7ln90/gripeocom_scam/ , they ask for 8k USD for the deletion of single post from the website . 

Gripeo.com and skepticfiles.org main business is to extract the money from small business they just put the fake and negative reviews around your business and ask money which is around 5,000-8000 USD to delete the same.

There are several complaints in google for the gripeo.com which states that they are extortion website and they also involve is stealing the content from other websites.

Complaints for GripeO.com Scam 


Futher we found a best webpage which states some founder of Gripeo.com - https://tracxn.com/d/companies/gripeo.com

GripeO Founders
  1. Michael Klanac aka Mike Klanac, Co-Founder & CEO 
  2. Mark Taylor, Co-Founder & Developer - Profile
  3. Jim Proulx, Co-founder - Profile , Comparably

GripeO Investors Name according to the website Tracxn
  1. Z80 Labs
  2. Seed Sumo

GripeO developed a relationship Z80 Labs Technology Incubator, co-managed by two venture capitalists. In December 2014, GripeO closed a $200,000 seed funding round, with funds arising from Z80 Labs and Angel investors. [Source]


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Our investigation is on the way there are many website which is directly or indirectly connected to defaulters.com or defrauders.com like www.skepticfiles.org.

As we said earlier defaulters.com, defrauders.com involve in the activity for submission of fake and bogus DMCA to remove negative post of gcg asia scam , similarly foxonlaw.com is also involve in the same scam to hide the negativity of gcg asia scam.

We have found to more websites which is also linked to defrauders.com or foxonlaw.com In next update you will get the whole story around them.

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This complaint and/or review was posted on our website on 6 June, 2022 and is a permanent record located here

It may not be copied without the written permission. This investigation on defaulters.com and defrauders.com  is submitted and written by one of our members. Any and all opinions and information are published as it is. We do not edit or remove any aspect of the report and is merely a free-speech platform. 


Here are some of the outcomes and changes we made possible with the help of several other citizen lawyers and agencies –

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